Fraud Prevention Lead (Forensics Team) - Africa at dLocal

Level: Mid-Senior

Description
What’s the opportunity?:

• We are looking for an experienced Fraud Prevention Analyst who will be in charge of leading the anti-fraud strategy in African in order to maximize approval rates and maintain fraud control.
• This team will focus on non card fraud (bank transfer, ticket purchase, cellphone transfers, etc.) for all African countries where Dlocal has presence.

Responsibilities
What will I be doing?:

• Work with the commercial/operations team in identifying and understanding the risk areas of different payment methods by country.
• Create the "fraud mark" for non-card payment methods.
• Responsible for the prevention and detection of potential fraud across the payment channels
• Guide the team of fraud analysts to build the fraud prevention strategy and deploy it in production using current or new features, variables and third party providers
• Identify fraud patterns by continuous review of previous fraud and monitor current traffic to have an early warning in case of an attack
• Analyze new databases to improve the amount of relevant data provided.
• Contribute to the creation of fraud rules by providing analytical data to support decisions
• Recommend improvements to the fraud prevention strategy and processes.
• Identify system improvements to prevent fraudulent activities.

Requirements
What skills do I need?:

• Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Engineering, Statistics, or related fields.
• + 3 years of experience in Fraud Prevention in a related team with focus in payments
• Experience manipulating and exploring large databases, SQL is a must and other languages like python are a plus.
• Strong Analytical Skills and passionate for discovering new patterns.
• Enthusiastic, Proactive, team player & problem solver.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Open to candidates from Nigeria,Kenya or South Africa.