• Application Deadline:
• Position: Fraud Prevention Lead (Forensics Team) - Africa


• Job Type Full Time , Remote


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 3 - 7 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 
  

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.