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Location

Cambridge, GB

Job Term

Full-Time

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The Opportunity

We are looking for a knowledgeable and energetic Risk Strategy Consultant to join our ever-growing Product Delivery function here at Featurespace, to be based out of our Cambridge office.

Our Risk Strategy Consultants help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customers by taking responsibility for designing and building rules-based solutions within our ARIC Fraud Hub platform to detect and prevent fraudulent behaviour experienced by our customers, and by consulting with our customers’ strategy and analytics users, sharing knowledge and best practices of using the ARIC analytics tools.

 

Day to Day

  • Responsibility for the creation and ownership of customer-specific rule sets, both to support our adaptive behavioral models or as stand-alone solutions for customers in different industries during customer deliveries and once in production
  • Work directly with customers (internal and external) during project delivery to gain a detailed understanding of the customer, system, process, and data – ensuring that their rules, data, and functional requirements are fully extracted, captured, and understood by the Featurespace team, and are subsequently incorporated to deliver an optimal ARIC solution
  • Act as a fraud industry expert – liaise with and coach key stakeholders and customers to ensure joined up approach to fraud prevention and an understanding of underlying trends
  • Own the creation of standard best practice rules aligning to our standard products and data schemas to aid simple, streamlined project deployments to our customers
  • Become an expert using our internal rules language – holding a deep technical understanding of how rules are built and perform efficiently
  • Deliver on-the-job coaching to develop other team members (e.g. design of analysis, problem solving techniques, fraud trends, and prevention techniques)
  • Assist the Featurespace Support and Customer Success teams in handling rules-based customer support queries
  • Support Data Science teams in customer proof of concepts to deeply understand the fraud patterns within historical data sets in order to build efficient rules that complement our models and demonstrate our excellence as a market leader in Adaptive Behavioral Analytics

About you

 

  • Extensive hands-on experience in working within a fraud strategy, analytics, or operations environment – a detailed knowledge of fraud prevention at an international level across varied verticals and payment types
  • Proven ability to analyse complex data, draw meaningful conclusions, and provide clear business recommendations based upon that analysis
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to lead workshops and present to customers and internal stakeholders at all levels
  • Strong ability to engage with different roles with our customer and internal business such as sales, SME, technical, and implementations
  • Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, to meet deadlines and work under pressure
  • Willingness to get stuck in and support your fellow Product Delivery team members and Featurespace colleagues
  • Experience in developing documentation that meets regulatory standards and audit requirements, ability to clearly document and articulate required fraud prevention activities specific to each customer use case
  • Excellent data mining and data manipulation skills, with a proficiency using SQL or similar – this will be validated via an assessment centre
  • Results oriented with the ability to identify the long-term effects of decisions/solutions within customers and the Featurespace business
  • Strong interest in fraud and financial crime
 

Personal Qualities

The work is often challenging and fast paced. We are looking for someone who has the following qualities:

  • Enthusiastic, with a can-do attitude
  • Great teamwork skills
  • Adaptability
  • Professional
  • Goes the extra mile
  • A passion to work for one of the fastest growing fraud prevention technologies in the world

 

And most importantly, a small-company attitude: willingness to adapt to a variable role and a great can-do attitude.

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