Technical Fraud Analyst

About Airtm:

Airtm exists because money in Latin America is broken. It constantly loses its value making it difficult for people to preserve their wealth and to participate in the global economy.

Our mission is to free Latin America´s money by giving everyone in the region a globally connected dollar account. With Airtm anyone can save spend send and receive dollars as if they were in the United States More than two million have already signed up for financial freedom. With your help building and operating our Controllership and Financial Operations functions we will be able to give financial freedom to another 98 million.

About the Role:

The fraud team participates in several projects and helps build out the Financial Crime Compliance function at Airtm. The analyst conducts investigations of potentially fraudulent activity.

The Financial Crime Compliance team is a second line function that works to mitigate risks related to financial crimes and criminal actors. The team partners with the business teams to ensure that the controls that Airtm has in place are sufficient to mitigate the financial crime risk the customer base and product offerings pose.

What you’ll be responsible for:

-Performs data analysis to determine fraud trends.

-Use data analysis to propose policy or procedure changes to management.

-Develop reports of fraud data and trends for management.

-Maintain fraud systems by keeping rules and configurations up to date.

-Test new rules and configurations in fraud system and measures impact of change.

-Apply critical thinking skills to recognize patterns trends and inconsistencies within transactional and customer data to detect prevent mitigate and report potentially suspicious activity.

-Understand complex issues customer risks and financial risks associated with fraudulent activity financial crimes or other legal and reputational risks.

-Monitor analyze and prevent fraud through the user’s transactional behavior.

-Stay current with fraud trends patterns and typologies as well as laws and regulations.

Experience skills & stack required:

-Strong data analytics and extraction skills.

-SQL skills.

-Expert Excel/Spreadsheets skills.

-Working knowledge of several fraud systems.

-Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

-Excellent analytical problem solving and organizational skills.

-Detailed oriented and strong prioritization skills.

-Ability to be a self-starter

-Fluency in English (also Spanish is desirable)