Trustly
Fast, simple and secure online banking payments
Risk Decision Scientist
Location
United States
Posted
71 days ago
Salary
$175K - $195K / year
Seniority
Senior
Bachelor Degree3 yrs expEnglishPythonSQLTableau
Job Description
• Own the end-to-end design, maintenance, and continuous optimization of risk strategy frameworks, decision policies, and rules to meet ambitious business and loss goals.
• Use advanced analytics, SQL, Python, and statistical methods to solve complex problems, discover emerging risk trends, and inform high-impact decisions across the company.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, and Risk Operations to translate business needs into scalable, data-driven strategies and ensure successful execution.
• Drive the development, maintenance, and refinement of risk strategy frameworks and complex rules to achieve ambitious business goals.
• Detect anomalies and evolving fraud trends, write risk rules targeting fraud patterns, and closely monitor the solution performance.
• Present strategies, findings, and recommendations to merchants and internal leadership, translating advanced ACH, risk, and fraud concepts into clear narratives that drive confidence, alignment, and action.
• Master large volumes of data; extract and manipulate large datasets using standard tools such as SQL and Python.
• Develop flexible performance dashboards and monitoring tools using platforms like Quicksight to provide clear, actionable insights to a variety of audiences and senior leaders.
• Plan and measure experiments (A/B and multivariate tests) to analyze the incremental value of new intelligence feeds and transform test results into actionable business insights.
Job Requirements
- Minimum of 3+ years of experience in fraud or credit risk strategy within the fintech, e-commerce, or online payments industry.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python, with a strong ability to work with large, complex datasets.
- Experience with analytical visualization tools such as Tableau, QuickSight, Mode, or Looker is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics or an equivalent quantitative field (e.g., economics, finance, engineering, exact sciences).
- Demonstrated ability to use statistics and data science to solve complex, ambiguous problems and drive data-driven decisions.
- Experience building and deploying rules or automated monitoring; familiarity with fraud patterns such as Account Takeover (ATO), stolen credentials, NSF/ACH risk, or knowledge of the U.S. banking ecosystem.
- Able to turn complex analytics into simple, compelling stories for both technical and business audiences.
- Prior experience in payments risk, ACH, bank transfers, or real-time payments ecosystems.
- Strong product instincts - ability to influence roadmap, not just analyze data.
- Prior experience in high-growth, ambiguous startup environments where structure needed to be built.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off & generous PTO accrual plans
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and other insurances
- FSA & HSA plans for medical and dependent care
- Home office set-up allowance
- Internet stipend
- Retirement plan match for 401k and RRSP
- Gender-neutral paid parental leave, and more!
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