Junior Fraud Analyst, Germany (Remote)

About Sezzle:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose mission is to financially empower young consumers. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a bad credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the thousands of eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle

Responsibilities: 

• Monitor real-time transactions and other customer behaviors flagged for fraud and abuse for manual review.
• Investigate individual transactions using internal policies and review methodologies to determine if the transactions are fraudulent or not.
• Understand our systems and tools; investigate account patterns through data analysis.
• Research fraud and user behavior to contribute to machine learning models, rules and other detection systems.
• Collaborate with analysts, operations specialists, data scientists and engineering to improve our fraud prevention mechanisms, processes and tools.
• Learn and maintain strong domain knowledge of the world of fraud including prevention techniques and technologies.
• Maintain or exceed established service level agreements (SLAs) for timely resolution of queued cases to minimize potential losses.
• Handle escalations from internal and external stakeholders in a professional and efficient manner.

Ideal Skills & Experience: 

• Degree in statistics, math, finance, economics, or related quantitative discipline; graduate degree a plus
• Comfortable working and making impactful decisions in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment
• Attention to detail and ability to multitask
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong business judgment and communication skills

About You: 

• A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle. 
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build. 
• An excellent communicator. 
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things. 
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome?

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Sezzle recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting our mission.

Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

Sezzle does not discriminate against employment candidates on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (the “Protected Characteristics”)