Sr. Data Scientist

Description

Global Financial Crimes and Customer Protection (GFCCP) is responsible for fulfilling PayPal’s commitment to combat money laundering, terrorism financing, and related financial crimes around the world, including sanctions enforcement. This is achieved through a global network of best-in-class investigators and specialized teams dedicated to the development and implementation of strategic policies, advanced analytics, robust reporting, and cutting-edge technology.

• Dive into extensive datasets, defining and tracking essential KPIs to drive actionable insights for informed business decisions.
• Develop controls and monitoring dashboards to ensure performance against business goal, regulatory requirements, and business priorities.
• Architect and oversee the entire data infrastructure lifecycle, ensuring seamless automation of processes from end to end, ensuring efficiency and accuracy.
• Lead or participate in ad-hoc projects and initiatives related to risk management, operations optimization, leveraging data-driven approaches to address specific business challenges or opportunities.
• Work on assignments of intermediate complexity with minimum supervision and constantly seek improvement within defined tasks.
• Good understanding of general business trends and directions to be able to put own work in a broad business context.
• Drive effective communication with collaborators to achieve the optimal level of decisioning and business results.
• Ability to proactively derive actionable insights from developed solutions to enhance and influence operational decision making.
• 8+ years of experience in analytics and data science with Master’s Degree required in same.
• High proficiency in Big Query, SQL, Python and Excel.
• Expertise in building interactive dashboards using visualization tools like Tableau & PowerBi.
• Highly Proficient in statistics; exhibit critical and analytical thinking, with a focus on problem-solving and attention to detail.
• Experience in leading and delivering end-to-end Business Intelligence Solutions (requirement gathering, analyzing large, multi-dimensional data sets and synthesizing insights into actionable solutions).
• Industry experience in payments, e-commerce, or financial services is an advantage.
• Highly motivated, result-oriented self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. Proven ability to function well independently as well as in a team.
• Strong interpersonal skills including ability to present insights and recommendations persuasively. Skill and confidence in dealing with people at all levels of the organization are essential
• Requires an excellent understanding of standard business practices related to Compliance processes and systems.
• Clear, strategic thinker with vision, with the ability to execute on priorities
• Skilled in translating technical processes for a business audience

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The US national annual pay range for this role is $123,500 to $212,850

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