Data Analyst - Risk

Data Analyst - Risk. The rear view mirror. 

As Data Analyst - Risk you will help to ensure that machine learning models and other safeguards used to protect SumUp continue to align with a good customer experience. Risk Analytics forms the backbone of our business. As Data Analyst - Risk, you will be responsible for providing analytics not only to our tribe but also to the Risk Platform’s customers across the entire organisation. Using your proven track record of success in a similar environment, together with your team you will build a roadmap and strategy, setting a vision for the Risk Analytics function at Sumup and drive execution according to this vision.

In the role of Data Analyst - Risk you will be analyzing structured data (risk, transaction risk, account security, form models, account take over) and use the outcome of this analysis to advise the business, supporting Data Scientists and Product Teams by creating model-based decision strategies to generate “bottom-line” business benefits through the optimization of product offers and related experiences across all platforms.

Your objective lies in making sure that the rest of the company is well informed and able to use Risk data to generate actionable insights empowering our business partners to produce optimal customer experiences through innovations in data-driven decision making.

What you’ll do:

• Contribute to building data insights to help the team take the right decision, enabling good and stopping bad in all our checkpoints 
• Support planning and prioritization processes by providing data driven value estimation of competing initiatives
• Suggest and be able to take decisions on how to find and obtain the required data 
• Building dashboard with key KPIs, metrics and performance indicators
• Liaise between Product, Business and Data Science teams to ensure that business requirements are understood and prioritised 
• Provide thought leadership on how we present data and how we can improve

You’ll be great for this role if you have:

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in analytics, with at least 2 of those years in product or product-adjacent analytics 
• Experience in the risk domain would be beneficial
• Payment industry experience (highly desired) 
• Clear and efficient communication, coupled with evident enthusiasm for leading a team and helping people grow
• Ability to operate on a cross organsational level with multiple business and technical stakeholders
• Demonstration of advanced SQL ability; Python or R knowledge is a plus
• Experience building dashboards using tools such as PowerBI, Tableau or similar

Why you should join SumUp

• Help build a world class risk platform using the latest technologies and industry practices 
• You will be part of a global analytics community, with opportunities for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and ongoing training & development.
• Work remote in Poland or hybrid in Warsaw, just let us know what works for you.
• A dedicated annual Learning & Development budget (2000 EUR/year) for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education.
• Enrolment onto our virtual stock ownership program - you will own a stake in SumUp’s future success. 
• The opportunity to work on large scale FinTech products used by millions of businesses around the world.
• Sport Card membership and Online Fitness Classes
• Private Medical Insurance for you and your family
• You’ll attend global off-sites and/or hackathons

About SumUp

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SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.

SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate

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