Fraud Risk Analytics Lead

At Riverty, we believe that everyone should be in control of their own financial situation. Our shared commitment is to make financial solutions more innovative, empathetic and user-friendly to empower financial growth for everyone. To do this, we rely on 50 years of experience and the commitment of over 5,000 creative minds, innovators and explorers in 11 countries.

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As part of our community, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and transform the world of finance together with us. We create an environment where you can evolve personally and benefit from our flexible working conditions and work-life balance.

Everything we do, starts with you. Together with you, we build the most human-centric fintech. To enable everyone’s future financial growth.

We are looking for a

**Fraud Risk Analytics Lead**

(unlimited, full-time) Join our team at our Berlin, Verl, Amsterdam, or Heerenveen locations - flexible working conditions are available.

We are looking for a lead for our Fraud Risk steering team with a strong analytical attitude that is keen to impact our risk assessment by mitigating risk in terms of affordability/fraud for the external end customer in a balanced risk decision environment. The focus of the team lies in defining our fraud risk strategy, its (further) development, and the constant monitoring and steering according to it. In line with the company's overarching vision to become the most human-centric FinTech, the Risk Analytics team develops appropriate customer risk strategies for different markets and ecosystems. The organization is characterized by technology-based rapid learning and decision-making cycles and guided by a strong common purpose to jointly create value for all stakeholders. Strong DACH/NL & Nordics footprint with further expansion ambition within Europe & UK.

**What will be the main challenge in the role**:
In this role you will lead the Fraud Risk Steering team and collaborate closely with other functions such as Risk Product (RPS), Solvency Risk Steering, Risk Analytics, Finance, Sales, and Operations. Daily, your responsibilities would be:

- Leading and establishing a high-performing team of Fraud risk experts in an international setup
- Ensuring that the team uses industry-standard analytics tools and performs data-driven decisions to identify and prevent fraud patterns
- Coordinate with the review team to optimize risk prevention and control evaluation.
- Play a key role in implementing the AI-based models to optimize fraud prevention mechanisms further.
- Representing the Fraud Risk Steering team in key projects, handling the responsibility of projects for Fraud steering-related analytics and implementation.

**What you need to succeed in the role**:

- A proven track record working in Fraud Risk Management, ideally within the BNPL industry or in the fast-growing payment industry
- 4+ years of experience in leading (cross-border) teams in a relevant area (e.g., fraud risk analytics)
- Experience in successfully enabling machine learning models for fraud prevention purposes.
- Expertise in using various programming languages like SQL (mandatory) or Python and R (nice to have) to perform complex analytical tasks
- You embrace new technology and understand the potential of data and advanced analytics
- You are a strategic thinker with vision and a strong operator - you get things done
- You are fluent in English, German or Dutch would be a huge plus

**Benefits**:

- **Mobile Office**: Opportunity to work from home
- **Discounts & Extras**: Exclusive Bertelsmann discounts and financial benefits, e.g., €1,500 referral bonus
- **Flexible Working Hours and Models**: Customize your working hours to suit your needs
- **Training & Development**: A variety of (online) courses, from language learning to leadership training, e.g., from Bertelsmann University
- **Health & Leisure**: Supported sports and (mental) health programs, e.g. from our partner TELUS Health
- **Appreciative Environment**: Diversity and employee networks enrich our culture

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