Senior Data Analyst Job at Info Way Solutions in California

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Overview

Role: Senior Data Analyst with Finance and Payment

Type: Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Work with minimal supervision.
• Mentor junior analysts.
• Lead small projects or analyses from start to finish.
• Translate data findings into actionable business recommendations.

Analytics / Data Science

The core of the job is problem-solving with data.

• Analysis: Defining metrics, building reports, monitoring trends, performing root-cause analysis (e.g., "Why did fraud spike last Tuesday?").
• Data Science (Predictive): Building models (likely in Python) to predict fraud risk (e.g., ML models for transaction scoring). The 20% Python suggests maintaining or improving existing models, not necessarily building new ones from scratch.

Risk

Deep understanding of financial risk, specifically:

• Fraud: First-party (friendly) fraud, third-party fraud, account takeover.
• Credit Risk: If the role involves lending or buy-now-pay-later products.
• Compliance: AML (Anti-Money Laundering), KYC (Know Your Customer) regulations.
• Payment Strategy: Decline analysis, false positives, optimizing acceptance rates.

Payment

Industry-specific knowledge is critical. You must understand:

• The payment flow: authorization, authentication, settlement.

Finance

Understanding the financial impact of your work. You need to calculate:

• Cost of fraud (lost merchandise + fees).
• ROI of fraud prevention tools.
• The balance between reducing fraud and negatively impacting good customer sales (false positives).

Technical Skills

SQL - 80%

• Advanced SQL: Complex joins, CTEs, window functions (RANK, LAG), query optimization.
• Data Extraction: Pulling large, clean datasets for analysis.
• Dashboarding: Building core reports and dashboards (likely in Tableau, Looker, Mode, etc.) for the team.

Python - 20%

• Used for more advanced analysis beyond SQL's capabilities.
• Use Cases: Building logistic regression models, random forests, or gradient boosting for risk scoring. Performing cohort analysis or network analysis.

Communication

The most important "soft skill." You must bridge the gap between technical data and business decisions.

• To Stakeholders: Explain complex risk concepts and data findings to non-technical leaders (e.g., Heads of Product, Finance, CRO).
• To Engineers: Clearly define requirements for new data tracking or fraud rule implementation.
• Documentation: Writing clear summaries of your analysis and recommendations.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting

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