TalentBurst, Inc. Looking for Analyst – Digital Payments – Contract at Foster City, CA Full Time

The Global Risk MIS and Analytics team has a simple mission: we turn massive amounts of data into actionable insights that ensure seamless, secure commerce experiences across physical and digital eco-system. Our analytic and data professionals deliver on this mission by implementing data-based solutions, analysis, and insights targeted at maintaining security, reducing fraud rates, and preserving the integrity of the largest payment processing network in the world.

Responsibilities: 
The Analyst – Digital Payments Analytics & Insights role is responsible for supporting the global analytics initiatives which deliver data-driven insights to internal and external stakeholders. Deliverables will include aesthetic and technical assets and regular ad-hoc work for internal executive stakeholders, issuing banks, acquirers, processors, and merchants. Balancing a holistic global view with customized regional delivery is crucial to success. Through collaboration with our client-facing teams and functional leaders, you will bring data and insights to bear, which deliver mutual, tangible value to and our clients through improved payment security.

• Perform in-depth analysis and provide insights on global initiatives and various regional priorities
• Compare client performance against industry best practices; inject new perspectives with a shrewd eye toward identifying performance and profitability improvement opportunities
• Working closely with stakeholders, move the organization from interesting to actionable with recommendations that drive lower fraud rates, more seamless commerce, and improved experiences for players in our eco-system
• Ensure data-driven decision making is a priority for clients, colleagues, and other internal stakeholders
• Translate understanding of company’s products and services into client engagement strategies that yield financial and performance benefits
• Be an expert at getting to the root of a problem, defining business objectives, and formalizing data requirements – especially in a fast-paced, fluid environment
• Support the BI work stream by ensuring data feeds are updated consistently
• Craft meaningful presentations and insights from complex data with content that presents opportunities in an accurate, understandable, and engaging manner

Basic Qualifications:

• 4 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree OR 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) OR 0 years of experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2-3 years of progressive success in roles of increasing responsibility
• 2+ years working in analytics, risk, management consulting, strategic operations, or insight delivery
• 2+ years of global payments experience
• Possess a relentless, client-centric, and result-driven mindset coupled with strong problem-solving skills and an ability to break down complex problems and propose alternative and new ways of thinking
• Big data experience (Hadoop, Hive, Spark), data visualization experience (Tableau), and SQL experience
• Strongly skilled at manipulating and integrating data from a variety of sources
• Strong verbal, written, motivational and interpersonal skills
• Risk operations, risk analytics experience, or similar quantitative business responsibility for financial or operational performance
• A 4-year college degree + advanced quantitative or technical degree

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