Scientist, Decision Sciences

**Scientist, Decision Sciences - Santa Costa Rica**

Are you energized by analyzing data? Are you ready to join an advanced team in a global company that customers depend on to prevent fraudulent transactions? Are you interested in joining a globally diverse organization where our unique contributions are recognized and celebrated, allowing each of us to thrive Then, it’s time to join Western Union as a Scientist for Decision Sciences.

**Western Union powers your pursuit.**

We are looking for someone responsible of developing real-time and batch risk models to screen online transactions and stop fraudulent ones.

**Role Responsibilities**
- Continuously track and evaluation of the effectiveness of risk models and rules
- Documentation and communication of model results and insights to senior staff in Risk Management.
- Analysis of online transaction activity to identify loss reduction opportunities and devise actionable plans to exploit such opportunities
- Profile customer behavior to identify opportunities to enhance model/rule performance
- Conduct ad-hoc data analysis in response to internal and external analytic requests.

**Role Requirements**
- Bachelor´s degree in a quantitative-related field (Statistics, Math, Operations Research, Engineering, etc.)
- 1+ years of SQL programming experience.
- Problem-solving and analytical skills
- Communication skills to convey fraud insight
- Experience analyzing problems and producing a justification to enhance fraud decisions.
- Working knowledge of statistical analysis tools like Phyton, R, Excel, PowerBI, Tableau, etc.
- Desired but not required: Experience on card purchases risk mitigation.

**We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.**

Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We’re a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

**Benefits**

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few

Your Costa Rica
- specific benefits include:

- Asociación Solidarista
- Paid time off including extended maternity leave
- In house company doctor services
- Continuing Education
- Transportation services options
- Parking spaces
- Hybrid model work
- Flexible Working Schedules if applicable
- Referral Program award
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and committees to volunteer with
- Carpooling Program
- Price Smart membership
- Pan American Medical and Life insurance
- Cafeteria Subsidy

Western Union values in-person collaboration, learning, and ideation whenever possible. We believe this creates value through common ways of working and supports the execution of enterprise objectives which will ultimately help us achieve our strategic goals. By connecting face-to-face, we are better able to learn from our peers, problem-solve together, and innovate.

Our Hybrid Work Model categorizes each role into one of three categories. Western Union has determined the category of this role to be Hybrid. This is defined as a flexible working arrangement that enables employees to divide their time between working from home and working from an office location. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

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Estimated Job Posting End Date:
02-12-2024