**Digital Risk Decision Science Manager
- Santa Ana, Costa Rica**
Are you ready to join an advanced team in a global company that customers depend on to prevent fraudulent transactions?
Are you energized by thinking analytically while working with others to tackle problems and improve processes?
Join Western Union Digital Risk Decision Science Manager.
**Motivated by our values: purpose driven, globally minded, and trustworthy & respectful**
We're a FinTech that's using insight from customers and colleagues worldwide to improve financial services for families, small businesses, multinational corporations, and non-profit organizations.
We're a team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories.
We believe when money moves, better things happen.
**Better requires process discipline and simplification**
We'll be looking to you to undertake a key position in ensuring Western Union's preparations and readiness for new General Data Protection Regulation.
You'll be part of the Decision Sciences team responsible for managing fraud losses while optimizing revenue opportunities for Western Union digital transactions and mentoring junior decision scientists.
You will be the strategic organizational leader driving our future direction on Risk Analytics and Modeling in collaboration with the Product Management Team and Risk Engineering Team.
Representing the Decision Sciences team, you'll make a difference by conducting ad-hoc/exploratory analysis and providing accurate results in response to internal and external requests.
You will also be the Champion/ Challenger test practices, including post-implementation monitoring.
To succeed in such a pivotal role, you'll have a Data Scientist degree or at in a similar field, and 5+ years of experience in Fraud and Risk across payment, e-commerce, digital or financial services industries.
It's advantageous to have a working knowledge of statistical analysis tools like R, SQL and Python, and an advanced understanding of Excel.
Previous experience of agile working methodologies is also desirable.
You should be an English High Proficient.
**Join us, and let's connect the world**
We're a company on the move, and we want our people to grow and develop.
You'll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as a great salary and benefits package.