**Digital Risk Decision Scientist- Santa Ana, 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? Then it's time to join Western Union as our next Digital Risk Decision Scientist.**Western Union powers your pursuit.**We are looking for someone who would be part of the Decision Sciences team responsible for managing fraud losses while optimizing revenue opportunities for Western Union digital transactions.**Role Responsibilities**- Design and implement risk models to screen online transactions and stop fraudulent ones, analyzing online transaction activity to identify loss reduction opportunities and devise actionable plans to exploit such opportunities.- Conduct ad-hoc/exploratory analysis and provide accurate results in response to internal and external requests.- Manage multiple projects and data requests in a timely manner.- Support Senior/Staff Risk Scientists with ad-hoc analysis in response to internal and external requests- Develop champion/challenger test practices, including post-implementation and monitoring to results.- Most of your time will be spent working on solutions to critical problems, querying databases, and performing various analytic/statistical techniques.**Role Requirements**- Data Scientist degree or in a similar field such as Economics, Statistics, or Math.- 2 years of experience in Data Analytics and Machine Learning.- It's required to have a working knowledge of statistical analysis tools like R, SQL, and Python.- Experience and knowledge using Power BI will help you to outstand in this role.- High English proficiency C1+ to communicate across a broad spectrum of stakeholders.- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.- Strong communication skills to convey fraud insight- Ability to analyze problems and produce a justification to enhance fraud decisions.**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 fewLI-YVI
