Data Analyst - Risk Management and Monitoring (Colombia)

Data Analyst - Risk Management and Monitoring

About Sezzle:

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

Compensation

Sezzle is a remote U.S.-based company listed on NASDAQ. Our salary ranges are as follows:

• $2,000 - $6,600 USD gross per month (Based on experience and performance during the process)

Position 

We are seeking a talented and motivated   Data Analyst  who is best in class with a high IQ plus a high EQ. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.

As a Data Analyst at Sezzle, you will play a crucial role in identifying, defining, and tracking key risk indicators to enhance our solutions' performance and safety. You will collaborate closely with Credit Risk, Fraud Risk, Product, Support, Compliance, and Marketing teams to understand their solutions and contribute to the seamless integration of risk controls. Your analytical expertise will help drive the continuous optimization of monitoring metrics, alert systems, and reporting processes, ensuring our stakeholders (Credit and Fraud Risk Teams) have actionable insights to make informed decisions. 

What You'll Do: 

• Collaborative Insight Development: Work closely with cross-functional teams to gain a deep understanding of each solution and its potential impact on Credit and Fraud Risk indicators.
• Metric Definition and Dashboard Creation: Define critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for monitoring and build comprehensive dashboards to ensure visibility across relevant metrics.
• Proactive Risk Monitoring: Establish effective alert mechanisms, optimizing them to reduce false negatives and minimize false positives, ensuring rapid and reliable response to emerging risks.
• Data Visualization and Communication: Design clear, compelling visualizations and interpret analytics results for stakeholders, enabling timely, data-driven decision-making across departments.
• Continuous Improvement: Regularly evaluate and refine monitoring approaches to adapt to evolving risks, business objectives, and stakeholder needs.

Minimum Requirements: 

• Degree in statistics, math, actuarial science, economics, data science, computer science or related quantitative discipline
• 4+ years of professional experience working with data, which can include: complex dataset creation, reporting, profiling, or machine learning
• Expert in using SQL to extract data and create actionable data sets -Critical 
• Experience with Python for data processing and analytics
• Ability to complete analyses with minimal guidance
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Redash, SAS VA, Tableau, Looker,  Power BI or other data analytics and reporting tools
• Comfortable making impactful decisions in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment, able to pivot quickly to new priorities
• Attention to detail and ability to multitask
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong business judgment and communication skills (both verbal and in writing)
• Fluent in English (C1 or above)

Preferred Knowledge and Skills: 

• Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline
• Experience optimizing operational and financial performance

The Tech You’ll Work With:

• Redshift, PostgreSQL
• Python
• Data build tool (dbt)
• AWS, G Suite, Mac

About You:

• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome:

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators. We believe in surrounding ourselves with only the best and the brightest individuals. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. 

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