Business Analytics Int Analyst - C11 - PUNE

Citi is seeking an energetic and motivated professional to join the Fraud Analytics team as a Spec Analytics Analyst 1. In this role, you will play a crucial part in preventing financial crime by collaborating with the strategy development team to test, validate, and execute various strategy changes and model deployments. Your primary responsibilities will include a strong understanding of system and user functionalities of various fraud orchestration engines such as Actimize (RCM/Actone), SAS Fraud Manager, Lexis Nexis/Threat Metrix, among others. It is desirable to have business knowledge in financial crime risk management and digital fraud to ensure seamless implementation of fraud rules and various traditional and machine learning model deployments with 100% accuracy. You will be responsible for developing policy rules and fraud strategies, collaborating with teammates to provide feedback on rule performance, trends, and volumes, as well as focusing on developing tactical and strategic solutions with high visibility for key stakeholders. Additionally, you will be involved in gap analysis to identify system weaknesses and actively work to close such gaps, developing and supporting fraud rule performance management tracking, and maximizing the capabilities of decisioning platforms through rule development. Other key responsibilities include conducting BAU-analysis on bad merchants and the manual check process, contributing to organizational initiatives, and working with various stakeholders during strategy development and execution. The ideal candidate should possess a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline, a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in system execution, system testing, and analytics, proficiency in SAS/SQL (Oracle/Teradata), and good programming knowledge. Moreover, the candidate should have experience in model execution and governance in any domain, demonstrable analytic and problem-solving skills, ability to deliver projects in a fast-paced environment, strong communication skills, stakeholder management experience, basic knowledge of reporting and visualization tools like Tableau, and Actimize knowledge. It is preferred to have a background in strategy execution or control, ability to work independently, risk and control mindset, handle large volumes of transactional data, strong project management and organizational skills, and capability to handle multiple tasks and meet deadlines effectively.,