Payments Risk Analyst II

About the Role

As a Payments Risk Analyst II on the Payments Risk Analytics team, you'll be fully responsible for identifying and mitigating payments risk on one of Coinbase's critical payment rails without negatively impacting core metrics and the broader customer experience.

What You'll Be Doing

• Identify, investigate and mitigate fraudulent deposit activity.
• Implement logic targeting bad actors and high-risk behavior associated with unauthorized deposit activity across multiple regions.
• Use data to assess risk and make decisions impacting large segments of the customer population; effectively measure and assess associated tradeoffs using quantitative analysis.
• Synthesize data learnings into compelling stories and communicate them to Payments Risk leadership.
• Review and respond to alerts regarding anomalous customer and transaction behavior.
• Measure fraud performance across payment methods, develop core metrics, and create dashboards to track and understand them.
• Proactively identify and close gaps in monitoring.
• Own risk controls from end-to-end and scale processes to provide appropriate coverage as the business expands.
• Own reporting processes and communication with relevant banking partners.
• Work with internal stakeholders in Product, Growth, Data Science and Engineering to develop and drive forward custom risk management strategies and techniques for different geographies.

What We Look For

• 4+ years relevant experience
• 2+ years fighting payments fraud or financial crime

About Coinbase

Coinbase's mission is to increase economic freedom in the world by building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system. While many roles are remote-first, in-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment.