What are the responsibilities and job description for the Fraud Risk Analyst position at Best Buy?
Fraud Risk Analyst
As the Fraud Risk Analyst, you will analyze transactions for fraud attacks and support mitigation strategies. You will use large datasets to create or optimize rules, and will discern appropriate departmental tools, data sources, and analytical methods to implement changes. You will implement changes within a complex logical platform. You will seek opportunities to improve performance of various strategies and services and facilitate projects & relationships with other teams & vendors. You will support testing efforts and be responsible for troubleshooting internal triage issues.
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work some days on-site at the Best Buy Corporate Campus in Richfield, MN and some days virtually from home. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
What you’ll do
Basic qualifications
Preferred qualifications
What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
As the Fraud Risk Analyst, you will analyze transactions for fraud attacks and support mitigation strategies. You will use large datasets to create or optimize rules, and will discern appropriate departmental tools, data sources, and analytical methods to implement changes. You will implement changes within a complex logical platform. You will seek opportunities to improve performance of various strategies and services and facilitate projects & relationships with other teams & vendors. You will support testing efforts and be responsible for troubleshooting internal triage issues.
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work some days on-site at the Best Buy Corporate Campus in Richfield, MN and some days virtually from home. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
What you’ll do
- Exploratory Data Analysis on large scale user and transactional data, identifying patterns and key insights.
- Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of existing fraud detection rules/models and optimize where appropriate.
- Educate and guide operations teams in mitigating emerging threats, as well as understanding technical changes to the fraud platform and other systems.
- Optimize ML workflows using Kubeflow Pipelines/Vertex AI to streamline and automate end-to-end machine learning processes, from feature generation and model training to evaluation and inference.
- Utilize statistical data analysis techniques/hypothesis testing to document and develop data analysis methodologies and formulate quantitative signals.
Basic qualifications
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- 2 years- Working knowledge of SQL
- 2 years - Data Mining, Machine Learning, Statistical Analysis and Data Visualization
- 2 years - Demonstrated results for maximizing profitability while protecting the customer experience
Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field or equivalent work experience
- Python: numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, Keras
- TensorFlow for ML; Hugging Face, LangChain for LLMs
- R: R Studio, RShiny, ggplot, plotly, dplyr
- Cloud: Google Cloud Platform – BigQuery, DataPrep
What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Physical and mental well-being support
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.