Data Scientist – Fraud

🕒 July 29

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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🏦 Banking

Fintech • Banking • Payments

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa's all-in-one financial ecosystem that provides seamless solutions in payments, banking, credit, and business management for over 10 million businesses and individuals. Operating as Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer, Moniepoint powers the majority of Point of Sale (POS) transactions in the country. The company processes $17 billion monthly while ensuring profitable operations. With operations starting in 2019, Moniepoint continues to support businesses through its comprehensive financial services platform, making significant strides in financial inclusion across emerging markets.

📋 Description

• Prototype, evaluate, and help produce machine learning models for fraud detection • Own ongoing model monitoring and retraining cycles • Design and run experiments measuring fraud-intervention impact while balancing customer experience and loss reduction • Size fraud typologies across product lines to inform prioritization and investment decisions • Build and maintain anomaly detection systems to identify novel fraud vectors before they scale • Collaborate with fraud operations, engineers, product managers, and data analysts to translate model outputs into real-world mitigations • Develop production-grade ML models and detection systems protecting customers and merchants • Support product prioritization and strategic investment decisions through fraud analysis

🎯 Requirements

• Strong foundation in statistics with a degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar) • 3+ years of experience in data science, decision science, or risk analytics within fraud, payments, or financial crime • Hands-on experience building and deploying machine learning models in a production environment • Fraud, risk, or financial services experience is a strong plus • Solid grounding in experimentation, statistical inference, model evaluation, and feature engineering • Proficiency in Python and SQL • Comfort working across the full model development lifecycle • Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders and translate insights into action • Comfort working in fast-paced, cross-functional teams with high ownership expectations

🏖️ Benefits

• Pension • Health insurance • Annual bonus • Attractive salary • Learning and development-focused environment • Knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks • People-first culture prioritizing team-member well-being • Inclusive environment and equal opportunity commitment

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