Data Analyst – FinCrime

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Zepz

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2021

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

💰 $165M Debt Financing - Zepz on 2025-03

Fintech • B2C

Zepz is a fintech company that operates digital remittance brands (notably WorldRemit and Sendwave) offering fast, secure, mobile-first cross-border money transfer services for consumers. The company emphasizes fair, fast and flexible payments, a world-class customer experience, and global reach — enabling app-based transfers to over 130 countries, with reported volumes of about $10 billion transferred and 50 million customer transactions in 2020 across more than 5,000 corridors. Zepz positions itself as customer-focused and growth-oriented, with hundreds of employees and multiple international offices supporting consumer remittances primarily to regions such as Africa and Asia.

📋 Description

• Play a critical role in detecting, investigating, and preventing illicit financial activity across our global operations. • Leverage large datasets, analyze transactional patterns, and manage system alerts to safeguard the platform. • Develop robust SQL-based models, creating actionable dashboards (Mode/Databricks) to visualize financial crime risks. • Collaborate closely with the Financial Crime Product and Compliance teams to enhance controls, reduce false positives, and ensure adherence to global regulatory standards. • Drive strategic decision-making by collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize business requirements and translate them into actionable dashboards and data-driven insights. • Own and manage capacity planning for Financial Crime Operations, including the creation, reporting, and ongoing analysis of capacity plans versus actuals. • Proactively identify and implement data-led improvements across the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) domain, including transaction monitoring and customer risk rating, by setting targets, assessing performance, and modelling various scenarios. • Communicate complex findings effectively by presenting structured, data-driven results to non-technical business leaders, simplifying technical concepts for clear decision-making. • Demonstrate holistic problem-solving by connecting disparate data sources to uncover underlying business questions and deliver comprehensive solutions. • Exhibit a strong passion for learning and the ability to rapidly adopt new business concepts, analytical techniques, and technologies. • Be an independent, curious, and proactive self-starter who takes initiative to drive projects forward.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, or a related field; • 4+ years experience in data analysis, analytics engineering, and/or data science roles, building data modeling workflows (using dbt, for example, or other data platform tooling) and analyzing large datasets to solve problems; • Expert SQL skills; proficiency in Python preferable; • Strong statistical knowledge; • Expertise in visualization and surfacing insights using a BI platform (e.g. Mode, Tableau, Looker, Power BI, etc.); • Proven ability to manage and deliver on multiple projects with great attention to detail; • Ability to clearly communicate results and drive impact; • Comfortable collaborating across functions to identify data analytics problems and execute solutions with technical rigor and thoughtful analysis.

🏖️ Benefits

• unlimited annual leave • great healthcare benefits • employee discounts