Statistician, PayPal (Bay Area)

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We are seeking talented professionals who thrive in a fast paced, exciting environment, and want to constantly improve a service used by millions each month.

Primary Job Responsibilities

The Business Risk Analytics group is responsible for evaluating and strategically recommending how PayPal can leverage its disruptive risk expertise to fuel global customer growth by proactively managing the impact of fraud on PayPal and its customers.

The Group achieves this through four related functions that are focused on evaluating the fraud impact on PayPal, as well as its Buyers and Sellers:

• Collaboratively frame, understand and measure the flow and downstream impact of fraudulent transactions through the entire risk workflow, and provide constructive, positive, analytical feedback on optimization opportunities.
• Identify and evaluate the nature and modus operandi of different fraud types, track their evolution, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Identify key business drivers of fraud, actively evaluate their real-time evolution, and recommend high ROI policy and product changes.
• Work with the Risk Consulting group and business units to understand and evaluate the risk impact of new initiatives, and pro-actively track their roll-outs to ensure that the fraud impact and related business drivers are managed to projected expectations.

The group is currently seeking a high energy, driven, collaborative team member that brings extensive statistical experience. The primary responsibilities of this individual will be to:

• Extract, compile, and run statistical analyses on multi-dimensional data, and identify key parameters and sensitive variables of interest.
• Dissect, break-down, and solve complex problems using statistical methods.
• Lead in understanding the correlations between business and product initiatives, and the resulting fraud impact.
• Provide statistical insight and to the relevance of a multitude of data to solve a specific problem.
• Time-series analysis tests to identify seasonality trends, the significance of fluctuations, and any phase-shifted responses.

The opportunity requires:

• high and engaging energy
• a keen business sense with the ability to quickly evaluate the business impact of new and existing initiatives,
• a hunger to dive into deep analyses to understand the driving forces behind growing or dwindling numbers
• a good knowledge of PayPal’s and eBay’s consumer’s needs,
• translate analytical results into relevant information and actionable recommendations.
• oversee monthly tracking reports, interpret data trends, and recommend opportunities for improvement

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in a Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Finance, Industrial organization, Economics, or Applied Sciences (e.g. Mathematics & Physics) is preferred.
• MBA or equivalent experience is a strong plus.
• 4 years of experience in a highly statistical, quantitative, and metrics driven area (preferably in a business environment).
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Very strong command of Excel, SAS, SQL, and Teradata.
• Domestic travel of 5-6 days per quarter.

Education: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent

PayPal Careers Offer:

• Competitive salary & benefits
• Exciting, high-profile product
• Outstanding career and growth opportunities
• Energetic, team-oriented atmosphere

To apply for this position, please visit our Careers Site at
http://www.paypal.com/html/paypal_jobs.html. To begin the application process, enter the Job Number 14028BR into the Requisition Number search field and select submit. You can now begin applying for the position.

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