PwC Middle East

Deals, Forensics - Financial Crime - Associate / Senior Associate – Amman

Location
Amman
Salary
Not disclosed
Posted
31 May 2023
Closes
30 Jun 2023
Ref
408341WD
Approved employers
Approved employer
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
Experience level
Qualified accountant

Description

Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 8,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Our regional team operates across the Middle East bringing international experience delivered within the context of the region and its culture. We can bring the collective knowledge and experience of more than 328,000 people across the entire global PwC network in advisory, assurance and tax to help you find the value you are looking for.

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, we are investing in our Execution Managed Services (EMS) business. Which has two roles, Fraud Surveillance Analyst and Anti-Fraud Data Analyst. EMS brings the best of PwC’s advisory capabilities and our operational delivery to help clients solve complex problems. Our Financial Crime team is a critical part of this growth priority area and we are looking for motivated individuals who have a desire/interest to support our clients in delivering some of their most critical operations and programmes.

Our EMS team will work with cutting edge technology to provide specialist and complex services to our clients across the region.

Roles and responsibilities for Fraud Surveillance Analyst:

  • Analyse the transactional fraud alerts utilizing various fraud tools to detect and prevent fraudulent activity and accounts
  • Assist with internal and external fraud reviews
  • Advise relevant department to undertake actions on potential fraudulent transactions, account and disputed transactions
  • Subject matter experience in fraud prevention and detection typologies
  • Develop investigation reports with outcome and remediation plan
  • Provide recommendations to implement fraud alerts and relevant controls

Experience and Skills:

  • 3 to 4 years’ experience in fraud surveillance and/or transaction monitoring
  • Able to work under pressure
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office and Access
  • Demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
  • Ability to speak and understand Arabic and English fluently.
  • Flexibility to work shifts.
  • Willing to travel

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Roles and responsibilities for Anti-Fraud Data Analyst:

  • Perform analysis on various data set using advanced data analytics techniques to identify fraud related trends, patterns, scenarios and other valuable business insights
  • Use SQL to perform extract, transformation and load for analysis and retrieval purposes
  • Design interactive and informative dashboard using data visualization tools such as Tableau and PowerBI
  • Design and implement data models for data integrity, quality control and validation controls
  • Design, implement and tune data models using statistical analysis and machine learning to identify fraud typologies (payment fraud, identity theft and account takeover)
  • Identify opportunities to enhance and optimize the existing process, report, transformation to improve the speed and efficiency
  • Collaborate closely with client to understand their business requirements related to fraud analysis
  • Continuous monitor the threat landscape by producing actionable recommendation supported with data

Experience and skills:

  • 3 to 4 years of experience as a Data Analytics Consultant or similar role.
  • Expertise in Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, SQL
  • Solid understanding in data modeling concepts and techniques.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complex data into meaningful insights.
  • Familiarity with other data analytics tools, programming languages, or statistical software is a plus
  • Demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
  • Ability to speak and understand Arabic and English fluently.
  • Flexibility to work shifts.
  • Willing to travel

Education:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field.

Travel Requirements

Up to 80%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Yes

Government Clearance Required?

No

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