Product Manager Fraud Detection at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Join the CIB Fraud team as a Product Manager Fraud Detection and Monitoring. In this role you will be accountable for managing an inhouse fraud detection and monitoring platform with the aim of detecting fraud threats in real time to ensure minimal fraud impact to customers. You will also ensure that the strategic approach is aligned to the Pan African requirements of the organisation. The role involves analysing the market in order to develop the platform capability across products and economic crime types. You will be a critical role player in the economic crime convergence efforts of the organisation

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Deliver a data and insights led detection platform that aligns to and enables business and customer strategies for fraud detection.
• Adjust capability parameters to ensure better fraud detection or transaction blocking and minimise false positives.
• Use data science competency to produce accurate and relevant fraud detection results.
• Create and run machine learning models and create metrics and use cases for machine learning model use.
• Stakeholder Management: Engagement with various Group stakeholders across Business, Technology and Fraud teams to ensure effective monitoring of fraud risks and that fraud alerts are managed accordingly.
• Coach, mentor and manage team members toward driving business objectives and ensuring colleague development.
• Driving and setting the respective business budgets and implementation of measurements to monitor performance against targets.

Education And Experience Required

• Experience in a similar environment and exposure to fraud detection and monitoring solutions and platforms
• Managing projects and resources
• Delivery alignment across multiple Planning Increments and Sprints
• Management experience
• 6 years’ experience in a technical delivery role, preferably in the financial industry
• Change Management experience: Agile methodology
• Bachelor Honours Degree
• B-degree - Computer Science degree

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)