Threat Detection & Enforcement Analyst

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Brief info about Vinted

Vinted Marketplace is the largest online international C2C marketplace in Europe dedicated to second-hand fashion, with millions of registered members spanning 22 markets in Europe and North America. With a mission to make second-hand the first choice worldwide, Vinted enables people to sell and buy second-hand clothes and lifestyle items from each other, helping give those items a second or even third life.

The Vinted Group, composed of Vinted Marketplace and Vinted Go, is headquartered in Vilnius, with workplaces in Germany, Lithuania, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and over 2,000 employees. It is backed by six leading venture capital firms: Accel, Burda Principal Investments, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sprints Capital.

Information about the position

The Safety Intelligence team plays a crucial role in safeguarding the platform by swiftly and adeptly addressing complex scam cases across the company. Equipped with strong technical skills, the team handles large volumes of user, item, and transaction data to detect and analyse anomalies and malicious patterns. By conducting both qualitative and quantitative analyses, the team uncovers insightful trends to perform high confidence sanctioning at scale, and provides recommendations on how to mitigate scams at their root cause.

In this position, you’ll

• Independently perform SQL data analysis to identify malicious activities and initiate mitigation. Be able to explain the rationale for restriction and the trade-off between risk and confidence.
• Using SQL and other analysis tools, perform complex and high volume samples checks to ensure accuracy of internally developed detection tools, mitigation accuracy, when needed create instructions for this process handover to other stakeholders
• Proactively monitor KPIs to spot emerging anomalies or malicious patterns. Explain major trends and provide qualitative examples
• Independently develop informative Looker dashboards for monitoring and reporting of anomalies and malicious patterns. Provide concise and informative summaries of key trends and its impact
• Proactively create insightful reports clearly depicting complex malicious patterns (attacker, vector, and victim) and proposing domain-wide or company-wide recommendations for resolution
• Collaborate with Product teams to ensure that identified malicious patterns are sufficiently addressed or product vulnerabilities are fixed
• Drive KPI setting process and proactively proposes new metrics and targets

About you

• At least 2 years of experience in investigating malicious activity patterns (e.g.: scam, phishing, account take-over, offensive content, financial crimes, AML, etc.) and handling complex cases
• Proficiency in SQL and data analysis, performing complex data manipulation, queries, and creating insightful reports
• Strong analytical skills to provide insights and recommendations based on data (working with BI tools or Excel)
• Proactive approach towards monitoring and analysing trends, identifying risks and opportunities, as well as providing solutions and improvements based on gathered insights for Product teams, operational procedures, policies
• Ability to perform threat intelligence investigations
• Excellent at communicating in English (both written and verbal)

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Newest MacBook models
• Free access to an office gym
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Private health insurance
• On-site canteen serving delicious homemade food at discount prices
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
• A dog-friendly office

Working at Vinted

Individual Learning Budget

Vinted will set aside a yearly sum equal to 10-13.2% of your annual salary to be invested in your continuous professional development. You’ll be able to take the initiative to use it for covering relevant learning activities that benefit your role.

Hybrid Work

We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.

Equal Opportunity

The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.