Head of Risk

About Daraz:

Founded in 2015, Daraz is South Asia’s leading e-commerce platform in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar. It empowers more than 100,000 active sellers with world-class marketplace technology to reach the fast-growing consumer class in a region of 500 million people. Through Daraz Express and Daraz Pay, it operates the most efficient and digitalized logistics and payments infrastructure in its markets. Daraz’ vision is to be a champion of South Asia serving 100 million customers and businesses by 2030

For more information, please visit www.daraz.com.

Job Summary:

Serve as a strategic leader overseeing risk, compliance, and antifraud initiatives, driving the development and implementation of comprehensive governance strategies to safeguard the organization and enable secure, sustainable business growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Liaise with business units to recommend and drive the implementation of anti fraud, compliance, content security, IPR and seller governance strategies and policies that directly and significantly reduce our risk profile.
• Design and collaborate with product, tech and data team to evaluate the efficiency and drive improvement of existing tools, processes, and policies related to fraud/risk management.
• Apply investigational skills to monitor, audit, and analyze potential risk cases and produce root cause analysis reports with value-added risk mitigation suggestions.
• Understand the trends and intelligence of fraudulent activities in each local market and devise smart strategies and build intelligence systems to mitigate fraud; Sense of risk and compliance in overall to reduce risks on company level.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• More than 5 years of related work experience in antifraud, risk management, platform governance or strategy in e-commerce or IT industry desired, with team management experiences.
• Familiarity with risk or compliance in e-commerce field is a strong plus.
• Bachelor's degree from a top university in one of the specializations preferred - engineering, computer science, data science, Information Technology or equivalent.
• Strong data analysis and correlation skills with the ability to work on complex data sets and able to identify different patterns and behaviors.
• Superior organizational skills to manage multiple priorities to tight deadlines and the flexibility to adapt to changing scopes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to successfully negotiate with different stakeholders across various businesses.

 What We Offer:

• International working environment in a start-up setting, and a unique opportunity to learn from the best in e-commerce (Alibaba Group).
• A platform to learn from Alibaba's world-leading ecosystem.
• Rigorous training and exposure in team management, leadership, business analytics, and operations.
• An opportunity to train the next generation of business leaders in the e-commerce industry.
• Competitive salary and incentive package.