Senior Strategic Analyst - Spend Management

Who We Are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations, and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system. Combined with industry-leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

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About the Role:

As a Senior Strategic Analyst, you will be part of the core spend management team, building out and growing Motive’s financial product division. You will be working extensively on quantitative problems in the risk and fraud space. You will be charged as the analytics thought leader and expected to drive insights through the organization. You will partner closely with both the Product, Engineering, as well as Data Science teams. We are seeking strong team players who thrive on innovation and continuous improvement.

You will be joining a new team driving the creation of our new products to support our more than 100k customers. Your contributions will directly feed into our decision-making on how to grow the product.

What You’ll Do:

• Own risk and fraud analytics in Motive’s financial products division.
• Perform deep-dive analysis to share with leadership, identifying risk and fraud opportunities.
• Manage the roadmap for the team.
• Collaborate with the data science team on model improvements and adjustments.
• Mentor more junior analysts.

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field, e.g., Computer Science, Math, Economics, or Statistics.
• 8+ years of experience in quantitative analysis.
• Advanced working knowledge of Python and SQL, fluent in data analysis and mining tools.
• Experience in quantitative risk or fraud analysis and understanding of financial concepts involved in understanding customer risk.
• Strong quantitative reasoning skills.
• Business problem-solving skills: the candidate should be able to clearly articulate the business problem and solution in simple terms.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

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