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 120,000 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.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

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 financial products division.
  • Perform deepdive analysis to share with leadership, identifying risk and fraud opportunities
  • Manage roadmap for the team
  • Collaborate with 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
  • 10+ years experience in quantitative analysis 
  • Python and SQL, advanced working knowledge, and fluent in data analysis and mining tools.
  • Quantitative risk or fraud analysis and understanding of financial concepts involved in understanding customer risk.
  • Strong quantitative reasoning skills
  • Business problem solving- Candidate should be able to clearly articulate the business problem and solution in simple terms

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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The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. 

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