Principal Officer, Fraud Detection and Analytics job at Safaricom Kenya
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Principal Officer, Fraud Detection and Analytics
2025-10-09T11:03:21+00:00
Safaricom Kenya
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FULL_TIME
 
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Telecommunications
Management, Computer & IT
KES
 
MONTH
2025-10-23T17:00:00+00:00
 
Kenya
8

Responsibilities

    • Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
    • Adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.
    Risk Analysis and Audit
    • Practice and collaborate on Risk assessments for products and services with internal stakeholders. 
    • Continuous assessment and evaluation of Fraud control suitability and approach to specific customer fraud risk areas
    • As part of Corporate Security Assurance group, define fraud risk thresholds to govern fraud control performance for products
    • Build and relationships with internal and external stakeholders required for supporting execution of the tasks to manage customer safety and security on fraud. 
    Forensic Reviews and Investigation
    • Execution of Forensic reviews across Business risk areas.
    • Articulate required fraud controls to be inbuilt in products, services and processed with on-time and on-demand analytics to support Agile product development. 
    Data Analytics and Mining
    • Work closely with Data Science teams towards delivery of short to medium term development  of fraud analytics models to address prevention of fraud in GSM, MPESA and new product areas.
    • Provide insights on customer pain areas to address gaps in Product design, processes that expose customers to Fraud.
    • Develop insights on current and emerging customer fraud trends and fraud risk areas into actionable use cases
    • Leverage fully on AI/ML for all Fraud rules to deliver consistent high quality controls
    • Create fraud solution use cases and detailed product roadmap documents to articulate desired
    • features and functionalities of the desired Fraud architecture and functionalities.
    • Track and analyze frontline metrics for Demand
    • Identify gaps and opportunities for addressing triggered and untriggered demand management interventions.
    • Support front line teams with required insights on demand and collaborate on first time resolution of demand.
    Automation, Reporting and Tooling
    • Define risk based automation and reporting requirements for monitoring of fraud solutions KPIs for all products and services. 
    • Deliver continuous insights on Worry Free Initiative to elevate it to a breakthrough  Financial Services Industry innovation
    • Develop and maintain integrated reports within the function to capture well defined performance metrics for rules, AI models and Demand Management. 
    • Work closely with other business stakeholders on reporting unification for Corp Security Demand
    • Develop insights from 24-7 monitoring to drive use cases for automation and controls refresh.
    Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
    • Deepen team connection to our customers and communities.
    • Foster authentic relationships with customers and partners that build trust.
    • Explicitly take customer-centric decisions and take personal ownership to achieve results.
    • Simplify processes through digitalisation and promote a digital mindset and digital first customer experience.
    • Stay focused on the big priorities, know when to make meaningful trade-offs and demonstrate brilliant execution.
    Purpose
    • Create an inspiring vision for your team to drive strategy and performance.
    • Show ambition and courage, empowering others to go beyond the plan.
    • Bold and challenge teams to reimagine how things are done.
    • Prompt new thinking and ideas by asking “what if” questions.
    • Use knowledge of the external environment (customers, partners, competition, external bodies) to identify and act on opportunities for growth at pace.
    Innovation
    • Create psychological safety so everyone can have an impact.
    • Fuel innovative ideas from others and test them to enable growth.
    • Explore successes and failures with curiosity and resilience; fearlessly recognizing lessons learned.
    • Share your ongoing learning and personal purpose with others.
    • Learn fast from digital adoption, using learnings to drive simplicity, scale and efficiency.
    Collaboration
    • Articulate your team’s role in making our strategy happen, prioritizing and aligning resources with current and future needs.
    • Actively collaborate to break silos and hold your team accountable to do the same.
    • Develop others to make the most of their talents and coach them to take ownership to get things done.
    • Create an inclusive environment ensuring the safety and wellbeing of others.
    • Live our Purpose and demonstrate the highest Standard of integrity.
    Qualifications
    • Relevant Degree in Business, Engineering or IT Undergraduate Degree or relevant field along with professional qualifications. 
    • Professional certification in Fraud Examination, Auditing, IT Security, Accounting.
    • Understanding of Agile Methodology.
    • At least 5 years experience in a Telco environment
    • At least 5 years in data analytics environment generating business insights by running long lead, realtime and ad-hoc analysis and have proven experience in a telecoms environment. 
    • Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
    • Ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously with strict deadlines to deliver on commitments
    • Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
    • Possess high professional and ethical standards.
  • Customer Obsession
  • Principal Officer, Fraud Detection and Analytics
  • Uphold the company code of conduct, policies, and procedures to ensure integrity and accountability.
  • Collaborate on Risk assessments and Fraud control strategies.
  • Execute Forensic reviews and develop fraud controls for products and services.
  • Work on Data Analytics models to prevent fraud and address customer pain points.
  • Define risk-based automation and reporting requirements for monitoring fraud solutions.
 
  • Relevant Degree in Business, Engineering, or IT.
  • Professional certification in Fraud Examination, Auditing, IT Security, Accounting.
  • Understanding of Agile Methodology.
  • At least 5 years experience in a Telco environment.
  • Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
bachelor degree
60
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Vacancy title:
Principal Officer, Fraud Detection and Analytics

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Telecommunications, Category: Management, Computer & IT]

Jobs at:
Safaricom Kenya

Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, October 23 2025

Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi | Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, October 9 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Responsibilities

    • Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
    • Adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.
    Risk Analysis and Audit
    • Practice and collaborate on Risk assessments for products and services with internal stakeholders. 
    • Continuous assessment and evaluation of Fraud control suitability and approach to specific customer fraud risk areas
    • As part of Corporate Security Assurance group, define fraud risk thresholds to govern fraud control performance for products
    • Build and relationships with internal and external stakeholders required for supporting execution of the tasks to manage customer safety and security on fraud. 
    Forensic Reviews and Investigation
    • Execution of Forensic reviews across Business risk areas.
    • Articulate required fraud controls to be inbuilt in products, services and processed with on-time and on-demand analytics to support Agile product development. 
    Data Analytics and Mining
    • Work closely with Data Science teams towards delivery of short to medium term development  of fraud analytics models to address prevention of fraud in GSM, MPESA and new product areas.
    • Provide insights on customer pain areas to address gaps in Product design, processes that expose customers to Fraud.
    • Develop insights on current and emerging customer fraud trends and fraud risk areas into actionable use cases
    • Leverage fully on AI/ML for all Fraud rules to deliver consistent high quality controls
    • Create fraud solution use cases and detailed product roadmap documents to articulate desired
    • features and functionalities of the desired Fraud architecture and functionalities.
    • Track and analyze frontline metrics for Demand
    • Identify gaps and opportunities for addressing triggered and untriggered demand management interventions.
    • Support front line teams with required insights on demand and collaborate on first time resolution of demand.
    Automation, Reporting and Tooling
    • Define risk based automation and reporting requirements for monitoring of fraud solutions KPIs for all products and services. 
    • Deliver continuous insights on Worry Free Initiative to elevate it to a breakthrough  Financial Services Industry innovation
    • Develop and maintain integrated reports within the function to capture well defined performance metrics for rules, AI models and Demand Management. 
    • Work closely with other business stakeholders on reporting unification for Corp Security Demand
    • Develop insights from 24-7 monitoring to drive use cases for automation and controls refresh.
    Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
    • Deepen team connection to our customers and communities.
    • Foster authentic relationships with customers and partners that build trust.
    • Explicitly take customer-centric decisions and take personal ownership to achieve results.
    • Simplify processes through digitalisation and promote a digital mindset and digital first customer experience.
    • Stay focused on the big priorities, know when to make meaningful trade-offs and demonstrate brilliant execution.
    Purpose
    • Create an inspiring vision for your team to drive strategy and performance.
    • Show ambition and courage, empowering others to go beyond the plan.
    • Bold and challenge teams to reimagine how things are done.
    • Prompt new thinking and ideas by asking “what if” questions.
    • Use knowledge of the external environment (customers, partners, competition, external bodies) to identify and act on opportunities for growth at pace.
    Innovation
    • Create psychological safety so everyone can have an impact.
    • Fuel innovative ideas from others and test them to enable growth.
    • Explore successes and failures with curiosity and resilience; fearlessly recognizing lessons learned.
    • Share your ongoing learning and personal purpose with others.
    • Learn fast from digital adoption, using learnings to drive simplicity, scale and efficiency.
    Collaboration
    • Articulate your team’s role in making our strategy happen, prioritizing and aligning resources with current and future needs.
    • Actively collaborate to break silos and hold your team accountable to do the same.
    • Develop others to make the most of their talents and coach them to take ownership to get things done.
    • Create an inclusive environment ensuring the safety and wellbeing of others.
    • Live our Purpose and demonstrate the highest Standard of integrity.
    Qualifications
    • Relevant Degree in Business, Engineering or IT Undergraduate Degree or relevant field along with professional qualifications. 
    • Professional certification in Fraud Examination, Auditing, IT Security, Accounting.
    • Understanding of Agile Methodology.
    • At least 5 years experience in a Telco environment
    • At least 5 years in data analytics environment generating business insights by running long lead, realtime and ad-hoc analysis and have proven experience in a telecoms environment. 
    • Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
    • Ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously with strict deadlines to deliver on commitments
    • Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
    • Possess high professional and ethical standards.
  • Customer Obsession
  • Principal Officer, Fraud Detection and Analytics

 

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Level of Education: bachelor degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Thursday, October 23 2025
Duty Station: Nairobi | Nairobi | Kenya
Posted: 09-10-2025
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 09-10-2025
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 09-10-2065
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