The specialist will be responsible to protect Lazada Group activities and its ecosystem users against any prohibited and controlled products risk exposure, including but not limited to compliance, reputation, and financial risk, while ensuring healthy commercial growth and acceptable user experience.

Main Responsibilities:
• Conduct research, analysis, reporting on performance, and identifying trends in prohibited and controlled products risk across all Lazada regions.
• Partner with other functions such as Customer Care, Platform Governance, Commercial, Logistics, Tech, etc. to identify, assess and manage risks.
• Optimize assortment governance rule & algorithms through data driven analysis as well as develop cutting edge tactical/strategic solutions to enhance better assortment governance and non-compliance detection.
• Develop and communicate insights and recommended actions to stakeholders to manage risk by contributing towards machine learning models, rules and other detection systems.
• Develop and maintain alert/dashboard mechanisms and automated outputs which informs key stakeholders of key metrics status.
• Be source of truth for assortment risk metrics in the organization and own their logic.
• Handle escalations and conducting investigations for incidents.

Job Requirements:
• At least 5 years of experience with hands-on risk / compliance management.
• Strong experience in handling large scale unstructured data. Experience in Excel and/or SQL is required.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills is a must.
• A technical degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Data Science, Math, or risk management is more preferred but not a must.
• Knowledge of laws and regulations related to prohibited and controlled goods will be highly desirable.