Data Analyst

Grab; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits

Parental and Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork differentiated hours

Job summary

Grab Malaysia is seeking an analytics professional for the Integrity team to focus on Trust and Safety. You will analyze user behavior and product funnels to identify risks, leveraging GenAI capabilities to streamline workflows and support risk detection initiatives.

Reporting to the Analytics Manager, you will contribute to data initiatives, participate in building anomaly detection, and work onsite at Grab Malaysia to protect millions of users and transactions.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in data-related or quantitative fields.
• Bachelor’s degree in analytics, statistics, computer science, or related field.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau).
• Foundational awareness of AI/ML concepts and system-thinking as tools for better risk analysis.
• Understanding of basic statistical techniques and experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Address analytical problems of low to medium complexity, delivering reliable insights to measure business and product risk performance.
• Analyze user behavior data to identify vulnerabilities across risk domains, aiding anomaly detection systems.
• Ideate on new signals to detect risks, collaborating with stakeholders to develop data-driven risk rules.
• Automate routine metric reviews and alerts using GenAI tools, freeing time for deeper investigations.
• Use auto-adaptive risk framework components to validate and refine safety and risk rules.
• Contribute to data initiatives like metric onboarding and data pipeline cleanups to keep risk data robust.

Skills

1+ years experience

AI/ML awareness

System-thinking

Statistical techniques

Education

Bachelor's degree in Analytics/Statistics/CS

Tools

SQL

Python

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Company Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

The Integrity team is dedicated to Trust, Identity, and Safety, safeguarding our users and transactions on Grab. We leverage our datasets to address critical challenges, protecting millions of users and transactions from fraudulent activities, identity compromises, unsafe offline interactions, and harmful platform content. Our core mission involves analyzing ambiguous threat patterns, building anomaly detection, and ideating on new signals to detect risks. To achieve this at scale, we use advanced AI, machine learning, and auto-adaptive systems as powerful tools to enhance our broader risk analysis and decision-making capabilities.

Get to Know the Role

Reporting to the Analytics Manager, you will be an important analytics partner focused on Trust and Safety for a specific Problem Space Team (PST). Your primary focus is to analyze user behavior and product funnels to identify potential risks. You will use our evolving auto-adaptive tools and GenAI capabilities to streamline your daily analytical workflow.

You will base onsite at our Grab Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Address analytical problems of low to medium complexity, delivering reliable and accurate insights to measure business and product risk performance.
• Analyze user behavior data to identify potential vulnerabilities across different risk domains, including account security, user safety, and content integrity, assisting in the building of anomaly detection systems.
• Ideate on new signals to detect risks, working with stakeholders to develop data-driven rules that mitigate bad actors.
• Use GenAI tools (like Cursor or Gemini) and basic system-thinking to automate routine metric reviews and alerts, freeing up your time for deeper threat investigations.
• Use components of our Auto-Adaptive risk frameworks as tools to help in the operational validation and refinement of safety and risk rules.
• Contribute to foundational data initiatives, such as metric onboarding, data pipeline cleanups, and architectural efficiency, ensuring the data we use for risk detection remains robust and reliable.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 1+ years of experience in data-related or quantitative fields.
• A Bachelor's Degree in Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Fundamental awareness of AI/ML concepts and system-thinking as tools for better risk analysis.
• Understanding of basic statistical techniques and experimentation.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.