Trading Investigator
Sportradar is looking for a Trading Investigator to work within its Revenue Protection team. The role involves analysing large and complex datasets to support intellectual property protection, revenue recovery, risk identification, and commercial intelligence activities.
The Trading Investigator will focus on identifying trends, anomalies, suspicious activity, and commercial opportunities across Sportradar's products, services, and partner ecosystem. Combining advanced analytical techniques with investigative thinking, the analyst will produce actionable intelligence and deliver insights that help protect and maximise the value of Sportradar's data, content, and commercial rights.
The successful candidate will possess strong analytical capabilities, commercial awareness, and a naturally inquisitive mindset, enabling them to transform data into meaningful intelligence and business outcomes.
- Analyse large and complex datasets relating to customer activity, product usage, content consumption, distribution channels, and commercial operations.
- Develop monitoring frameworks to identify unauthorised usage, revenue leakage, abuse, fraud indicators, and emerging business risks.
- Conduct quantitative analysis to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities across products, services, and customer segments.
- Support investigations involving contractual non-compliance and other revenue-impacting activities.
- Identify relationships, patterns, and connections across customers, users, partners, and entities of interest.
- Produce analytical reports, visualisations, and dashboards to support operational and strategic decision-making.
- Develop automated processes to improve monitoring, intelligence collection, and reporting capabilities.
- Partner with Intelligence Analysts, Investigators, and Commercial stakeholders to support complex enquiries and investigations.
- Work closely with Data Science, Product, and Engineering teams to develop scalable analytical solutions.
- Conduct behavioural, trend, and network analysis to identify clusters, anomalies, and indicators of misuse.
- Contribute to the development of new methodologies, tools, and analytical capabilities that enhance Revenue Protection operations.
- 2+ years' experience in data analytics, business intelligence, fraud analytics, revenue assurance, investigations, compliance, risk management, or a related field (required).
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with large datasets (required).
- Experience using Python, R, or equivalent analytical tools for data investigation and analysis (required).
- Expertise in statistical analysis, data modelling, and visualisation techniques (required).
- Experience transforming and analysing data from multiple sources and presenting insights through dashboards and visualisations using Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar business intelligence tools (required).
- Analytical and problem-solving mindset, with the ability to identify patterns and root causes (required).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (required).
- Ability to communicate complex findings to both technical and non-technical audiences (required).
- Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously (required).
- Experience in sports, betting, media, technology, digital content, financial services, or telecommunications industries (nice-to-have).
- Experience working with cloud-based analytical environments and data platforms (nice-to-have).
- Understanding of machine learning, anomaly detection, or behavioural modelling (nice-to-have).
- Experience with graph analytics and network analysis techniques (nice-to-have).
- Knowledge of API integrations and data engineering concepts (nice-to-have).
- Additional language skills (nice-to-have).
- A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Offices in Europe, Asia and US) including various social events and teambuilding.
- Flexibility to manage your workday and tasks with autonomy.
- A balance of structure and autonomy to tackle your daily tasks.
- Vibrant and inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme.
- Access to Calm and Reulay app (leading well-being apps designed to support focus, quality rest, mindfulness, and long-term mental resilience).
- Online training videos.
- Flexible working hours.
Sportradar is a global sports technology company that collects, analyses and distributes sports data to betting operators, sports leagues and media companies. Headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and founded in 2001, it provides betting services, managed trading, integrity monitoring and audiovisual streaming across hundreds of sports. The company holds official data partnerships with organisations including the NBA, NHL, FIFA and ICC. Sportradar is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people worldwide.