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Fraud Analyst

Sun King

Sun King

IT, Accounting & Finance
Kenya
Posted on Jul 23, 2025
Location: Nairobi, Kenya

​​About the role:
The Fraud Analyst will be part of the Risk & Credit team with a core role of identification and prevention of fraud in the field where our PAYGO products are sold and used. This role involves detecting, investigating, and preventing fraudulent activities, often related to identity theft, tampering, or payment issues, within the PAYGO business model. The Fraud analyst is expected to work with the field teams, call center, private security firms and law enforcement team to resolve fraud cases and implement preventative measures. Due to the evolving fraud techniques, the fraud analysts will leverage cybersecurity tools, and threat intelligence to detect suspicious activities, analyse patterns, and implement strategies to mitigate risks including online fraud risk especially on social media pages.
Department
Corporate Risk
Employment Type
Permanent - Full Time
Location
Kenya
Workplace type
Onsite
Reporting To
Fraud Manager- Kenya

What you would be expected to do:

• Detection of potential fraud from suspicious patterns and unusual behaviours at the field and from the data perspective through review of sales and collections data, customer behavior, and other relevant information to identify potential fraud patterns.
• Investigate suspected fraud and gather evidence of fraud. This involves field investigations, verification of client information, identification of impersonation and/identity theft, assessment of product usage integrity etc.
• Visit customer sites to verify installations, assess asset condition, identify potential tampering or theft and enforce repossession where necessary.
• Interview customers, sales agents and other parties to help in gathering information and clarify discrepancies related to sales, theft, product usage, product installations, or customer interactions.
• Work with sales, customer service, and operations teams and other internal stakeholders to provide findings, implement preventive measures, and improve overall fraud detection and mitigation.
• Liaise with different law enforcement agents to close reported fraud cases.
• Prepare reports and documentation by compiling detailed reports of investigation findings, recommendations, and outcomes.
• Build, Develop and maintain relationships with customers, sales agents, staff members and local authorities to facilitate investigations and gather intelligence.
• Creating fraud awareness to the staff as well as fraud impact on the business.
• Any other duty that may be assigned by Fraud Manager or Risk Leadership

You would be a strong candidate if you are/have:

• A Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in a related field of Criminal justice/Criminology/Security studies and Risk Management
• Other relevant certification in Criminal Investigations or Business Analytics is an added advantage.
• At least 3 Years of experience in fraud investigations.
• Familiarity with PAYGO products and business models is a plus.
• Physical stamina i.e. ability to travel extensively and work in various environmental conditions.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent communication skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with ability to interact with diverse stakeholders.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong people relations skills
• Ability to analyse data, identify patterns, and draw meaningful conclusions.
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Ability to work alone with minimum supervision
• High level of integrity

What Sun King Offers (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):

  • Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
  • An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
  • A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
  • Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Centre for Leadership.
We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, inclusive work environment.

We believe that innovation and understanding comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.
Sun King recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes people based on their experience, skills, effort, and results. We explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, caste, national origin, colour, gender, marital status, family structure, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or disability.

About Sun King

Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.

Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.

Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.

Our Hiring Process

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