Senior Risk & AI Business Analyst (Fintech)

Location: Portugal; remote role with occasional virtual or onsite office shadowing depending on work location; ability to travel 25% of the time.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered fraud detection technology for financial institutions, payment networks, and merchants, helping prevent financial crime, fraud, and money laundering at scale.

What you will do

• Lead analysis of complex business and risk challenges, conducting stakeholder workshops and documenting requirements, fraud scenarios, and investigative workflows.
• Translate regulatory and compliance requirements, including BSA/AML and PSD2 SCA, into system specifications and solution designs.
• Own the business analysis workstream for complex implementations, including data mapping, event-flow definition, configuration specifications, validation, and deployment.
• Coordinate UAT, develop test scripts, validate business outcomes, support customer training and adoption, and guide complex change requests and production issues.
• Advise senior client stakeholders, facilitate decisions across business and technical audiences, and align customer needs with delivery priorities.
• Support product improvements, post-implementation reviews, best-practice sharing, and mentoring across the Business Analysis organization.

Requirements

• MSc or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Risk Management, or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in business analysis, fraud or risk, financial services, fintech, or technology consulting.
• Experience leading complex business analysis and solution design initiatives.
• Ability to translate complex business problems into clear requirements and solutions.
• Proficiency with data querying tools such as SQL and analysis in Excel or BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Experience working with technical teams and understanding data flows, integrations, and APIs.
• Strong understanding of fraud detection methodologies, risk analysis, alert management platforms, and investigative workflows.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication, including experience facilitating workshops and delivering client presentations.
• Ability to mentor colleagues, share knowledge, improve organizational practices, challenge the status quo, and identify opportunities to improve products and ways of working.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with onboarding that may include virtual or onsite office shadowing depending on location.
• Training, manager support, colleague connections, and access to extensive company and product information during the first 30 days.
• Open working environment focused on collaboration, experimentation, continuous improvement, and professional growth.
• Opportunity to work with major financial institutions and merchants on fraud prevention, risk strategy, education, configuration, and solution delivery.