Senior Manager, Lead Risk Advisor for Central Europe (Fintech)

Location: Frankfurt, Germany; hybrid arrangement with at least 3 days in the office, with attendance expectations confirmed by the Hiring Manager.

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions among consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Lead delivery of hirify.global’s Central Europe risk strategy across multiple markets, aligned with the global risk framework and local market needs.
• Advise country managers, executive teams, strategic clients, and functional leaders on operational, financial, legal, regulatory, fraud, security, and payment-integrity risks.
• Support fraud-services strategy, client adoption of risk solutions, fraud prevention, secure technology, dispute and fraud trend management, and payment-integrity initiatives.
• Assist with significant fraud events and data-breach response for Central European clients, including analysis, reporting, coordination, and follow-up actions.
• Collaborate with product, data and analytics, government engagement, regulatory, policy, security, fraud, and consulting teams on risk programs and ecosystem resilience.
• Analyse fraud trends and market intelligence, prepare dashboards and executive briefings, identify root causes, and recommend mitigation and product improvements.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience and expert knowledge in risk management, fraud prevention, or a related field, with a proven track record of managing fraud risks.
• At least 2 years of experience engaging and advising clients on risk-management best practices for payment businesses.
• Knowledge of fraud-monitoring tools, data-security principles, cyber-risk concepts, fraud technologies, controls, fraud reduction, and fraud-exploit identification.
• Experience working with issuers, acquirers, processors, payment facilitators, or fintechs, including overseeing fraud-solution implementation in financial or payments environments.
• Strong understanding of Central European payments and financial-services markets, including regulatory, market, and technology trends.
• Track record of identifying and managing enterprise and operational risk for a complex global financial-services company.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, strategic-thinking, and critical-thinking skills, including interpreting complex data, identifying trends and root causes, assessing remediation costs, and developing action plans.
• Technical proficiency with dashboards and data-analytics tools, plus demonstrated ability to generate impactful insights from data and intelligence.
• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, leadership, stakeholder-management, and interpersonal skills, including executive-level written and verbal communication.
• Experience building peer-level relationships with senior client and partner leaders, influencing stakeholders across functions and markets, managing matrixed stakeholders, and communicating security threats.
• Experience leading and engaging senior internal and external stakeholders on strategies or risk capabilities, synthesising complex information for executive decision-making, and building long-term working relationships.

Nice to have

• Exposure to incident response, fraud-event handling, or regulatory engagement.
• Background in Risk, Compliance, FinCrime, or similar corporate control functions.
• Experience collaborating with law-enforcement or regulatory bodies.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, Security+, CEH, or CFE.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on payment integrity, trust, resilience, and safe growth across Central European markets.
• Collaboration with regional leadership, product, analytics, consulting, government engagement, regulatory, policy, security, and client teams.
• Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision coverage; pension; life insurance; annual leave; and a wellness program.
• The position may be eligible for bonus and equity, with compensation varying by job-related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
• hirify.global is an equal-opportunity employer and provides accommodations for candidates with disabilities during the selection process.