Risk Control Design Manager (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid, Warsaw, Poland

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company serving businesses across five continents and providing technology for customer growth and secure payments.

What you will do

• Operationalise 2LOD policies, procedures, steering documents, and regulatory requirements into control objectives, business outcomes, success criteria, and implementation-ready requirements.
• Lead alignment across Financial Crime Compliance, Merchant Risk, Risk Operations, Digital, Risk Technology, Product, and other stakeholders.
• Own control frameworks, target operating models, customer lifecycle capabilities, risk drivers, reference data, control outcomes, and supporting data models.
• Design onboarding, ongoing review, offboarding, Customer Risk Rating, Customer Risk Assessment, approval governance, escalation models, and related control domains.
• Drive control automation, straight-through processing, workflow optimisation, simplification, standardisation, and reusable control design patterns.
• Provide design authority for complex initiatives and govern traceability from policy intent through implementation to measurable and auditable control outcomes.

Requirements

• 6+ years of leadership experience in Risk, Compliance, Financial Crime, AML/KYC, Customer Lifecycle Management, or related control functions.
• Deep subject matter expertise in KYC, CDD, EDD, CRA, and AML transaction monitoring frameworks.
• Experience operationalising regulatory and policy requirements into control frameworks, operating models, and implementation-ready technical requirements.
• Strong understanding of customer lifecycle processes, including onboarding, ongoing review, offboarding, risk assessments, and approval governance.
• Experience designing risk-based controls, approval frameworks, escalation models, and customer risk assessment methodologies.
• Ability to define and govern control data models, risk drivers, reference data, decision logic, and control outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management experience across Compliance, Risk, Product, Operations, and Technology.
• Experience driving automation, straight-through processing, workflow optimisation, and control efficiency initiatives.
• Ability to lead complex cross-functional change, influence senior stakeholders, and drive strategic design decisions.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills, including the ability to translate complex regulatory concepts into practical business solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work site in Warsaw, Poland.
• Private medical and life insurance.
• MyBenefit Platform, holiday allowance, public transportation allowance, and meal allowance.
• Annual bonus and extensive training opportunities.
• Work with colleagues from around the world in a global payments technology organisation.