Risk Advisor (Payments Risk)

Location: Paddington, London, United Kingdom; hybrid work with at least 3 days per week in the office, with time potentially split between hirify.global and Lloyds Banking Group offices. Intermittent travel may be required.

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments across more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Develop and execute a risk strategy for Lloyds Banking Group aligned with the local market, client priorities, and hirify.global’s risk strategy.
• Lead fraud prevention, fraud management, security, and risk activities across the hirify.global and Lloyds payment infrastructure.
• Manage the risk relationship with Lloyds, including fraud and data-breach events, stakeholder training, reporting, and executive briefings.
• Identify opportunities to improve the payment ecosystem, embed hirify.global risk products and fraud services, and strengthen risk-management practices.
• Assess emerging risks, new business models, payment innovations, regulatory developments, and potential impacts on hirify.global and Lloyds.
• Coordinate hirify.global, Lloyds, regulatory, government-engagement, data-and-analytics, and global risk stakeholders to deliver risk solutions.

Requirements

• Track record identifying and mitigating enterprise and operational risk for a complex global company in a regulated industry.
• Experience protecting consumer and corporate data through rigorous compliance and rules-management processes.
• Strategic and operational understanding of business risks, including root-cause analysis, risk severity, remediation cost, and action planning.
• Strong knowledge of risk-management practices, industry trends, and relevant issues.
• Experience working cross-functionally with technology teams, business leaders, clients, banks, processors, and regulators.
• Ability to influence, collaborate, and operate effectively in a matrix environment.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze data and intelligence, identify impactful insights, and align execution with business objectives.
• Leadership experience setting direction, motivating teams, developing talent, and sharing knowledge across an organization.
• Deep global knowledge of the payments industry, including regulatory, market, competitive, and technology trends.
• Significant leadership experience in technology products, technology solutions, payments, fintech, a related sector, or a financial institution using payment solutions and services.
• Solid general-management experience in strategic thinking, financial planning, risk management, relationship building, and project leadership.

Nice to have

• Extensive international experience or experience working in a multinational corporation.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in hirify.global’s Risk Europe organization.
• Work is centered on improving payment safety, security, innovation, and long-term ecosystem growth.
• Regular collaboration with hirify.global and Lloyds leadership, internal functional teams, clients, regulators, and payment-industry stakeholders.
• Intermittent travel may be required, and the role may split time between hirify.global and Lloyds offices.