Staff Analyst - Risk and Fraud Systems (Fintech)

Location: UK; remote workplace type.

Company

hirify.global provides Merchant of Record payment infrastructure for digital product companies, serving over 10,000 software sellers across 245 territories.

What you will do

• Build data, decisioning, and automated systems that improve seller risk management while reducing fraud losses, customer friction, and manual work.
• Use SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Python, statistics, and AI-assisted tools to explore data, test hypotheses, prototype controls, and evaluate results.
• Map seller-risk data, decisions, controls, owners, and failure points; establish baselines for losses, alert yield, detection speed, exposure, and analyst effort.
• Own live-control health through versioning, testing, impact assessment, monitoring, alerting, and measurable control performance.
• Build labelled fraud-case and fraud-typology libraries, seller-risk tiers, risk opportunity portfolios, and decision artefacts for leadership trade-offs.
• Backtest rules and risk scores on point-in-time data, run experiments and phased roll-outs, translate risk problems into product, data, and engineering work, and hand stable capabilities to durable owners.

Requirements

• Significant experience building or improving merchant- or seller-side fraud detection at a PSP, acquirer, payfac, marketplace, or Merchant of Record, including knowledge of bust-out, transaction laundering, and self-dealing patterns.
• Strong hands-on analytical ability with SQL, Snowflake, dbt or similar, Python, and statistics.
• Experience using LLMs on unstructured data such as website content or support tickets with measured accuracy.
• Experience with decision-flow systems such as Tactile.
• Experience designing, backtesting, and tuning rules and risk scores on point-in-time data with delayed, partial, and adversarial labels.
• Experience treating controls as production systems through version control, testing, impact analysis, drift monitoring, audit trails, and human escalation for high-impact actions.
• Ability to quantify risk trade-offs in fraud losses, approval rates, customer friction, operating cost, and revenue using a method Finance can approve.
• Ability to turn ambiguous cross-functional problems into adopted systems with measurable results and collaborate credibly with investigators, operators, product managers, engineers, data scientists, and executives.
• Good judgement about when to use a rule, workflow, experiment, vendor, model, or agent, plus a willingness to challenge assumptions while involving subject-matter experts.

Nice to have

• Experience in a Merchant of Record, payments, marketplace, subscription, or other adversarial transactional environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Digital-first, remote-friendly work within hirify.global’s hub locations, with trust and autonomy over where, when, and how to work.
• Transparent, collaborative, respectful, and inclusive culture focused on teamwork, simplicity, and supporting others.
• Attractive salary, stock options, unlimited holidays, enhanced parental leave, retirement plans, private healthcare, and well-being initiatives.
• Annual learning fund, regular internal and external training, and ongoing exposure to new challenges.
• Expected six-month outcomes include improving a major seller-risk journey, reducing repetitive screening work, and transferring stable capabilities to durable owners.