Senior Risk Analyst (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Risk Analyst (Fintech): Identifying and mitigating payments fraud risk on critical payment rails, focusing on logic implementation targeting bad actors, measuring fraud performance, and proactively identifying and closing gaps in monitoring. Focus on scaling risk controls, owning reporting processes with banking partners, and collaborating with internal stakeholders to drive custom risk management strategies.

Location: Must be based in the United States. In-person participation is required throughout the year for team and company-wide offsites.

Salary: $167,280—$196,800 USD

Company

hirify.global's mission is to increase economic freedom in the world by building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system.

What you will do

• Identify, investigate, and mitigate fraudulent purchase and deposit activity.
• Implement logic targeting bad actors and high-risk behavior associated with unauthorized purchasing activity across multiple regions.
• Measure fraud performance across payment methods and develop core metrics.
• Own risk controls from end-to-end and scale processes to provide appropriate coverage as the business expands.
• Work with internal stakeholders in Product, Growth, Data Science and Engineering to develop and drive forward custom risk management strategies and techniques for different geographies.
• Synthesize data learnings into compelling stories and communicate them to Payments Risk leadership.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• 3+ years of experience fighting Cards and Mobile Payments fraud in an e-commerce or financial services environment.
• 3+ years of experience in data analysis, working with databases, and querying (e.g., SQL, MySQL, etc).
• BA/BS degree in a quantitative field (ex Math, Stats, Physics, or Computer Science) or equivalent practical experience.
• Advanced experience using SQL.
• Proficiency with business intelligence and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker, Superset).

Nice to have

• Experience with mitigating risk from issuing credit/debit cards.
• Deep understanding of mobile payments.
• Experience leveraging AI tools such as cursor, glean, copilot.
• Advanced experience with Python.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions.
• Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Generous Time off/Leave Policy.
• The option of getting paid in digital currency.