Lithic is hiring a
Risk Analyst

Summary

Join Lithic as a Sr. Risk Analyst to deliver insights into current risks, predict future risks, and drive continuous improvement of risk policies and monitoring efforts.

Requirements

• 4-6 years of financial services or financial technology experience, ideally in issuer or processor fraud risk management
• Excellent analytical thinking and problem solving, with experience leveraging large datasets to complete assessments and decisions. Excellent SQL programming skills and advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Experience in creating performance monitoring dashboards using Metabase, Looker, Hex, or a similar business intelligence tool
• Outstanding communication and influence skills, coupled with the ability to foster collaboration and teamwork
• Self-awareness and humility, with the ability to balance when to think from first principles, when to lean on your experience in approaching a problem, and when to turn to others for help
• Foundational knowledge of payment processing, with a strong understanding of fraud and risk industry trends
• Comfort with ambiguity and working in an unstructured environment

Responsibilities

• Deep dive into past and ongoing trends and provide data driven insights that identify and predict risky behavior
• Identify rule criteria, test and validate rule output, and communicate portfolio and rule performance in a way that influences Lithic’s risk strategy
• Collaborate with internal partners like Analytics, Product, Engineering, and Compliance Operations to tailor rule, alert, and dashboard creation and refinement techniques
• Create dashboards to monitor performance across relevant metrics and create alerts to highlight any anomalies or unusual trends
• Identify new approaches and data sources that could help us better understand various forms of risk, and partner with our operations, analytics, and product and engineering teams to implement them
• Build relationships with our customer-facing teams (and occasionally our customers themselves) to best inform our approach to managing risk in a way that enables prudent growth
• Support risk assessments, audits, and ad-hoc projects as assigned

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) match
• Life Insurance and AD&D policy
• 3% cashback on all Privacy purchases