Remote Sr. Risk Analyst

Summary

The job is for a Senior Risk Analyst at Lithic, a company that provides card issuing and payment infrastructure. The role involves analyzing risk trends, creating and improving risk policies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, building relationships with customer-facing teams, and supporting audits and ad-hoc projects.

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
• Collaborate with internal partners 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 better understand various forms of risk
• Build relationships with customer-facing teams and occasionally customers themselves to best inform our approach to managing risk
• 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