Payments Risk Analyst II

You will own the identification and mitigation of fraud risk across fiat payment rails protecting the bottom line and customers without degrading the user experience

Responsibilities

• Own end to end risk controls for ACH payments, scaling fraud prevention processes to keep pace with business expansion
• Drive detection and mitigation of fraudulent deposit activity by implementing targeting logic against bad actors and high risk behavior
• Lead quantitative analysis of fraud performance measuring rule precision and recall, assessing the financial impact of decisions, and surfacing tradeoffs to leadership with clear data backed recommendations
• Partner cross functionally with Product Growth Data Science Risk ML and Engineering to develop and iterate on custom risk management strategies, including the transition from heuristic rules to model driven and synchronous friction controls
• Execute investigations into anomalous customer and transaction behavior, proactively identifying monitoring gaps and closing them before they become losses

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in risk, fraud, or payments operations with at least 2 years focused on payments fraud prevention in a fintech, e commerce, or financial services environment
• 2+ years of hands on experience querying and analyzing large datasets using SQL; ability to independently scope and execute analytics projects end to end
• Demonstrated experience using identity-provider data and fraud-detection tooling to implement and tune risk controls
• Strong knowledge of ACH payment processing and applicable NACHA rules
• Proven ability to measure the financial impact of fraud decisions and communicate findings to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e g LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human in the loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus eligibility
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)