Risk & Compliance Intelligence Strategy
- Define the risk and compliance intelligence strategy, aligned to regulatory expectations and business growth.
- Translate complex regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements into clear analytics priorities, KRIs, and leadership insights.
- Set standards for how risk information is produced, interpreted, and consumed across the organization.
Observability & Insight Design
- Design observability frameworks for risk and compliance processes, including:
- data lineage and traceability,
- explainability of risk decisions,
- visibility into control effectiveness.
- Identify structural gaps in monitoring, escalation, and risk signal quality.
- Ensure insights support decision-making, not just reporting.
Governance, Influence & Stakeholder Leadership
- Act as a senior partner to Risk, Compliance, Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations teams.
- Lead governance discussions to prioritize risk initiatives and resolve trade-offs.
- Influence senior stakeholders without direct authority, using data, judgment, and regulatory context.
Regulatory & Control Enablement
- Strengthen regulatory readiness through analytics that are transparent, auditable, and explainable.
- Support regulatory engagements, audits, and internal reviews with data-driven narratives.
- Enhance consistency and traceability of risk decisions across the payments lifecycle.
Capability & Operating Model Development
- Define the target operating model for Risk & Compliance Intelligence.
- Assess tooling, data, and resourcing needs over time and build cases for investment.
- Coach and mentor analysts and partner teams as the capability evolves.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Data Science, Business, or a related field.
- At least 8 years’ experience in risk management, compliance, or audit roles.
- Good understanding of the Payments/Fintech industry.
- Strong ability to analyze complex data sets, interpret trends, and draw actionable conclusions.
- Proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) is a plus.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks.
- Ability to communicate technical findings to non-technical stakeholders clearly and concisely.
- Exceptional attention to detail to ensure accuracy in regulatory reporting.
- A self-motivator with the ability to get things done.
- Able to prioritise quickly and meet deadlines under pressure.
- Team player with strong collaborative qualities.
