# Risk Operations Analyst

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Revenue Operations
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Risk Management, Compliance, Operations, Data Analysis, Process Improvement, Cross-functional Collaboration, Risk Assessment, Payment Processing, Due Diligence, Workflow Optimization
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Risk Operations Analyst responsible for evaluating merchants, scaling risk processes, and ensuring compliance with financial partners. Requires 5+ years in risk, compliance, or operations.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Demonstrate sound judgment and an ability to navigate non-binary, high-risk decisions
- Evaluate merchants, from successful venture-backed startups to well-established institutions by assessing suitability to process on Stripe
- Adhere closely to process while still constantly questioning assumptions, suggesting improvements, and following up on implementation of those improvements
- Effectively and clearly communicate, including with other Stripe employees, Stripe users, and Stripe financial partners
- Identify trends and further report these to cross-functional teams to enhance detection systems
- Contribute to projects to enhance and optimize due diligence strategy systems and tools
- Help build and scale processes across the risk operations ecosystem
- Identify gaps in current systems, policies, and strategies, and recommend enhancements and process improvements to mitigate emerging risks through a collaborative approach with stakeholders

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in risk management, compliance, or operations in a fast-moving environment
- Experience scaling operational processes and driving quantifiable improvements
- Experience working cross-functionally on complex problems
- Ability to use data to quantify problems, tell a story, and influence a solution
- The ability and desire to challenge the status quo
- Creative thinker who considers problems from a customer perspective while being pragmatic and solutions-oriented when solving them
- Experience analyzing feedback patterns and using those insights to drive process and tooling improvements
- You have a lot of ownership, are accountable, and drive towards ambitious goals
- Deep empathy for entrepreneurs running a business and motivation to solve problems to empower them

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with risk assessment and mitigation strategies in a financial technology environment
- Knowledge of payment processing systems and associated risks

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