Risk Operations Analyst, Financial Crimes

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate sound judgment and an ability to navigate non-binary, high-risk decisions.
• Adhere closely to process while still constantly questioning assumptions, suggesting improvements, and balancing user experience with compliance requirements.
• Effectively and clearly communicate with other Stripes, Stripe's users, and Stripe's financial partners.
• Identify and assess financial crime risks, conduct reviews using data analysis, and monitor for suspicious activity and trends.
• Facilitate the re-design of business processes including clarifying, identifying issues, and facilitating changes to attain the highest levels of efficiency, control, and compliance.
• Help build and scale processes across the financial crimes operations eco-system.
• 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 financial operations.
• Understanding of FinCrime red flags, its typologies, and how they can be identified.
• Experience in developing/implementing process improvements.
• Analytical and demonstrates reasoned logic to decision making and judgements, considers external/internal factors and is able to recommend solutions in complex situations.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to produce clear, precise and concise written and presentation materials.
• Ability to analyze feedback patterns and use these insights to drive process and product improvements.
• Policy Development & Regulatory Knowledge: Proven track record developing compliance policies and procedures for payment processing environments.
• Risk Assessment: Experience conducting merchant risk assessments, transaction monitoring, and implementing risk-based compliance controls.
• Operational Management & Scaled Operations: Experience driving operational outcomes and managing large-scale operations through vendor partnerships, third-party integrations, and automated solutions to achieve efficiency and scalability in compliance processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Data analysis tools such as SQL
• Experience in transaction monitoring or financial investigations, Sanctions, AML/EDD/KYC/KYB
• Knowledge of payment processing systems and associated risks