Analyst - Risk and Fraud Systems

the company offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better.

We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83

North and serve over 10,000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.

Build the data, decisioning and automated systems that allow the company to take more good risk while reducing fraud losses, unnecessary customer friction and manual work.

the company’s Merchant of Record model makes risk a critical part of the product and its economics. Seller quality, buyer fraud, payment acceptance, refunds, disputes, reserves and card‑scheme exposure cannot be optimised independently. This role will connect those signals, identify where the largest value is being lost, turn risk priorities into working controls and workflows, prove their effect in production, and establish a durable owner once a capability becomes repeatable.

This is not a strategy‑only role and it is not ownership of a large operational team. It is a hands‑on build role at the intersection of risk, data, product, engineering and operations.

Work hands‑on with SQL (Snowflake, dbt), Python, statistics and modern AI‑assisted tools to explore data, test hypotheses, prototype controls and evaluate results.

Map the end‑to‑end seller risk system, its data, decisions, controls, owners and failure points.

Establish the baseline before building: fraud losses, alert yield, time‑to‑detect, exposure at detection and analyst effort, with losses reconciled with Finance.

Own the health of live controls: every rule and check has an owner, an expected volume, a measured yield and alerting when it goes quiet or drifts, and every change is tested and impact‑assessed before release.

Build and maintain a labelled library of confirmed fraud cases and a shared fraud typology: the basis for rules now and for machine‑learning models with Data Science later.

Build a value‑ranked portfolio of risk opportunities.

Translate risk problems into clear product, data and engineering work with measurable acceptance criteria.

Design seller risk tiers that set payout timing, reserves and limits, giving good sellers more room and tightening controls on riskier ones.

Backtest rules and risk scores on point‑in‑time data, and design control experiments, shadow tests and phased roll‑outs that measure both loss reduction and legitimate‑customer impact.

Produce decision artefacts that let senior leaders make trade‑offs about risk appetite, engineering investment, customer experience and commercial growth.

Stay with each major capability until it works in production, then establish its long‑term owner and move to the next high‑value problem.

At least one major seller‑risk journey has materially improved on agreed loss, approval, speed or manual‑effort measures.

Fraud/Risk Operations spends significantly less time on repetitive screening and more time on investigation, judgement and improvement.

Stable capabilities have been handed to durable owners, leaving the role free to take on the next high‑value problems.

Significant experience building or improving merchant‑or seller‑side fraud detection at a PSP, acquirer, payfac, marketplace or Merchant of Record, and a working knowledge of how bust‑out, transaction laundering and self‑dealing show up in the data.

Strong hands‑on analytical ability, fluency in SQL (Snowflake, dbt or similar), Python and…