Head, Risk and Compliance Analytics
Flutterwave
Remote
fulltime
Posted 4 days ago
Job Description
Remote
Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) to make and receive payments in a convenient borderless manner.
The Role: Flutterwave is seeking a highly skilled and experienced head of Risk and Compliance Analytics to join our growing team. The selected individual will play a pivotal role in developing and implementing robust analytical products such as risk scoring models, decisioning strategies and data dashboards to enhance our risk management and compliance processes and optimize business outcomes.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Oversee the design, development, and optimization of risk scoring models to assess and predict potential risks and compliance associated with financial transactions.
- Implement performance monitoring mechanisms to evaluate the effectiveness of risk scoring models and decision strategies, making necessary adjustments for continuous improvement
- Develop and implement decision strategies that balance risk mitigation with business objectives, ensuring efficient and effective decision-making processes
- Provide strategic leadership to the Risk Scoring and Decision team, driving the development and enhancement of risk models and decision strategies
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Technology, and Compliance, to integrate risk scoring and decision strategies into business processes and systems
- Ensure that risk scoring models and decision strategies comply with industry regulations and standards, working closely with legal and compliance teams
- Utilize advanced data analysis techniques to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies in data that may impact risk assessments and decisions.
- Communicate risk insights, findings, and recommendations to executive leadership and other stakeholders, providing guidance on risk-related matters.
- Build, nurture and develop a high performing team ensuring a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration
- Ensure compliance with risk management practices through knowledge and understanding of regulatory and partner stakeholder requirements
- Implement Risk and Compliance data dashboards to drive insights and business decisions
Required competency and skillset to be a waver:
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, or related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
- 15+ years of experience in risk management, fraud risk modeling, decision sciences, or related fields within the financial services industry.
- Strong proficiency in data science, statistical analysis, quantitative modeling, and programming languages such as Python, SAS, or similar tools.
- Ability to effectively pull and interpret data using strong analytical skills, making informed decisions in a dynamic environment
- Ability to effectively communicate risk insights, findings, and recommendations to various stakeholders and executive leadership
- Expertise to apply strategic thinking to develop and implement risk strategies aligned with organizational goals
- Demonstrate ability to juggle multiple projects simultaneously & effectively
Required Skills
PythonRisk ManagementData Science
About the Company
Flutterwave
Financial Services / FinTech
251 - 500 Founded 2016
At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy.
We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others.
Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $2 billion in payments and 25 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates.
It has attracted significant investment from experienced Fintech investors such as Ycombinator Continuity Fund (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Greenvisor Capital, Omidyar Network, and Glynn Capital amongst others. In 2017 Flutterwave was named Africa’s best fintech company at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards.
We are a bunch of bold, creative and imaginative individuals collectively driving the effort of simplifying payments for millions of businesses within Africa, and across the globe. Join us and contribute to this effort.
We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others.
Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $2 billion in payments and 25 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates.
It has attracted significant investment from experienced Fintech investors such as Ycombinator Continuity Fund (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Greenvisor Capital, Omidyar Network, and Glynn Capital amongst others. In 2017 Flutterwave was named Africa’s best fintech company at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards.
We are a bunch of bold, creative and imaginative individuals collectively driving the effort of simplifying payments for millions of businesses within Africa, and across the globe. Join us and contribute to this effort.
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