Senior Director, Payments Risk
Inactive
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GoFundMeFintech
United StatesFull-TimeDirector
Salary202500 - 304000 USD per year
Job Details
- Languages
- English
- Experience
- 10-15+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSBackend DevelopmentDockerLeadershipNode.jsPHPPostgreSQLProject ManagementPythonSoftware DevelopmentSQLBlockchainBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceBVA AnalysisCloud ComputingCypressData AnalysisDqlDrupalDynamoDBEclipseEgnyteElasticSearchEmbedded SystemsErlangErwinEs6EthereumETLExcel VBAExpress.jsEye TrackingFGPA ArchitectureFigmaFlashFlaskFlutterFortranFrontend DevelopmentFsharpFull Stack DevelopmentGame DesignGame DevelopmentGCPGitGraphic DesignHadoopHadoop HDFSHibernateHTMLCSSImage ProcessingiOS DevelopmentIoTJavaJava EEJavaFX & FXMLJava J2EEJava RmiJavascriptJenkinsJestJMeterjQueryJUNITJVMKafkaKerasKibanaKiCADKnockout.jsKotlinKubeflowKubernetesLDAPLotus NotesMachine LearningMac OS XMatlabMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft Active DirectoryMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft DynamicsMicrosoft ExchangeMicrosoft .NETMicrosoft Power BIMicrosoft SQL ServerMLFlowMongoDBMySQLNetbeans IDENginxNhibernate*NixNLTKNumpyNUnitOAuthObjective-COpen Api QzoneOpenCVOracleOracle EBSOracle ERPOracle RDBMSOracle RMANPeople ManagementProduct ManagementPyTorchQAQA AutomationQliksenseQlikViewQtRabbitmqReact.jsReact NativeRubyRuby on RailsRxJSRxSwiftSalesforceSAPSAP ABAPSAP EWMSAS EGSCRUMSharePointShopifySnowflakeSoftware ArchitectureSpringSpring BootSpring MVCSQLiteSwiftTypeScriptUI DesignUnity3DUser Experience DesignVBAVB.NETVisual BasicVue.JsXamarinXbox 360 DevelopmentXbox One DevelopmentYarnYii2 PHP FrameworkZabbixZend FrameworkC#C++C (Programming language)Project CoordinationHR ManagementGoogle AnalyticsJiraProduct OperationsCross-functional Team LeadershipOperations ManagementTableauProduct DevelopmentStrategyBusiness OperationsFinancial ManagementProduct AnalyticsActiveMQAirflowAlgorithmsAmazon Web ServicesApache KafkaAPI testingASP.NET MVCASP.NET Web APIAxiosAzureBeanstalkBehavioral economicsBehavioral scienceBlenderCassandraClickhouseContent creationContent managementData engineeringData scienceData StructuresGrafanaGroovygRPCHaskellPostgresREST APIRedisReduxRegression testingRelease ManagementResource PlanningServerlessSymfonyTestRailTomcatUnreal engineWebRTCReactRubyOnRailsRustSeleniumSparkTensorflowWeb3.jsCommunication SkillsAnalytical SkillsCollaborationSketchCI/CDProblem SolvingCustomer serviceSEOMicrosoft OfficeAgile methodologiesRESTful APIsMentoringLinuxDevOpsTerraformAccountingAttention to detailOrganizational skillsPresentation skillsWritten communicationMicroservicesComplianceMicrosoft Office SuiteCoachingInterpersonal skillsNetworkingExcellent communication skillsAdaptabilityRelationship buildingProblem-solving skillsCritical thinkingResearchTrainingTroubleshootingWritingActive listeningStrong work ethicAbility to learnJSONClient relationship managementBudgetingStrong communication skillsCross-functional collaborationData entryRelationship managementSales experienceMarket ResearchQuality AssuranceScalaCreativityRisk ManagementData visualizationMarketingEditingTeam managementStakeholder managementComputer skillsLead GenerationMentorshipStrategic thinkingDigital MarketingProcess improvementResearch skillsTechnical supportCRMAnsibleFinancial analysisAnalytical thinkingWordPressData modelingNodeJSFinancePrototypingScriptingSoftware EngineeringData analyticsData managementDebuggingCustomer supportChange ManagementCustomer SuccessConfluenceEnglish communicationBookkeepingSaaSBudget managementPowerPointA/B testingPositive attitude
Requirements
- 10–15+ years of progressively senior payments risk and compliance experience.
- Background at modern payments companies, processors, or fintechs.
- Deep understanding of payments processing, merchant onboarding, underwriting, credit risk, fraud detection, and AML/CTF program management.
- Experience leading CDD/EDD, KYC/KYB, and transaction monitoring teams.
- Strong working knowledge of AML, sanctions, card network rules, and global best practices.
- Ability to analyze complex datasets, interpret ambiguous situations, and make high-stakes decisions under pressure.
- Demonstrated experience managing and developing distributed global teams.
- Experience partnering with communications or public affairs on sensitive risk scenarios.
- Resilient, and able to handle escalations with clarity, confidence, and composure.
- Courage of conviction paired with humility.
- Master communicator able to explain decisions in simple, non-technical language.
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally at all levels.
- Curiosity and willingness to deeply understand work before driving changes.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior leader for payments risk and compliance, advising on regulatory obligations, processing, and financial crime risk.
- Establish and evolve frameworks for CDD, EDD, KYC/KYB, transaction monitoring, and suspicious activity management.
- Oversee and coach teams responsible for fraud analysis, identity verification, financial compliance, and transaction monitoring.
- Improve loss reporting, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement compensating controls.
- Guide workflow design for donation review, account review, dispute prevention, and fraud mitigation.
- Lead risk reviews, assessing financial exposure and creditworthiness.
- Oversee recovery of negative balances and mitigation of losses.
- Partner with executives, product leaders, finance, engineering, comms, and legal stakeholders.
- Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear explanations for non-compliance teams.
- Lead and scale distributed global payments risk teams, setting goals and nurturing a supportive environment.
- Create and deliver training on compliance obligations, payments risk, and best practices.
- Leverage SQL, Looker, and transactional datasets to identify trends and inform decisions.
- Build and refine reporting frameworks for risk posture and operational improvement.
