Risk Strategist

The Role

• Within the Risk team, as a Risk Strategist you will serve as the internal consultant to various cross functional teams including product, engineering, partnerships and growth on all topics related to risk and card network rules.
  
• The ideal candidate will use their expertise in risk to advise on new product development, prioritization of market expansion, risk management strategies and establishing internal controls.
  
• Risk Strategist will develop recommendations that ensure Flutterwave can move rapidly while managing risk in every aspect.
  

Required Competencies and Skills to be a Waver

• 7+ years experience in payments at a card network, an acquiring bank or related payments technology company. 
  
• Deep understanding of risk and fraud.
  
• Experience analyzing and interpreting card network rules.
  
• Strong project management experience.
  
• Solutions based mindset when working cross functionally across various stakeholders.
  
• Negotiating with product, engineering, sales and legal to ensure alignment. 
  

The Role

• Within the Risk team, as a Risk Strategist you will serve as the internal consultant to various cross functional teams including product, engineering, partnerships and growth on all topics related to risk and card network rules.
  
• The ideal candidate will use their expertise in risk to advise on new product development, prioritization of market expansion, risk management strategies and establishing internal controls.
  
• Risk Strategist will develop recommendations that ensure Flutterwave can move rapidly while managing risk in every aspect.
  

Required Competencies and Skills to be a Waver

• 7+ years experience in payments at a card network, an acquiring bank or related payments technology company. 
  
• Deep understanding of risk and fraud.
  
• Experience analyzing and interpreting card network rules.
  
• Strong project management experience.
  
• Solutions based mindset when working cross functionally across various stakeholders.
  
• Negotiating with product, engineering, sales and legal to ensure alignment. 
  

In this Role, you will

• Collaborate with key stakeholders (e.g. Product Managers, Engineering, Compliance, User Policy, Risk Partnerships, Legal, etc) to evaluate the development of new products and advise on the risk / fraud-related requirements and controls that need to be established to ensure Flutterwave manages product / transaction risk.
  
• Establish the risk appetite for both individual products and across Flutterwave’s entire portfolio. 
  
• Lead ad hoc risk-related projects end-to-end to support market expansion, new products or risk management. 
  
• Be the internal expert on card network (Visa / Mastercard / Amex / Discover) rules and our acquiring or issuing bank contractual requirements. 
  
• Conduct research, analyze data and put forth recommendations and proposals that drive decisions on product, risk management and partnerships.  
  
• Take ownership of undefined bodies of work and create a structured process that allows Flutterwave to move fast in identifying and executing on opportunities. 
  
• Own the product risk assessment process for rollouts of new products or enhancements. 
  
• Influence risk / compliance product and engineering roadmaps