Senior Data Analyst - Fraud Risk

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London
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We are seeking a highly skilled and inquisitive Senior Risk Analyst to join our Financial Crime Analyst team. This role sits at the intersection of analytics and mission‑critical risk management, supporting Wise’s efforts to proactively identify, measure, and mitigate financial crime risks. As financial crime risks become increasingly complex and data‑driven, we’re looking for a quantitative expert who can combine deep technical proficiency with a sharp understanding of risk management. You will play a pivotal role in shaping how we proactively identify, monitor, and respond to risks, driving meaningful impact by embedding a robust risk quantification program across your domain.


Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and maintain a dashboard of KRIs and relevant risk appetites for fraud risk management, including defining relevant tolerance and granularity of KRIs and drill‑downs necessary to quickly identify and act on risk deterioration.
  • Proactively identify and lead risk initiatives in fraud, including developing metrics, running deep dives, trend analysis, incident thematics or risk concentrations – your inputs will be a critical driver to build a more proactive risk‑management program.
  • Provide analytical inputs requiring quantitative assessments such as product changes, inherent risk assessment frameworks, issue‑rating analysis, scenarios testing, incident reviews, risk and KRIs appetites setting, regional impact assessments.
  • Responsible for working with financial‑crime risk managers to ensure control‑assurance testing adequately covers relevant scenarios for DE and OE testing in the first line.
  • Provide quantitative risk analysis to support quarterly risk assessments for risk governance committees, and periodically present on relevant risk topics and deep dives in risk committees and product planning forums.
  • Collaborate with second‑line model risk management function and participate in relevant associated forums, and work with Compliance Managers, CRO and other key risk stakeholders in defining and implementing risk strategy for financial‑crime risk analytics.

Benefits

  • Be part of a positive change in the world – we’re fixing a broken, greedy system and putting people and businesses in control of their money.
  • Create value from extensive datasets – there is a tonne of value left to unlock from our millions of customers and complex product.
  • Influence the team’s direction – analysts at Wise enable data‑driven decision making and have a large impact on what the team works on.
  • Learn from a global network of professionals – we have a large, diverse team of analysts, data scientists and product managers from whom you can learn.

Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move money around the world. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.


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