# Risk Operations Analyst, Financial Crimes

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: United States
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Risk Operations Analyst at Stripe, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that our policies, operations, and workflows align with the needs of our financial partners. You will be responsible for identifying and assessing regulatory, contractual, and partner risk, and advising operational teams on building scalable processes to mitigate risk.

## Responsibilities

- Use sound judgment to navigate complex, high-risk decisions.

- Adhere to processes while questioning assumptions and suggesting improvements to balance user experience with compliance requirements.

- Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders, Stripe users, and financial partners.

- Identify and assess financial crime risks, conduct reviews using data analysis, and monitor for suspicious activity and trends.

- Facilitate business process redesign to improve efficiency, control, and compliance.

- Build and scale processes across the financial crimes operations ecosystem.

- Identify gaps in current systems, policies, and strategies, and recommend enhancements to mitigate emerging risks.

## Requirements

- 4+ years of experience in risk management, compliance, or financial operations.

- Understanding of FinCrime red flags, typologies, and identification methods.

- Experience in developing and implementing process improvements.

- Analytical and logical decision-making skills, considering internal and external factors.

- Effective communication skills, with clear and concise written and presentation materials.

- Policy development and regulatory knowledge, with experience in payment processing environments.

- Risk assessment experience, including merchant risk assessments, transaction monitoring, and risk-based compliance controls.

- Operational management experience, driving outcomes and managing large-scale operations.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Data analysis tools, such as SQL.

- Experience in transaction monitoring, financial investigations, sanctions, AML/EDD/KYC/KYB.

- Knowledge of payment processing systems and associated risks.

## Skills

### Required
- risk management
- compliance
- financial operations
- data analysis
- policy development
- regulatory knowledge
- risk assessment
- operational management

### Nice to have
- SQL
- transaction monitoring
- financial investigations
- sanctions
- AML/EDD/KYC/KYB
- payment processing systems

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