Payments Risk Assessment Specialist

Payments Risk Assessment Specialist role involves reviewing and authoring payments risk and control assessments, evaluating inherent risk, and identifying control gaps. The role requires strong analytical and written communication skills, comfort with payments risk lenses, and experience in payments risk assessment or bank operational risk.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in payments risk assessment, bank operational risk, risk and control self-assessment (RCSA), issue management, risk and controls, compliance risk assessment, or banking risk advisory
• Comfort with standard payments risk lenses: execution and accuracy, authorization and fraud, data integrity, timeliness and cut-offs, client impact, and regulatory/compliance impact
• Strong command of inherent risk scoring drivers — transaction value and volume, time sensitivity, geographic footprint, client harm, regulatory and operational impact, reputational impact, and historical signals (operational risk events, KRIs, issues, limits, external events)
• Excellent analytical and written communication skills
• Comfortable working independently with digital tools