Risk Operations Analyst

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Risk Operations is responsible for managing the risk relationships spanning across global payment method, card, and financial partners. It is our mission to build operational controls to mitigate user and partner risk and enable strategic development opportunities.

What you’ll do

As a Risk Operations Analyst you will be working to ensure our policies, operations, and workflows align to the needs of our financial partners You will be accountable for workflows impacting a variety of cross-functional internal and external stakeholders to identify and assess regulatory, contractual, and partner risk. Further, you will influence and advise operational teams in building out scalable operational processes to ensure compliance with service level agreements, routine reporting, and overall risk mitigation.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate sound judgment and an ability to navigate non-binary, high-risk decisions

Evaluate merchants, from successful venture-backed startups to well established institutions by assessing suitability to process on Stripe

Adhere closely to process while still constantly questioning assumptions, suggesting improvements, and following up implementation of those improvements

Effectively and clearly communicate, including with other Stripes, Stripe's users, and Stripe's financial partners

Identify trends and further report these to cross functional teams to enhance detection systems

Contribute to projects to enhance a