Our client is a leading payments tech company, with offices in Australia and Europe.  They are seeking an experienced risk officer, with at least 4 years’ experience in banking risk/credit and or card acquiring risk to join Nicosia team and reporting to the Chief Risk Officer. This is a highly autonomous role that interacts with the AMLCO, the Underwriting team, sales and operations and as well a unique opportunity to grow your experience, knowledge and skills in a world-leading technological ecosystem.

Key responsibilities:

• Participate as part of the underwriting process in data gathering and verifying key data points against independent sources.
• Assess existing and prospective business customers in accordance with the company risk manual and policy, with an emphasis on business sector, technical, commercial and credit risk.
• Review charge back and fraud statistics (and exceptional charge back cases ) for each customer, and recommend an upgrade or downgrade of risk score for existing and prospective customers.
• Recommend risk mitigation strategies including technical, commercial and credit, whilst factoring the business sector of the existing and prospective customers.

Candidate profile:

• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree
• Certified Fraud Examiner (ACFE) or similar qualification
• Knowledge of Banking, Card Acquiring and Card Scheme Rules
• Exposure to G2 or Webshield Services.
• Exceptional English