Senior Payments Risk Analyst

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About the role

  • Senior Payments Risk Analyst owning fraud monitoring and risk decisions for Velora Pay. Scaling payment protection through automation, AI, and detection rules for nonprofit organizations.

Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day transaction monitoring and fraud / risk review for Velora Pay
  • Investigate suspicious activity end-to-end and document outcomes consistently and audibly
  • Design, test, and iterate detection rules and monitoring workflows
  • Build practical automation to reduce manual review load
  • Partner with Customer Success on merchant and customer risk issues
  • Partner with IT, Compliance, and security stakeholders on payments risk alignment
  • Create playbooks, prioritization, and feedback loops for a team-of-one operating model
  • Use AI and data tools to accelerate investigations, identify patterns, and propose rule or process changes
  • Track leakage caught, review effort, and false positives to continuously improve processes
  • Enable safe, scalable onboarding of additional customers onto Velora Pay

Requirements

  • About 5+ years of hands-on payments fraud / risk analysis experience
  • Proven ownership of fraud or risk outcomes, including judgment under ambiguity
  • Ability to operate autonomously as a team of one and create structure without heavy management overhead
  • Familiarity with payment processors, payment rails, and fraud tooling
  • Experience implementing AI or meaningful automation in a risk, fraud, operations, or similar workflow
  • Clear, candid communication and ability to collaborate with Customer Success, compliance, and engineering partners
  • Strong business awareness connecting risk decisions to customer trust, payment volume growth, and nonprofit impact
  • Strong interest in building technical solutions with AI, potentially including SQL, APIs, and internal processes
  • Experience working with Stripe or a similar platform is an asset

Benefits

  • 4 weeks paid leave plus 11 days of public holidays in Canada
  • Extra 2 week company holiday through an end-of-year shutdown
  • Generous paid sick leave
  • Remote-first work arrangement within approved hire locations
  • Training support
  • Conference or course ticket coverage
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage in Canada and the US
  • 4% retirement match in Canada and the US

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$90,000 - CA$125,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Ruby on RailsSQL

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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