Risk Strategy Manager, Enterprise B2B Payments

The Challenge

This role sits at the intersection of risk, compliance, business, product, and operations, with a strong focus on evaluating new business models and acting as a point of connection between commercial teams and central risk functions to drive business success.

The role is designed for someone who can quickly understand how a business works, assess transaction and operational flows, identify major risks, and make sound judgments at pace.

Who You’ll Be Working With

You’ll work closely with:

• Business Development teams to assess and onboard enterprise merchants and new verticals
• Product and Operations to design scalable risk controls and monitoring frameworks
• Compliance and central Risk teams to ensure alignment with regulatory, scheme, and internal policy requirements

The role partners cross-functionally and plays a key advisory role in high-impact commercial decisions.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Assess enterprise B2B clients, partners, and new business opportunities
• Quickly understand client business models, transaction flows, operating structures, and product use cases to identify key fraud, credit, operational, compliance, and partner-related risks
• Provide clear and practical risk recommendations
• Partner with Business Development, Product, Operations, Compliance, and other internal teams to align facts, requirements, and risk considerations across stakeholders
• Act as a risk partner to the business by balancing commercial objectives with appropriate safeguards and governance
• Monitor post-launch performance and emerging issues, and recommend adjustments to controls, strategies, workflows, and escalation paths where needed, maintaining a good balance between risk and customer experience

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in risk, payments, fintech, merchant acquiring, B2B onboarding, or a related risk strategy role
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience of enterprise B2B payment risk
• Experience in international payments, cross-border B2B payments, merchant acquiring, or embedded finance
• Quantitative skills
• Experience working cross-functionally with commercial, operations, compliance, and other stakeholders

Who You Are

• Educated to degree level in a relevant field such as finance, business, project management, or similar
• Capable of absorbing large amounts of information and distilling it down to the essentials to educate internal stakeholders
• Able to influence and advise leadership and business teams on necessary changes and execute against objectives
• Understands local regulatory requirements with the ability to adapt to a global environment
• Able to juggle several projects and shift priorities as needed
• Brings a creative, innovative, forward-thinking approach to problem-solving
• Adaptable; able to change priorities with speed and minimal disruption