Senior Director, Risk Analytics

Paysafe is a leading payments platform with an extensive track record of serving merchants and consumers in the global entertainment sectors. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry‑leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With 29 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of $152 billion in 2024, and approximately 3,300 employees located in 12+ countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in 48 currencies around the world.

Delivered through an integrated platform, Paysafe solutions are geared toward mobile‑initiated transactions, real‑time analytics and the convergence between brick‑and‑mortar and online payments.

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Paysafe is currently searching for a Director, Risk Analytics to join our team.

The Director Risk Analytics role will leverage significant payments experience, as well as top‑rate analytical skills, to be responsible for owning the strategy for supporting the Global Risk and Compliance organization with analytics that both monitors performance and proactively identifies opportunities for performance improvement.

He/she will do this by leading the team that is responsible for conceptualizing and developing data‑driven risk solutions by applying advanced analytical techniques.

This individual will play a critical role in the Global Risk and Compliance organization as we require our strategies to be based on sound data. The Risk Analytics team will be responsible for both monitoring performance and proactively identifying emerging trends and issues in the merchant and consumer risk profiles and translating those findings into insights that drive action by the wider team.

• Being open and honest.
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• Pioneering the future.

Our values and culture are driven by Equality, Development, Social Responsibility and Wellbeing. If you want to find out more about life at Paysafe, check out our careers page.

We follow a hybrid working model, spending an average of three days per week at our office location. The office is located in Gresham Street next to St Paul’s cathedral with easy access and transport links via St Paul’s, Bank, Cannon Street, City Thameslink, Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Mansion House.

• Develop and own a framework for evaluating the performance of the Risk and Compliance team holistically and using this to drive improved strategies.
• Build and implement the strategic plan for implementing this framework in a structured manner that ensures that the biggest gaps are closed first, while identifying and closing new gaps as our focus, strategy and understanding evolves.
• Understand, challenge and inform the Risk & Compliance department’s goals and strategies, and support it with provision of data and analysis for decision making.
• Collaborate closely with the Data Platform team, as a demanding and informed customer, to ensure that the data used is reliable and meaningful, and with the wider Risk and Compliance team to ensure that the insights are clearly understood and drive required action.
• Lead, develop and scale a team of 8-12 high‑performing strategy and data analysts to conduct in‑depth data analysis and proactively identify emerging trends.
• Monitor Key Risk indicators and develop early warning systems to mitigate risks and highlight potential new trends, as well as to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Work closely with the data engineering team to enhance the database and suggest any possible automation.
• Be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all performance data related to the Risk department (Consumer and Merchant).
• Act as one of the leaders of the wider Risk & Compliance function both within the team and in interactions with other teams across Paysafe.

• Deep understanding of the card payments industry in multiple markets, including knowledge of payment processing systems, transaction dynamics, and regulatory frameworks (e.g., PCI DSS and…