Financial Services Tech Risk Specialist

Soldo

Financial Services

Roma - Italien

Manager / Team Leader

Hybrid

Experteer Overview

As a Financial Services Tech Risk Specialist, you will design and operate AML and transaction monitoring rules across card payments and bank transfers to prevent fraud and financial crime. You’ll work within the Fintech tech risk team to tune controls, analyze alerts, and support regulatory and audit activities. The role combines hands-on rule management on platforms like Featurespace with collaboration across Risk, Compliance, Security, and Product Tech. You’ll help balance risk mitigation with a smooth customer experience while staying ahead of evolving regulatory requirements. This is a high-impact role in a fast-growing fintech that values proactive risk management and cross-functional,实

Compensation / Benefits

Competitive salary
Private healthcare coverage for you and your family
Lunch vouchers
Annual career development budget
Mentoring programme and training opportunities
Flexible working options (remote or Milan/Rome)

Responsibilities

Design, configure, and maintain transaction monitoring and AML rules for card payments and various bank transfers, coding rule logic on Featurespace; test, deploy, and maintain audit trails.
Participate in Risk & Compliance meetings to set priorities and manage the backlog.
Monitor alerts, support escalation, investigate, report, and analyze rule effectiveness and false positives.
Support risk analysis on transactions to identify fraud, AML, and financial crime risks.
Assist regulatory and audit activities with documentation, data analysis, and remediation explanations.
Stay updated on AML/CTF/sanctions requirements and emerging fraud trends in fintech/payments.
Coordinate with external providers for BAU operations and issue resolution.
Collaborate with FS Tech and Product Tech to enhance the transaction monitoring solution and fix data flow issues.
Contribute to testing and rollout of new payment products from a risk perspective.

Key requirements

Experience in financial services risk, AML, fraud, or transaction monitoring within fintech, bank, or equivalent payment institution.
Hands-on experience with AML and transaction monitoring tools (Featurespace preferred; Actimize, Feedzai, FICO, Stripe Radar, LexisNexis, SMASH or similar).
Proven ability to write, modify, and maintain risk rules and scenarios.
Strong understanding of AML/CTF frameworks, transaction monitoring methodologies, and card/bank transfer fraud typologies.
Experience with card payments and various bank transfer types (SEPA, SWIFT, Instant, Faster Payments, Bacs).
Strong analytical skills to interpret transactions and identify risk signals; ability to balance risk with customer experience.
Knowledge of regulatory expectations (EU AML directives, EBA).
Fluency in English.

Detail-oriented with ownership Strong problem-solving and decision-making Clear communicator of risk concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders SQL; data analysis tools; dashboards (Tableau, Power BI)Experience with machine learning–based monitoring tools Jira and Confluence

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