Senior Risk Analyst

Are you passionate about risk management and helping businesses navigate complex challenges? As part of our Global Risk Function, you'll play a key role in executing our Risk Assessment Program, supporting senior management in understanding and mitigating business and compliance risks. Join us to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic and collaborative environment!

You will be responsible for: 

• Reporting to the Head of Risk Assessments, you will work to identify and assess risks throughout the assigned business lines by supporting risk assessment program. This includes financial crime risk assessment and Markets compliance risk assessment for various legal entities of Convera. 
• Update tools, dashboards and internal databases used for Risk Assessment. 
• Utilize data analytics tools to analyse large datasets (client transaction and trading activity), identify patterns for assessments.  
• Develop and maintain risk profiles for customers, products, and geographic locations based on risk assessment findings.
• Support risk assessment process to meet defined schedules and agreed deliverables. Including the collection / review of regional KRIs for risk assessment purposes.
• To maintain the Entity/County/Region/Global level risk registers and produce risk reporting as appropriate.
• Manage the relationship with leadership, regional first line of defense teams, Compliance teams, Board of Directors and Risk Committees.

You should apply if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in risk management, Business or a related field 
• Right to work in the country based. 
• At least 5 years of experience in a Risk Assessment, Risk Analytics or AML/Financial crime in a financial institution or similar field where investigative/ research skills and approaches are employed. 
• Expertise in data analysis techniques, statistical modelling, and risk assessment methodologies. 
• Able to conduct sound research to gather relevant information from various sources, and apply suitable analytical skills to discover insights, draw conclusions and provide appropriate recommendations. 
• Strong sense of integrity, self-driven, inquisitive, and resourceful.
• Proficiency with online research tools/databases and data analytics tools. Working knowledge of Power BI 
• Excellent written and oral communication, including presenting technical risk information is clear, meaningful language 
• Experience of working collaboratively with stakeholders at different levels 
• Problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills 

About Convera

Convera is the largest non-bank B2B cross-border payments company in the world. Formerly Western Union Business Solutions, we leverage decades of industry expertise and technology-led payment solutions to deliver smarter money movements to our customers – helping them capture more value with every transaction. Convera serves more than 30,000 customers ranging from small business owners to enterprise treasurers to educational institutions to financial institutions to law firms to NGOs.

Our teams care deeply about the value we bring to our customers which makes Convera a rewarding place to work. This is an exciting time for our organization as we build our team with growth-minded, results-oriented people who are looking to move fast in an innovative environment. 

As a truly global company with employees in over 20 countries, we are passionate about diversity; we seek and celebrate people from different backgrounds, lifestyles, and unique points of view. We want to work with the best people and ensure we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging.

We offer an abundance of competitive perks and benefits including: 

• Market competitive monthly gross salary start at 2,900 EUR 
• Opportunity to earn an annual bonus 
• Great career growth and development opportunities in a global organization
• A flexible approach to work (6-10 days per month in the office)
• Generous insurance (health, disability, life) 
• Paid holidays, time-off, and leave policies for life events (maternity, paternity, adoption)
• Work from abroad 60 days per year
• Paid volunteering opportunities (5 days per year)

There are plenty of amazing opportunities at Convera for talented, creative problem solvers who never settle for good enough and are looking to transform Business to Business payments. Apply now if you’re ready to unleash your potential.

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