Outpost Technologies - Risk Manager
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Requirements
• Ideal background: • Ideal background: • 5-7 years in risk, compliance, or financial crime at a payments company or fintech (Stripe, Adyen, Revolut, Wise, Checkout.com, or similar) • Strong quantitative background - degree in STEM, economics, or similar (or demonstrable data science skills) • Strong quantitative background • Payments/fintech experience is mandatory - you need to understand how money moves and where risk lives • Payments/fintech experience is mandatory • Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (Python, R) for data analysis • Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language • Experience in 1LoD (first line of defence) - you've owned risk, not just overseen it • Bonus: MoR, marketplace, or cross-border payments experience • Bonus: worked in a regulated environment with direct regulator or banking partner interaction • Bonus: Experience building risk models, monitoring systems, or fraud detection algorithms • Bonus: machine learning or statistical modelling experience applied to risk/fraud • Data-driven decision making - you use statistical analysis and modelling, not just intuition • Data-driven decision making • Technical fluency - you can write SQL queries, build dashboards, and work with engineers on data pipelines • Technical fluency • Quantitative rigour - you understand statistical significance, false positive rates, and model performance metrics • Quantitative rigour • Pragmatic risk mindset - you enable growth safely, not block it bureaucratically • Pragmatic risk mindset • Regulatory fluency - you can read complex regulations and translate them into practical action • Regulatory fluency • Bias for action - you build controls and frameworks, not just write policies • Bias for action • Comfortable in chaos - you thrive when building from scratch in ambiguous environments • Commercial awareness - you understand the business model and make risk decisions that balance safety and growth • Commercial awareness • Strong communicator - you can explain risk to engineers, merchants, and regulators equally well • Strong communicator • What this role is not: • Not a pure 2LoD oversight role (you need to build and own, not just review) • Not someone who needs a team or established processes to be effective • Not a specialist who only wants to work on one risk domain (AML, fraud, etc.) • Not someone who sees risk as "saying no" (your job is to enable safe growth)
Responsibilities
• Own the risk function: • Build Outpost's risk management framework from scratch (policies, procedures, controls, and governance) • Identify, assess, document, and monitor risks across payments, tax, financial crime, and operations • Set risk appetite and tolerance levels in partnership with the CEO and founding team • Make the hard calls: what's acceptable risk vs. what could kill the business • Enable safe growth: • Enable safe growth: • Work with Product and Engineering to embed risk thinking into new product launches and market expansions • Conduct pre-launch risk assessments for new products, markets, and banking partnerships • Design practical, effective controls that protect the business without slowing it down • Ensure we can say "yes" to merchants safely (not just say "no" to risk) • Be the regulatory expert: • Stay ahead of regulatory changes across payments, MoR, tax, and financial crime in key markets (EU, UK, US, etc.) • Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance for product and operations teams • Represent Outpost in discussions with regulators, banking partners, and payment processors • Build relationships with external stakeholders and maintain regulatory credibility • Manage financial crime and operational risk: • Design and implement AML/fraud controls across 58+ jurisdictions • Monitor transaction patterns, investigate suspicious activity, and manage incident response • Own the control environment for payments, settlements, and treasury operations • Work with Operations to identify and remediate operational risk gaps • Build the infrastructure: • Develop KRIs (Key Risk Indicators) and MI (Management Information) to track risk exposure in real-time • Implement risk incident management processes - logging, investigating, and remediating issues • Create training and enablement materials so the whole team understands their risk responsibilities • Build scalable systems and processes that grow with the business • 💥 Example Projects • Conduct risk assessment for launching in 5 new EU markets and design the compliance playbook • Improve our AML transaction monitoring rules to catch real fraud without creating false positive nightmare • Work with Engineering to build automated controls for payment routing and settlement risk • Analyse six months of payment data to identify the top 10 risk drivers and build mitigation strategies • Create a quantitative risk scoring model for new market launches based on regulatory complexity, fraud rates, and operational readiness • Build automated KRI dashboards that alert on risk threshold breaches • Build a data pipeline that aggregates risk signals from payments, tax, and operations into a unified view
Benefits
• This isn't about managing an existing risk function. It's about building the risk infrastructure that powers global commerce from the ground up. You won't just be in the room, you'll be defining how we manage risk. • building the risk infrastructure that powers global commerce • defining how we manage risk • You'll have exposure to every part of the business: payments, tax, compliance, treasury, operations. You'll work directly with the founding team. You'll shape the controls that let us scale safely into new markets. • The problems are hard. The scope is massive. The impact is real. • We expect whoever is in this role to grow rapidly, and we'll back you every step of the way. • 🦾 Outpost Team • Our team were leaders at Revolut, Airwallex, Adyen and Wayflyer - and we're backed by top-tier investors who have built or backed some of the world's leading fintechs. • Team member Role Experience Will Mahon-Heap CEO / Founder ex. Revolut, ex. Wayflyer, ex. lawyer Artur Zheykars Head of Engineering ex. Revolut, ex. Align Technology Stef van Heugten Founding Head of Tax ex. Adyen, ex. VU Amsterdam Anca Maszni Founding Strategy and Operations ex. VC, ex. Ophelos, ex. Wayflyer • Equity and salary in a well-funded startup • Ability to own your work and move fast • own your work and move fast • World-class training from operators who've scaled globally • A global mission with real impact • Low politics, high output • Chance to grow into Head of Risk as we scale • A culture of builders, not box-tickers • 🧭 Working Style • We work together in person in London or Amsterdam, 4-5 days a week. We believe the hardest problems are solved in the room. • London or Amsterdam • 4-5 days a week • 🌎 Reach Out • [email protected] • Learn more • Outpost Culture • Outpost founder • Outpost is where the hard problems are. If you want to build the risk function that enables global trade, we'd love to hear from you. • Bonus points if you find our founder's WhatsApp and hustle him
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