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The Role

• The Risk Partnerships team at Flutterwave is primarily responsible for managing the risk and compliance function of our relationships with financial partners including acquiring banks, issuing banks, and card networks (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover).
• The team serves as the main point of contact with these partners on behalf of cross functional teams within Flutterwave in order to advocate for product and user needs that allow us to move rapidly to develop new products and expand the supportability of new user types.
• Risk Partnership Managers will navigate complex negotiations with our partners while simultaneously driving stronger alignment with them on Flutterwave’s long term roadmap.

In this role you will:

• Understand the acquiring bank, issuing bank and card network requirements that govern Flutterwave’s products.
• Develop deep relationships with leadership at our financial partners and card networks to ensure long term alignment, reducing escalations.
• Advocate for Flutterwave’s product and user needs with partners by negotiating terms of agreements, including restricted / prohibited business lists and applicability of network rules that are mis-aligned with regional needs of our users.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders (e.g. Product Managers, Engineering, Compliance, User Policy, Risk Strategy, and Legal) to resolve key contractual or network rule blockers in order to expand our product offering and diversity of user types.

Required Competencies and Skills to be a Waver

• 7+ years experience in payments at a card network, an acquiring bank or related payments technology company.
• Deep understanding of card network rules.
• Experience in external partner management.
• Strong project management skills.
• Solutions based mindset when working cross functionally across various stakeholders
• Negotiating with product, engineering, sales and legal to ensure alignment.

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The Role

• Within the Risk team, as a Risk Strategist you will serve as the internal consultant to various cross functional teams including product, engineering, partnerships and growth on all topics related to risk and card network rules.
• The ideal candidate will use their expertise in risk to advise on new product development, prioritization of market expansion, risk management strategies and establishing internal controls.
• Risk Strategist will develop recommendations that ensure Flutterwave can move rapidly while managing risk in every aspect.

In this role you will:

• Collaborate with key stakeholders (e.g. Product Managers, Engineering, Compliance, User Policy, Risk Partnerships, Legal, etc) to evaluate the development of new products and advise on the risk / fraud-related requirements and controls that need to be established to ensure Flutterwave manages product / transaction risk.
• Establish the risk appetite for both individual products and across Flutterwave’s entire portfolio.
• Lead ad hoc risk-related projects end-to-end to support market expansion, new products or risk management.
• Be the internal expert on card network (Visa / Mastercard / Amex / Discover) rules and our acquiring or issuing bank contractual requirements.
• Conduct research, analyze data and put forth recommendations and proposals that drive decisions on product, risk management and partnerships.  
• Take ownership of undefined bodies of work and create a structured process that allows Flutterwave to move fast in identifying and executing on opportunities.
• Own the product risk assessment process for rollouts of new products or enhancements.
• Influence risk / compliance product and engineering roadmaps.

Required Competencies and skills to be a waver

• 7+ years experience in payments at a card network, an acquiring bank or related payments technology company.
• Deep understanding of risk and fraud
• Experience analyzing and interpreting card network rules
• Strong project management experience
• Solutions based mindset when working cross functionally across various stakeholders
• Negotiating with product, engineering, sales and legal to ensure alignment.