Payment Specialist – Compliance Data Analyst

Overview

In this role, you will steward the sanctions screening platform to ensure fast, accurate, and reliable checks against watchlists. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to reduce false positives, adapt to regulatory changes, and extend coverage to new payment types. You’ll operate in a high-growth fintech environment where precise data-driven decisions matter. This is an opportunity to shape risk screening at scale and contribute to a secure payments platform.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day running of the screening platform (Fircosoft Continuity) to keep it healthy and reliable
• Design and test rules to cut false positives and reduce manual case work
• Manage watchlist updates and configurations to stay ahead of regulatory change
• Extend screening to new payment types and build automated testing to ensure improvements stick

Key requirements

• 2–3 years’ experience in an analytical or data-focused role
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to turn data into decisions
• Hands-on data skills with SQL and/or Python
• Experience working with rules, logic or system configuration, and testing them
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical people
• Comfort in a fast-moving, high-performance and high-growth environment

• Clear communication
• Analytical mindset
• Problem-solving
• SQL
• Python
• Rules/configuration/testing of screening systems

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