Top Risk Analyst Jobs in Seattle, WA

The Payments Risk Analyst researches transaction patterns, customer behavior, fraud, and suspicious activity to identify financial and compliance risks. The role prioritizes risk alerts, recommends actions for exposed accounts, develops risk-reduction policies, and collaborates with Product, Engineering, and CX teams on fraud monitoring, reporting, and process improvements. Responsibilities include managing risks related to returns, reversals, chargebacks, and payment-network requirements while communicating decisions effectively to customers and leadership.

Supports Credit Risk Review through independent risk analysis, portfolio monitoring, reporting, dashboard development, automation, and process improvement. The role identifies emerging credit risks, trends, concentrations, and outliers; develops scalable analytical solutions; improves data quality and reporting efficiency; and prepares insights for senior management and governance committees. It partners with review teams and risk stakeholders to strengthen continuous monitoring, independent challenge, risk intelligence, and evidence-based oversight.

Manages and enhances the organization’s risk management program through complex risk assessments, policy oversight, variance and trend analysis, risk reporting, issue resolution, and escalation. The role works cross-functionally, supports independent assessments, develops risk processes and procedures, and serves as a subject matter expert in a designated risk discipline.

Entry-level Risk Analyst supporting reinsurance brokers with client data analysis, submission preparation, market research, financial analysis, contract documentation, account renewals, and client service. The role develops broking, analytical, communication, and relationship-management skills while preparing candidates for future Account Executive responsibilities. It is a hybrid position requiring at least three office days weekly and is designed for students graduating in December 2026 or spring 2027.

Supports captive insurance management through financial reporting, cash management, renewals, claims analysis, actuarial data coordination, regulatory compliance, governance, and oversight of captive administrators. Prepares financial analyses, monitors premiums and claims, manages insurance transactions, and facilitates board, advisory committee, and finance meetings.

Own credit risk policy optimization, limit-setting, experimentation, forecasting, and portfolio monitoring. Design A/B tests, build performance reporting and dashboards, identify emerging risks, and partner with Machine Learning, Product, Engineering, and Operations to improve risk models and customer outcomes. Monitor deployed model performance and translate analytical findings into actionable policy and product changes.

Supports the bank’s enterprise and operational risk management programs by maintaining risk metrics, dashboards, registers, assessments, policies, and regulatory documentation. The role monitors framework adherence, coordinates risk reporting, supports business continuity and resiliency testing, evaluates incentive compensation compliance, and assists with audits and regulatory examinations. It requires financial-services risk or compliance experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and familiarity with risk frameworks and GRC tools.

Reviews and underwrites new merchant applications for KYC, AML, card-brand, processor, and regulatory compliance. Analyzes flagged transactions, merchant histories, and payment-processing statements to assess risk and recommend approvals or limits. Supports fraud detection and risk-management improvements, handles payment-related inquiries and escalations, and collaborates with internal teams and external partners.

Analyze applicant and account data to support credit underwriting, fraud detection, portfolio monitoring, delinquency management, and collections strategies. Interpret business financial statements, banking data, and credit reports; build dashboards, behavioral segments, and performance cohorts; and evaluate credit product profitability, customer lifetime value, losses, and risk-adjusted returns. Communicate findings to influence risk management and product strategy.

Investigates complex, high-risk user business cases and makes evidence-based risk decisions in ambiguous situations. The role develops tailored mitigation strategies, collaborates with Risk, Legal, Compliance, Product, and partners, communicates findings to varied audiences, engages directly with users, identifies systemic trends, and improves processes, decision frameworks, documentation, playbooks, and tooling.

Monitor and configure trade risk across FX/CFD accounts, investigate abnormal trading and client abuse, review suspicious accounts, and oversee live positions, margin, leverage, and execution settings. Build Python and SQL monitoring tools, dashboards, and investigation reports. Manage liquidity-bridge relationships, contribute to risk policies and controls, and respond to management and support requests.

Own diligence and underwriting for institutional counterparties, recommend internal credit ratings and risk-based limits, monitor portfolio exposures, analyze asset volatility/liquidity for limit-setting, negotiate industry documentation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex client or product issues.

Reviews fraud appeals, high-risk transactions, pending payments, user behavior, and chargeback or representment cases. Matches payment and identity documentation, evaluates fraud risk across business lines, handles customer escalations, follows and updates SOPs, meets SLA and accuracy targets, and reports fraud trends to strategy teams. The role also supports blacklist releases, whitelisting, transaction approvals, and enforcement of policies across a global user base.

Detect and prevent fraudulent financial activity by monitoring transactions, investigating incidents, recording fraud losses, conducting root-cause analysis, improving controls, tracking emerging threats, supporting fraud-management infrastructure, and providing fraud-awareness training and guidance to business units.

Analyze financial transactions to detect fraud, investigate incidents, record losses, identify root causes, improve controls, monitor emerging threats, maintain fraud intelligence networks, support fraud risk infrastructure, and provide awareness training and guidance to business and support teams.

Analyzes financial transactions to detect and prevent fraud, investigates incidents, records losses, performs root cause analysis, and recommends control improvements. The role monitors emerging fraud threats, maintains industry intelligence networks, supports fraud risk infrastructure, and provides training and guidance to business and support teams on fraud awareness and mitigation.

Reviews fraud appeals, high-risk transactions, pending reviews, chargebacks, and representment cases. Analyzes user behavior, payment details, proof documents, fraud trends, and business-line risk factors to determine appropriate actions. Handles escalations, blacklist releases, whitelisting, and customer responses according to SOPs. Ensures cases meet SLA and accuracy requirements while identifying emerging fraud patterns and supporting compliance across global users.

Analyze financial transactions to detect and prevent fraud, investigate incidents, document losses, identify root causes, improve controls, monitor emerging fraud trends, maintain industry intelligence networks, support fraud-risk infrastructure, and provide fraud-awareness training to business and support teams.

Reviews and investigates fraud alerts, monitoring reports, and cases across accounts, cards, transactions, devices, and relationships. Identifies fraud patterns, documents findings, takes card actions, escalates suspicious or urgent activity to BSA/AML Operations, and maintains regulatory, quality, production, and SLA standards. Handles fraud-related cardholder calls and records all activity in Actimize and tracking spreadsheets.

As a Risk Analyst, you will evaluate product safety, analyze data using SQL, improve policies, and enhance user experience.

Perform customer due diligence and regulatory verification for client onboarding. Review onboarding packages, perform identity and sanctions screening, validate ownership and licenses, complete Payment Network checks, maintain client files, document exceptions, support Senior Compliance Managers, and improve SOPs to ensure compliant onboarding.

Lead credit analytics for the Send Now Pay Later product: build and own valuation and vintage models, manage credit policies, monitor portfolio health and NPL trends, integrate ML scorecards, and evaluate alternative data to optimize approvals and loss performance.

Lead credit analytics for the Send Now Pay Later product: build and maintain credit policies, valuation and NPV models, vintage analysis, executive reporting, model integration and testing, and alternative data integration to optimize approval rates and portfolio health.

Lead credit analytics for the Send Now Pay Later product: build and maintain credit policies, valuation and NPV models, vintage analysis, portfolio surveillance, executive reporting, model integration/testing, and alternative data exploration to optimize approval rates and manage portfolio risk.

Lead credit analytics for the Send Now Pay Later product: own portfolio health reporting, NPL trends, valuation and NPV models, vintage analysis, credit policy design, monitoring, model integration and testing, and alternative data exploration to optimize approval rates and loss performance.