Senior Manager - Analytics and Portfolio Intelligence, Risk & Compliance

About the Role

As the Head of Analytics and Portfolio Intelligence, Risk & Compliance, you will be working as part of Nium's global, dynamic compliance team. This role is responsible for shaping how risk and compliance analytics, observability, and insight are designed, governed, and embedded into decision-making, beyond just meeting our reporting requirements internally and externally.

Purpose of the Role

. Move the organization from reactive risk reporting to proactive, explainable risk intelligence

. Strengthen regulatory confidence through transparent, auditable, and decision-oriented analytics

. Establish a sustainable operating model for risk and compliance intelligence that scales with the business

Key Responsibilities

1. Risk & Compliance Intelligence Strategy

. Define the risk and compliance intelligence strategy, aligned to regulatory expectations and business growth

. Translate complex regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements into clear analytics priorities, KRIs, and leadership insights

. Set standards for how risk information is produced, interpreted, and consumed across the organization

2. Observability & Insight Design

. Design observability frameworks for risk and compliance processes, including:

• data lineage and traceability
• explainability of risk decisions
• visibility into control effectiveness

. Identify structural gaps in monitoring, escalation, and risk signal quality

. Ensure insights support decision-making, not just reporting

3. Governance, Influence & Stakeholder Leadership

. Act as a senior partner to Risk, Compliance, Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations teams

. Lead governance discussions to prioritize risk initiatives and resolve trade-offs

. Influence senior stakeholders without direct authority, using data, judgment, and regulatory context

4. Regulatory & Control Enablement

. Strengthen regulatory readiness through analytics that are transparent, auditable, and explainable

. Support regulatory engagements, audits, and internal reviews with data-driven narratives

. Enhance consistency and traceability of risk decisions across the payments lifecycle

5. Capability & Operating Model Development

. Define the target operating model for Risk & Compliance Intelligence

. Assess tooling, data, and resourcing needs over time and build cases for investment

. Coach and mentor analysts and partner teams as the capability evolves

Requirements

. Bachelor's degree in Finance, Data Science, Business, or a related field

. At least 8 years experience in risk management, compliance, or audit roles

. Good understanding of the Payments/Fintech industry

. Strong ability to analyze complex data sets, interpret trends, and draw actionable conclusions.

. Proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) is a plus

. Familiarity with compliance frameworks

. Ability to communicate technical findings to non-technical stakeholders clearly and concisely

. Exceptional attention to detail to ensure accuracy in regulatory reporting

. A self-motivator with the ability to get things done

. Able to prioritise quickly and meet deadlines under pressure

. Team player with strong collaborative qualities