Risk Analyst

6 days ago

Reading, United Kingdom UTP Merchant Services Ltd Full time

We are now looking for a Risk Analyst to join our busy team in Reading

**Hours of Work**: Full-Time - Office Based (37.5 hours Monday to Friday)

**Salary**: £23-25,000 per annum. (DOE)

Reporting into the Risk, Fraud and Compliance Officer and working as part of the department’s Compliance Operation, the Risk, Fraud and Compliance Analyst will be responsible for monitoring areas of exposure, maintaining internal processes, calculating,and reviewing operational risk and compliance matters, and monitoring the Company’s Fraud Detection System (FDS) for unusual patterns or behaviour.

**Risk Analyst Duties**:
Rapidly develop a thorough understanding of the payments industry and the market sector we operate within, together with a thorough understanding of the services we have on offer.
- Monitor and manage the Company’s Fraud Detection System to ensure it is correctly tracking potential fraud risks.
- Review system duplications for any suspicious accounts
- Reporting of suspected fraudulent payments and other areas of concern flagged by the FDS system.
- Monitor and track any other risk events facing the business.
- Detect and immediately report any money laundering concerns.
- Act as first point of contact for queries relating to the UTP Shield alert system.
- Manage and complete PCI attestation for the Group.
- Act as first point of contact for internal queries relating to risk, fraud, and compliance.
- Review Data Loss Prevention Alerts and escalate if further investigation is required.
- Review requests for data deletion from previous service users and complete once confirmed.
- Compete investigations with merchants into suspicious transactions or activity.

**Risk Analyst Requirements**:

- Assess potential risk exposure
- Possess strong IT skills
- An ability to multitask and prioritise effectively
- Analyse information with a key eye for detail
- Strong organisation and time management skills
- Can approach problems in a thorough and logical manner
- Strong telephone and customer service skills
- Be a confident decision maker
- Must be a quick learner, willing to learn new processes and procedures
- Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced, ever changing work environment with multiple priorities
- Living within a reasonable commute of Reading.

**About the Company**:
UTP Merchant Services Limited and its sister company Faster Processing Limited are two of the fastest growing, innovative fintech organisations in the UK.Through a mixture of innovation and a focus on delivering outstanding customer service, we are committedto providing our customer base with market leading credit and debit card processing solutions.

With a customer base of over 20,000 customers, approximately £3 billion is processed across UTP’s estate of credit card machines each year with many hundreds of new customers being added monthly.

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