Risk Partnerships Manager, Banks & Treasury

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in London seeks a senior risk partnerships lead to collaborate with global banking partners to strengthen the company's payments, treasury, and cross-border fund flows. You will guide risk strategies and coordinate with product, engineering, and legal teams to align risk posture with business goals.

The role requires 10+ years in risk roles, strong stakeholder management, and a proven ability to manage complex cross-border relationships with banks and fintechs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in a risk-related role at a bank or fintech
• Deep knowledge of bank payment schemes and networks (e.g. FPS, BACs, SEPA, ACH)
• Ability to represent the company on risk, compliance, and product issues with banking partners

Responsibilities

• Lead risk-focused initiatives with global financial partners (banks, networks, payment methods)
• Foster new business opportunities and improve risk methodologies
• Establish and maintain compliance with agreed risk appetites
• Oversee relationships with key risk counterparts at partner banks
• Develop and manage projects supporting risk-aware partnerships
• Drive risk-related discussions with banking partners to align approaches

Skills

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Bank/fintech experience

Process improvement

Job description

Who we are About the company

the company is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use the company to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Risk Partnerships team is an essential part of the company's Global Partnerships organization. Our team is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with key partner banks to manage risk for the company's business activities. These banking partnerships are essential to enable the company to accept and make payments, provide credit, move & store money and develop new products and solutions to meet our users' needs. We work across a broad range of risk and compliance topics including; credit, fraud, regulatory, financial crime, reputational, product and operational risks.

What you’ll do

We are seeking a new team member to collaborate with key banking partners throughout the UK, Europe and the company's global partner network. These partners will work with the company to develop and deliver solutions that will build our Global Payments and Treasury Network. This role will support the company's goals to enable users to send and receive payments domestically and internationally, store funds securely, earn yield on those funds, and enable multi-currency fund flows.

Risk management is essential for managing these relationships, and this role requires a broad understanding of risk disciplines across banking activities, including accepting and making payments, money storage & transmission, and multi-currency/cross border fund flow.

This role will lead activities to enhance risk management interactions between the company and its partners, manage key aspects of the partner relationships, and execute high-impact initiatives.

This role will work closely with key internal and external stakeholders to set objectives, coordinate priorities and drive execution. Internally, this role will coordinate closely with product and engineering teams, and cross-functional stakeholders including Risk, Fraud, Financial Crime & Supportability, Operations, Legal and Finance. Externally, this role will work closely with Partners' Risk & Compliance teams, including senior management.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk-focused initiatives in collaboration with global financial partners (banks, networks, payment methods) to:
• Foster new business opportunities and user verticals
• Innovate on shared risk methodologies
• Establish and maintain compliance with agreed risk appetites
• Oversee and maintain the health of relationships with key risk counterparts at partner banks
• Develop and manage projects and initiatives that support strong partner relationships regarding risk
• Deliver business and policy recommendations that inform our risk posture
• Act as a representative and negotiator of our risk approach to banking partners
• Enhance existing and develop new partner-facing risk management capabilities
• Lead risk-related partnership and product discussions with banking partners to align on risk approaches and strategies
• Identify and pursue business opportunities by creating innovative risk-aware solutions that expand our product and user base through banking partnerships

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 10+ years experience in risk-related role at a bank or fintech with experience of products & services that enabled users to send and receive payments domestically and internationally, store funds securely, earn yield on those funds, and enable multi-currency fund flows.
• Demonstrated deep knowledge and experience of working with bank payment schemes and networks (e.g. FPS, BACs, SEPA, ACH and local equivalents)
• A deep knowledge of risk and compliance issues.
• Ability to represent the company on risk, compliance, and product issues with banking partners to maintain positive relationships.
• Strong organizational, planning, and communication skills (written and verbal) to drive understanding, collaboration, and issue resolution.
• Curiosity and a partnership mindset focused on improving processes and scaling solutions.
• First-hand experience in risk management at a bank or fintech
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including navigating difficult situations, negotiating timelines, and influencing stakeholders across organizations and borders.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to thrive in uncertain and ambiguous environments.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience of financial crime programmes including; KYC/B, AML, Sanctions and Terrorist Financing, with a practical knowledge of the Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering regulations.
• A deep understanding of domestic & international payment schemes (e.g. FPS, CHAPS, BACs, SEPA, ACH, Wire)
• Strong understanding of the complex risks that are present when managing crossborder payments, including the management of high risk sectors.
• Market experience across UK & Europe, with an understanding of how current and future regulations will impact the company and its banking partners.
• Experience of leveraging technology to support the development and embedment of scalable risk and operational processes.

About Us

At the company, we're building a financial system for the internet. We're hiring talented people like you to help us make this vision a reality.