Risk Strategy Manager

PingPong Payments; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

PingPong is on a mission to digitize trade, simplifying global growth for businesses. We are scaling and looking for a commercially minded and execution-focused risk professional to join our US team and support the growth of our enterprise B2B business.

This role sits at the intersection of risk, compliance, business, product, and operations, with a strong focus on evaluating new business models, and POC to connect with headquarter teams for business success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in risk, payments, fintech, merchant acquiring, or a related risk strategy role.
• Experience in international payments and cross-border B2B payments.
• Experience working cross-functionally with commercial, operations, compliance, and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Assess enterprise B2B clients, partners, and new business opportunities.
• Identify key fraud, credit, operational, compliance, and partner-related risks.
• Provide clear and practical risk recommendations.
• Partner with Business Development, Product, Operations, Compliance, and other internal teams to align facts, requirements, and risk considerations across stakeholders.
• Act as a risk partner to the business by balancing commercial objectives with appropriate safeguards and governance.
• Monitor post-launch performance and emerging issues, and recommend adjustments to controls, strategies, workflows, and escalation paths where needed, having a good balance between risk and customer experience.

Skills

Risk management

Payments / fintech

B2B onboarding

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory compliance

Education

Finance degree

Job description

PingPong is on a mission to digitize trade, simplifying global growth for businesses. With $300B+ in payments processed, we're one of the world’s leading cross-border platforms – and we’re just getting started.

PingPong currently has 38 offices in 15 countries and over 1,500 employees. Our international presence helps

businesses solve complex payment needs in every major economy across all time zones.

Now, we're scaling and looking for a commercially minded and execution-focused risk professional to join our US team and support the growth of our enterprise B2B business.

WHAT’S THE CHALLENGE

This role will sit at the intersection of risk, compliance, business, product, and operations, with a strong focus on evaluating new business models, and POC to connect with headquarter teams for business success.

The role is designed for someone who can quickly understand how a business works, assess transaction and operational flows, identify major risks, and make sound judgments in fast-moving pace.

WHO YOU’LL BE WORKING WITH

You’ll work closely with:

• Business Development teams to assess and onboard enterprise merchants and new verticals
• Product and Operations to design scalable risk controls and monitoring frameworks
• Compliance and HQ Risk teams to ensure alignment with regulatory, scheme, and internal policy requirements

The role partners cross-functionally and plays a key advisory role in high-impact commercial decisions.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Assess enterprise B2B clients, partners, and new business opportunities
• Quickly understand client business models, transaction flows, operating structures, and product use cases to identify key fraud, credit, operational, compliance, and partner-related risks
• Provide clear and practical risk recommendations
• Partner with Business Development, Product, Operations, Compliance, and other internal teams to align facts, requirements, and risk considerations across stakeholders
• Act as a risk partner to the business by balancing commercial objectives with appropriate safeguards and governance
• Monitor post-launch performance and emerging issues, and recommend adjustments to controls, strategies, workflows, and escalation paths where needed, having a good balance between risk and customer experience.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 5+ years of experience in risk, payments, fintech, merchant acquiring, B2B onboarding, or a related risk strategy role
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience of enterprise B2B payment risk.
• Experience in international payments, cross-border B2B payments, merchant acquiring, or embedded finance
• Experience working cross-functionally with commercial, operations, compliance, and other stakeholders.

WHO YOU ARE

• Educated with a relevant Finance degree in business, project management or related field.
• Capable of absorbing large amounts of information and the ability to distil it down to the essentials to educate all internal stakeholders.
• Influence and advise leadership and business teams on necessary changes and execute against the objectives.
• Understand local regulatory requirements and ability to adapt to the global environment.
• Ability to juggle several projects and shift priorities as needed.
• Exhibiting a creative and innovative, forward-thinking approach to problem-solving.
• Adaptability; able to change priorities with speed and with minimal disruption.

PingPong is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer with a global culture that embraces diversity.

We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment.

Salary range (Annual base): $180,000–190,000