Risk Analyst

🕒 September 9

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $80.8k - $105k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🎲 Risk

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

👻 Ghost score 0%

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

💰 $75M Series C - Check on 2022-02

Fintech • SaaS • API

Check is a payroll infrastructure company that provides embedded payroll APIs and SaaS tools for platforms and businesses. It supplies the technology, operations, and support to build and scale payroll products — including money movement, tax calculation and filing, real-time payments, benefits and 401(k) integrations, workers’ compensation, fraud protection, and developer tools like an MCP and CLI. Check targets platforms from startups to public companies and advertises that it processes billions annually and serves large numbers of businesses and employees.

📋 Description

• Own and execute company reviews, payroll monitoring, and related processes • Communicate clearly across teams, partners, and customers • Analyze data to identify and act on emerging risk signals for companies and payrolls • Mitigate fraud incidents including account takeover, first-party fraud, and impersonation • Document fraud insights and drive resolutions with cross-functional teams • Contribute to documentation and process feedback loops • Support ad hoc analyses and small process-improvement projects alongside senior analysts • Build deep domain fluency and contribute to improving risk systems

🎯 Requirements

• 1-3 years of experience in risk and fraud investigation or a similar fintech analytics role • Detail-oriented working style and ability to manage investigations from start to finish • Excellent time management skills and ability to handle multiple cases simultaneously • Clear and professional communication with internal teams and external parties • Experience working in a fast-paced, data-driven environment and/or out of a busy queue • Comfort making judgment calls under ambiguity and knowing when to escalate versus resolve a case independently • An AI-adopter mindset, capable of iterating to solve complex problems and questioning/digging deeper on received output • Curiosity and willingness to learn new tools and skills • SQL experience is a plus, but not required • Ability to attend the annual 3-day company offsite in the spring • Must be eligible to work in the United States • Ability to perform all responsibilities remotely without distraction or disruption while maintaining quality, effective communication, and productivity

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Flexible PTO and sick leave • Generous paid parental leave for all new parents • Flexible return-to-work • 401k retirement plan • $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses • Medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage effective on the first day of work • Company offsites, events, and hackathons • Meals in offices on Tuesdays and Thursdays • Regular happy hours, game nights, and other in-person events