Senior Risk & AI Business Analyst
- Location
- Portugal
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- Posted
Skills
About this role
At Feedzai, we're building a world of safer money. A world where financial institutions move faster than criminals. Where the payments that fund real lives through salaries, savings, and businesses are protected in real time. We use trusted AI to detect and prevent financial crime, fraud, and money laundering at scale: the world's top banks, payment networks, and acquirers trust our technology to safeguard more than one billion consumers and $9 trillion in payment volume every year.
Feedzai is a Series D company and has raised $282M to date. With a valuation of $2 billion, our technology protects 1 billion consumers and 90 billion transactions each year.
You
As a Risk & AI Business Analyst, you will be the bridge between our clients’ business needs and our technical implementation teams. You will work closely with financial institution stakeholders, project managers, data engineers, and operations personnel to ensure successful deployment, configuration, and ongoing optimization of Feedzai’s fraud detection solution. Your insights will drive continuous improvement in alert efficiency, investigative processes, and overall fraud risk posture. This includes but is not limited to identifying business needs, proposing business solutions, writing user stories, functional testing, and business user training.
You will work alongside Risk Consultants, Data Scientists, and other Business Analysts side-by-side with some of the world’s largest financial institutions and merchants to help them fight fraud and unlock the full value of Feedzai’s platform.
Beyond your individual project responsibilities, you will contribute to the evolution of our ways of working, share expertise across the organization, and mentor other Business Analysts. You will act as a trusted advisor to both clients and internal teams, helping shape solutions and drive meaningful business outcomes.
Your Day-toDay
Requirements Gathering and Analysis
• Lead the analysis of complex, ambiguous, and high-impact business and risk challenges;
• Conduct workshops and interviews with client stakeholders to document business requirements, fraud scenarios, and investigative workflows.
• Translate regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., BSA/AML, PSD2 SCA) into system specifications.
• Challenge assumptions and requirements where appropriate, bringing industry expertise and alternative approaches to the discussion.
Solution Design & Configuration
• Own the business analysis workstream for complex implementations, operating independently from requirements definition through solution validation and deployment;
• Work hand-in-hand with the Solutions Architect to define a cohesive solution that solves the core client challenges aligned with product capabilities;
• Own data mapping & event flow definition. Drive data definition, mapping and validation.
Implementation, Testing & Adoption
• Develop detailed functional specifications for system configuration;
• Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT), develop test scripts, and validate that the solution meets business needs;
• Support customer training and adoption;
• Provide guidance on complex change requests, enhancements, and production issues, ensuring appropriate prioritization and resolution.
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