Lithic creates card issuing and payment infrastructure for technology companies that just works.

We help some of the world’s fastest-growing digital banks, fintech companies, and software companies process billions in transactions annually.

We are hiring a Senior Data Analyst to support the Risk Compliance organization with strong problem solving, communication, and technical skills to deliver insights into the presence of current risks, and the likelihood and impact of those we have yet to encounter.

This role will sit on the Analytics team and work closely with cross-functional teams across Risk, Compliance, Product, and Engineering to create, evaluate, and drive continuous improvement of risk policies, limits, rules, alerts, and dashboards.

This role is critical to enabling Lithic and our customers to optimize our risk control and monitoring efforts. Responsibilities:Deep dive into past and ongoing trends and provide data driven insights that identify and predict risky behavior that could result in outsized operational, financial, and reputational losses for Lithic and our customersDevelop customer and program segmentation frameworks to enable proportionate monitoring across varied use cases and industriesIdentify rule criteria, test and validate rule output, and report on portfolio and rule performance in ways that influence Lithic's risk strategy; support fraud authorization rule management for managed services clientsCreate dashboards to monitor performance across relevant metrics and create alerts to highlight any anomalies or unusual trendsIdentify new approaches and data sources that could help us better understand various forms of risk, and partner with our operations, and product and engineering teams to implement themBuild relationships with our customer-facing teams (and occasionally our customers themselves) to best inform our approach to managing risk in a way that enables prudent growthSupport risk assessments, audits, and ad-hoc projects as assigned

Qualifications

:2+ years in financial services risk, fraud, or compliance roles, or equivalent experience investigating payments fraud and translating findings into actionable rules or policies; issuer or processor experience a plusExcellent analytical thinking and problem-solving, with experience leveraging large datasets to drive assessments and decisionsExpert SQL skills (we use Snowflake but are open to all dialects); experience with dbt and Python preferredExperience building reusable, well-documented analyses rather than one-off queries; comfort with analytics engineering practices (git, command line, modular data modeling) a plusExperience creating performance monitoring dashboards using Metabase, Looker, or similar BI toolsOutstanding communication and influence skills, with the ability to foster collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholdersSelf-awareness and humility, with the ability to balance first-principles thinking, pattern recognition from experience, and knowing when to ask for helpThe annual US

salary range

for this role is $130,000 - $165,000 plus equity.

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salary range

may be inclusive of several career levels at Lithic and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate’s experience and

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Benefits

: Health, vision, and dental insurance; HSA Contribution MatchUnlimited PTO401(k) match Voluntary Life Insurance and AD D 3% cashback on all Privacy purchases12-weeks fully paid parental leaveWork From Anywhere: work from anywhere in the world 4-weeks each year5-Year Fully Paid 4-Week Sabbatical ProgramWe believe in-person collaboration boosts creativity, communication, and agility, which are key to our growth. Employees in the NYC area are asked to work from our SoHo office three days a week - Tuesdays and Thursdays are core in-office days - the third is flexible.

In-office employees receive: Commuter benefitFree lunch every Tuesday and Thursday.