Senior Risk Analyst

This is the job

We are excited to announce an opening for a Senior Risk Analyst. This role focuses on identifying and mitigating risks while ensuring regulatory compliance. The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills and proven experience implementing risk management frameworks in line with Central Bank of Brazil regulations, as well as hands-on experience interacting with the Central Bank of Brazil. If you have a proactive mindset and a solid background in regulated environments, we encourage you to apply.

This is what you will do

• Implement and maintain the enterprise risk management framework aligned with the institution’s business model and risk profile.
• Continuously identify, assess, and monitor key risks, with focus on operational and liquidity risk.
• Define and maintain risk management policies, methodologies, and governance frameworks.
• Perform risk assessments for material changes, including new products, processes, systems, and partnerships.
• Produce risk reports for senior management covering key exposures, incidents, exceptions, and action plans.
• Monitor capital adequacy and support risk-related capital analyses, where applicable.
• Drive risk mitigation and remediation plans, ensuring clear ownership, timelines, and effectiveness validation.
• Support business continuity and payment services continuity planning and testing.
• Coordinate third-party and outsourcing risk management.
• Work closely with Technology, Information Security, and Internal Controls on data security, fraud, and operational risk controls.
• Support audits and regulatory requests, ensuring timely and accurate documentation.
• Report progress, key indicators and deliverables to the Zimpler Brazil Risk Director.

Qualification & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or similar.
• Solid experience in risk management within a regulated environment, ideally a Payment Institution.
• Strong knowledge of operational and liquidity risk in line with BCB requirements.
• Hands-on experience with risk frameworks, KRIs/KPIs, risk appetite, and control effectiveness testing.
• Experience developing formal risk policies, procedures, and governance documentation.
• Experience with third-party risk and outsourcing governance.
• Knowledge of business and payment services continuity planning.
• Proven ability to prepare executive-level risk reports with full traceability.
• Experience working with audits and regulatory authorities, including the Central Bank of Brazil.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Native level of Portuguese and fluent in English.