We are seeking an experienced Risk Manager based in Paris to establish our risk framework and processes for our new merchant collection product.

✨ Main tasks

Build & Scale

• Develop and enhance the risk framework for our merchant collection product across diverse industries, including Financial Management Saas, crowdfunding or e-commerce.

• Define underwriting policies for merchant onboarding, encompassing measures like rolling reserves or collateral.

• Establish merchant monitoring policies and methodologies, covering exposure calculation, fraud, and dispute levels.

• Define rules for transaction monitoring to identify suspicious transactions related to fraud or money laundering.

Run

• Review high-risk use cases during the sales cycle, defining appropriate mitigation measures.

• Onboard merchants and streamline operational processes for enhanced business scalability.

• Investigate suspicious activities (transactions, chargebacks), liaise with customers when required, and implement remediation measures, including account termination.

✨ Your Team

Join our dynamic and expanding Risk team, led by our experienced Lead Risk.

The Risk team operates within a department alongside the Compliance, Legal, and Internal Control teams. As a key member of this team, you will work closely with the compliance, operations and sales teams, ensuring the success of the product.

Our team, currently consisting of four members, is actively expanding, with ongoing recruitment for two additional team members.

✨ You’re a great match if:

• Significant experience in Merchant Risk (7+ years) in Fintech, Payment Provider, Bank, consulting firm, or similar fast-paced environments.

• Experience in building or scaling a similar product in a fast-paced environment.

• Familiarity with multiple payment methods (card, direct debit, APM).

• Understanding of the challenges of a Payfac model.

• Possess a “problem solver” mindset, demonstrating creativity and resourcefulness with a positive and can-do attitude.

• Effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.

• Strong analytical skills with an eye for detail.

• Fluency in English.

• Our ideal teammate: Empathetic. Skilled. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door.

It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes — don’t let imposter syndrome prevent you from applying! 🙌

Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

When it comes to recruitment, we’re interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan’s success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area.

About Swan

✨ Perks of being a Swanee:

• ESOP packages available 😊

• Hybrid remote policy: We offer the possibility of working from home for 2-3 days per week.

• The best health insurance: Alan 🦭

• Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib.

• We respect your lunch break. Mid-day free-time is sacred and our French office even provides a Swile card to cover your meal on work days. 🥪

• Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax.

• This isn’t a perk, it should be the rule, but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. We’re working hard to get better every day.

✨ Our values:

Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture.

Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something’s convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.

Long Term: We always play the long game, whether it’s to support our partners in their growth journey, or make tangible commitments to climate action.

Excellence: We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners’ expectations— whatever it takes.

Be Human: We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions, it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet.

You can find out more about our culture.

• A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions

• An interview with Guillaume, our Lead Risk

• A case study & a debrief

• An interview with our Chief Compliance Officer

• An interview with one of our founder