Top Risk Analyst Jobs in Boston, MA

Lead credit risk strategy for lending products by analyzing portfolio performance, identifying risk drivers, refining underwriting and pricing policies, and conducting A/B tests. Partner with Data Science to develop and monitor credit models, while building AI-enabled workflows that automate analysis and surface risk signals. Collaborate cross-functionally with Risk, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Data Science to support scalable fintech growth and compliant automated credit decisioning.

Supports second-line oversight of liquidity and interest rate risk, including Treasury practice reviews, challenge assessments, risk monitoring, stress-testing reviews, limit exception escalation, governance reporting, and regulatory compliance evaluation. The role analyzes risk data, maintains assessment documentation, partners with Treasury and stakeholders across the three lines of defense, and contributes to enterprise risk management strategy.

Monitor intraday and end-of-day market risk across hedge fund and securities financing portfolios. Assess collateral and margin adequacy, leverage, liquidity, concentration, and financing exposures. Perform stress testing, scenario analysis, and risk-limit monitoring; escalate breaches with recommendations. Partner with Trading, Prime Brokerage, and Securities Finance teams on client risk, onboarding, due diligence, margin methodologies, and enhancements to risk frameworks and models.

Supports operational risk management strategy, assessments, controls, KRIs, scenario analysis, risk reporting, incident reviews, remediation tracking, and control attestations. Partners with business units and assurance functions to identify, measure, mitigate, and monitor risks; presents findings and recommendations to senior leadership; facilitates risk training; maintains risk tools and procedures; and promotes operational excellence and risk awareness.

Leads technology-focused internal audits and risk advisory engagements involving ITGCs, automated controls, key reports, ERP systems, cloud solutions, and SOX compliance. Assesses control design and effectiveness, identifies risk exposures, develops remediation recommendations, oversees audit workstreams, coaches analysts, prepares audit documentation, and improves audit methodologies and testing approaches.

Executes technology-focused internal audit and risk advisory engagements, including SOX compliance testing, IT general and automated control testing, system implementation reviews, risk assessments, operational audits, and SOC report reviews. The role evaluates control design and effectiveness, documents audit findings, supports remediation, and advises stakeholders on technology risk across enterprise applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments.

Executes first-line risk and control monitoring and testing across Commercial Banking. Assesses control design and effectiveness, supports RCSAs and risk inventories, documents findings, tracks remediation, and identifies control weaknesses. Develops testing methodologies, metrics, process flows, and reporting while analyzing trends and emerging risks. Partners with business stakeholders, risk, compliance, and audit teams; supports regulatory examinations and ensures activities align with enterprise risk frameworks.

Own credit risk policy optimization, limit-setting, experimentation, forecasting, and portfolio monitoring. Design A/B tests, build performance reporting and dashboards, identify emerging risks, and partner with Machine Learning, Product, Engineering, and Operations to improve risk models and customer outcomes. Monitor deployed model performance and translate analytical findings into actionable policy and product changes.

Analyze Home Equity pricing, profitability, portfolio performance, market trends, and competitive intelligence. Develop financial models, scenario analyses, dashboards, reporting, and executive presentations to support pricing recommendations and strategic decisions. Partner with Product, Operations, Sales, Credit Risk, Marketing, Finance, and Strategy teams to implement and measure initiatives that improve profitability, competitiveness, portfolio performance, and customer outcomes.

Reviews and underwrites new merchant applications for KYC, AML, card-brand, processor, and regulatory compliance. Analyzes flagged transactions, merchant histories, and payment-processing statements to assess risk and recommend approvals or limits. Supports fraud detection and risk-management improvements, handles payment-related inquiries and escalations, and collaborates with internal teams and external partners.

Conduct quantitative research and maintain capital market assumption models across equities, fixed income, credit, and FX. Develop Python-based analytics tools and dashboards, migrate forecasting platforms, apply statistical and econometric methods, and support portfolio construction, asset allocation, investment risk management, client materials, and forecast review processes. Collaborate with strategists, portfolio managers, clients, and the Investment Risk team to provide actionable investment insights.

Analyze applicant and account data to support credit underwriting, fraud detection, portfolio monitoring, delinquency management, and collections strategies. Interpret business financial statements, banking data, and credit reports; build dashboards, behavioral segments, and performance cohorts; and evaluate credit product profitability, customer lifetime value, losses, and risk-adjusted returns. Communicate findings to influence risk management and product strategy.

Investigates complex, high-risk user business cases and makes evidence-based risk decisions in ambiguous situations. The role develops tailored mitigation strategies, collaborates with Risk, Legal, Compliance, Product, and partners, communicates findings to varied audiences, engages directly with users, identifies systemic trends, and improves processes, decision frameworks, documentation, playbooks, and tooling.

Monitor and configure trade risk across FX/CFD accounts, investigate abnormal trading and client abuse, review suspicious accounts, and oversee live positions, margin, leverage, and execution settings. Build Python and SQL monitoring tools, dashboards, and investigation reports. Manage liquidity-bridge relationships, contribute to risk policies and controls, and respond to management and support requests.

Performs credit risk monitoring, analysis, reporting, and data quality support for a bank portfolio. Uses Excel, Power BI, Python, R, and SQL to produce actionable insights, maintain reporting, investigate data inconsistencies, and support governance, audit, SOX, and regulatory requirements. Collaborates across credit risk, finance, lending, and analytics teams, assists with custom reporting and onboarding, and ensures compliance with banking policies and regulations.

Own diligence and underwriting for institutional counterparties, recommend internal credit ratings and risk-based limits, monitor portfolio exposures, analyze asset volatility/liquidity for limit-setting, negotiate industry documentation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex client or product issues.

Underwrite high-risk ecommerce merchants and ISVs for payment processing and acquiring approval. Evaluate financial statements, transaction flows, fraud, chargebacks, compliance, and operational stability; recommend reserves, limits, monitoring, and other risk controls. Prepare audit-ready assessments, manage merchant and banking partner relationships, support onboarding, and advise on payment performance and growth while balancing commercial objectives with responsible risk management.

Reviews fraud appeals, high-risk transactions, pending payments, user behavior, and chargeback or representment cases. Matches payment and identity documentation, evaluates fraud risk across business lines, handles customer escalations, follows and updates SOPs, meets SLA and accuracy targets, and reports fraud trends to strategy teams. The role also supports blacklist releases, whitelisting, transaction approvals, and enforcement of policies across a global user base.

Detect and prevent fraudulent financial activity by monitoring transactions, investigating incidents, recording fraud losses, conducting root-cause analysis, improving controls, tracking emerging threats, supporting fraud-management infrastructure, and providing fraud-awareness training and guidance to business units.

Analyze financial transactions to detect fraud, investigate incidents, record losses, identify root causes, improve controls, monitor emerging threats, maintain fraud intelligence networks, support fraud risk infrastructure, and provide awareness training and guidance to business and support teams.

Analyzes financial transactions to detect and prevent fraud, investigates incidents, records losses, performs root cause analysis, and recommends control improvements. The role monitors emerging fraud threats, maintains industry intelligence networks, supports fraud risk infrastructure, and provides training and guidance to business and support teams on fraud awareness and mitigation.

Analyze financial transactions to detect and prevent fraud, investigate incidents, document losses, identify root causes, improve controls, monitor emerging fraud trends, maintain industry intelligence networks, support fraud-risk infrastructure, and provide fraud-awareness training to business and support teams.

Reviews fraud appeals, high-risk transactions, pending reviews, chargebacks, and representment cases. Analyzes user behavior, payment details, proof documents, fraud trends, and business-line risk factors to determine appropriate actions. Handles escalations, blacklist releases, whitelisting, and customer responses according to SOPs. Ensures cases meet SLA and accuracy requirements while identifying emerging fraud patterns and supporting compliance across global users.

Leads credit risk, pricing, underwriting, portfolio optimization, and policy strategies for Home Equity products. Analyzes credit performance, profitability, forecasting, customer behavior, collateral, and market trends to support risk-adjusted growth and capital decisions. Partners with Product, Finance, Operations, Technology, Compliance, and Credit Policy teams to implement decision rules, business requirements, controls, and process improvements. Develops monitoring tools and executive reporting, supports governance and regulatory activities, and mentors junior analysts.

Reviews and investigates fraud alerts, monitoring reports, and cases across accounts, cards, transactions, devices, and relationships. Identifies fraud patterns, documents findings, takes card actions, escalates suspicious or urgent activity to BSA/AML Operations, and maintains regulatory, quality, production, and SLA standards. Handles fraud-related cardholder calls and records all activity in Actimize and tracking spreadsheets.