Senior Risk Data Analyst – LatAm

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Execute, implement, and uphold preventive, detective, and monitoring controls within essential business and operational processes.

• Utilize SQL to extract data from production and analytical sources for control testing, audit evidence collection, and exception investigation across extensive datasets.

• Develop and sustain Python scripts and automated routines to consistently test controls, highlight exceptions, and produce reproducible outcomes.

• Create and design control-monitoring dashboards and KPI reports using platforms such as Tableau.

• Convert control designs and process specifications into tangible, automated checks and validation logic.

• Establish test cases, execute them against actual data, assess exceptions, and document the findings.

• Evaluate workflows and data to pinpoint control deficiencies, failure points, manual dependencies, and heightened operational risks.

• Collaborate with Risk, Product, Operations, Finance, Compliance, Technology, and Data teams to integrate automated controls into workflows and everyday operations.

• Preserve documentation of control logic, test procedures, data sources, and outcomes for both internal and external assessment.

• Monitor control exceptions and issues through remediation, followed by re-testing to ensure resolution.

• Apply risk and control principles, including COSO-based methodologies, to create significant and auditable controls.

• Demonstrate high ownership within an environment that fosters process discipline and tooling development.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3–6 years of experience in a technical, data-focused position such as risk/data analytics, controls testing, internal audit analytics, or data analysis.

• Proficient hands-on SQL capabilities, including the ability to independently craft and optimize queries for large datasets.

• Working knowledge of Python for automating control tests, developing validation scripts, and data analysis, including the use of pandas.

• Experience in creating dashboards and reports using BI tools like Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.

• Capability to translate process or control requirements into automated, testable logic.

• Familiarity with internal control concepts and frameworks like COSO, alongside knowledge of testing design and operational effectiveness, is desirable.

• Strong analytical skills to detect data anomalies, assess risk, and discern meaningful signals from background noise.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and limited structure, transforming them into repeatable, documented processes.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, enabling clear explanations of technical findings to non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience in fintech, lending, payments, or other regulated financial services sectors is highly preferred.

• Knowledge of data pipelines, version control systems such as Git, or workflow automation is an advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• An opportunity to become part of a high-impact, mission-driven fintech with regional influence.

• Responsibility for the tooling and automation of R2’s control environment within a dynamic, growth-focused startup.

• Collaborative efforts with outstanding teams across Latin America.

• Engagement with complex regulatory challenges and innovation in embedded finance.

• Eligible team members can participate in R2’s Phantom Share Program, a performance-based incentive that aligns with the company’s long-term success and value creation.