About The Company
Hercle is a fast-growing fintech building institutional-grade infrastructure that bridges fiat, stablecoins, and digital assets, enabling cross-border transactions at scale and in real time.
Serving over 200 clients globally, Hercle provides banks, brokers, payment service providers, and fintechs with seamless solutions for cross-border payments, trading, and treasury management.
About The Role
In this role, you will serve as a Business Risk Analyst within the first line of defence (1LoD), supporting the day-to-day risk operations of Hercle. The primary objective is to assist the Head of Operations in managing the 1LoD non-financial risk framework across two core domains: (A) payment fraud monitoring and (B) market abuse & trade surveillance.
The Analyst has operational ownership of the front-line alert queues, conducting L1 investigations, managing case lifecycles, and escalating confirmed or material findings through established governance channels to the Risk Management and Compliance function.
The role demands the ability to exercise sound,
evidence-based judgment under time pressure across multi-currency fiat flows, stablecoin movements, and trading activity on regulated venues.
Key Responsibilites
Payment Fraud Monitoring (escalation line: CRO)
- Operate the daily fraud monitoring workflow on the firm’s payment monitoring platform (Flagright or equivalent), covering inbound and outbound fiat flows and digital asset transfers across Hercle’s accounts.
- Triage real-time fraud alerts: classify, investigate, and document each case in the case management system in accordance with internal policies.
- Execute L1 controls on payment exceptions, including APP fraud red flags, unauthorised transactions, mule-account patterns, account-takeover indicators, social-engineering typologies, and merchant/PSP-side anomalies.
- Coordinate with the AML team on overlapping financial crime red flags — suspicious activity, structuring, and sanctions — maintainin
📌 Business Risk Analyst (Italia)
🏢 Hercle
📍 Italia