Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that frees progressive businesses to accomplish more.

Over 25,000 organisations across 31 countries use Soldo to end slow, messy, and inefficient spending, bringing financial agility and control over every expense. Soldo frees finance with a uniquely proactive approach to managing decentralised spending.

By combining a powerful spend management platform, a user-friendly app, and versatile payment methods, Soldo automates expense admin to eliminate inefficiency in managing business spending.

By proactively managing decentralised spend, organisations empower employees to spend when and where it's needed, keeping productivity high while avoiding month-end surprises.

Founded in 2015 by Italian digital innovator Carlo Gualandri, Soldo is headquartered in London, with offices in Dublin, Milan, and Rome.

We’re looking for people with big ambitions, cool heads, sharp minds, and warm hearts. Come and join us as we grow together.

What's in it for you

Competitive salary

Private healthcare coverage for you and your family

Lunch Vouchers

Genuine career development opportunities (we love to see you succeed) - including your own annual €500 career development budget

Access to training and development - including a mentoring programme, workshops and the opportunity to progress onto our leadership programme

Flexible working options, including working from home or our Milan or Rome offices + 60 days’ work anywhere

Statutory Leave entitlements plus extra days off on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and your Birthday

Your own personal company Soldo card

Employee Assistance Programme

CAF Annual Fiscal & Financial Support

The role
We are looking for a Financial Services Tech Risk Specialist to join our Financial Services Technology team within a fast-growing Fintech environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, implementing, and monitoring transaction risk and AML controls across multiple payment products (card payments and bank transfers).





This role requires strong hands‑on experience with AML and transaction monitoring systems (preferably Featurespace) and the ability to support our Risk & Compliance team in identifying risk scenarios and defining, maintaining, and optimising risk rules to prevent fraud, money laundering, and financial crime while minimising false positives.

Key Responsibilities

Design, configure, and maintain transaction monitoring and AML rules for Card Payments and Domestic and International Bank transfers (SEPA, SWIFT, Instant payments, Faster Payments, BACS, etc.) - including actively coding rules logic on the Featurespace platform, testing and deploying changes, ensuring adherence to appropriate change management procedures and a full audit trail

Participate in regular meetings with the Risk & Compliance team to define priorities, refine backlog and review implemented tasks.

Monitor daily/weekly alerts generated by transaction monitoring systems and support escalation, investigation, reporting and analysis of rule effectiveness and false positive rates

Support Risk & Compliance and Security teams in performing risk analysis on customer transactions, behaviours, and payment flows to identify fraud patterns, AML, and financial crime risks

Support regulatory and audit activities by providing documentation, data analysis, and explanations of risk rules, controls, incidents and remediation actions

Stay up to date with regulatory requirements (AML, CTF, sanctions) and emerging fraud trends in the Fintech and payments space

Deal with the external provider for BAU operations aspects and for the resolution of any low‑severity issues





Collaborate with FS Tech and Product Tech teams to enhance the Soldo transaction monitoring solution and identify and resolve any issues with the internal processing of events feeding into or originating from the Soldo transaction monitoring solution

Participate in the testing and rollout of new payment products or changes to existing flows from a risk perspective

We are looking for someone who must have

Experience in financial services risk, AML, fraud, or transaction monitoring, preferably in a Fintech, bank, or equivalent payment institution

Strong hands‑on experience with AML and transaction monitoring tools, such as:

Featurespace (preferred)

Actimise

Feedzai

FICO

Stripe Radar

Lexis Nexis

SMASH

or similar platforms

Solid understanding of

Proven experience in writing, modifying, and maintaining risk rules and scenarios

AML/CTF frameworks

Transaction monitoring methodologies

Fraud typologies related to cards and bank transfers

Experience working with different payment types

Card payments (credit, debit, prepaid)

Bank transfers (SEPA, international wires, instant payments, Faster Payments, Bacs)

It would be nice if you had

Experience working in a regulated Fintech or EMI

Knowledge of sanctions screening and PEP monitoring

Experience with SQL, data analysis tools, or dashboards (e.g. Tableau, Power BI)

Familiarity with machine learning–based monitoring tools

Experience supporting internal or external audits and regulatory inspections

Experience working in an Agile environment according to Scrum/Kanban methodology

Knowledge of Jira and Confluence

Personal Attributes

Detail‑oriented with a strong sense of ownership

Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, evolving environment

Strong problem‑solving and decision‑making skills

Able to communicate risk concepts and logic behind the rules clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders

Collaborative mindset and proactive approach to risk management.

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📌 Financial Services Tech Risk Specialist (Roma)
🏢 Banche e finanza
📍 Roma