Job Description
Full details about the role and requirements
Yukerja Summary
The Business Development Manager – Risk & Fraud role at Sporty Group is curated from Remote Jobs (category Marketing & Penjualan). This role is marked as remote — check timezone and location requirements on the official listing. Yukerja.com is not the employer — applications are handled on the official source site.
About the role
Sporty Group is looking for a Business Development Manager - Risk & Fraud to safeguard platform integrity while enabling seamless customer journeys at scale. This role sits at the intersection of regulatory analysis, fraud prevention, compliance readiness, and product-led risk design, supporting multiple markets across Africa and LATAM, often in greenfield environments.
You will play a critical role in new market launches, partner selection, and continuous optimization of onboarding and transaction flows, working closely with Product, Tech, Legal, and Operations teams.
What you'll be doing
- Monitor fraud trends, risk ratios, and operational leakage across markets, with regular reporting and insights
- Support new market launches, working closely with Legal, Admin, Product, and Ops teams to assess: regulatory frameworks and local legal
requirements; data privacy, AML, KYC, and compliance obligations; design and optimization of customer onboarding and transaction flows
- Run monthly competitor analysis on fraud tools, KYC processes, and risk controls, ensuring best-in-class balance between security and user experience
- Partner with Product and Tech teams to continuously improve onboarding, withdrawal, and transaction flows
- Evaluate, onboard, and manage KYC, AML, fraud, and compliance partners
- Lead partner negotiations and support cost optimization initiatives
- Support PCI DSS compliance, security audits, and broader regulatory readiness programs
- Ensure end-to-end risk and fraud readiness for new market rollouts
- Build dashboards and reporting frameworks to provide leadership with clear risk visibility and decision support
What you'll bring
- 6+ years of experience in risk, fraud, compliance, or payments security
- Strong working knowledge of KYC, AML, transaction monitoring, and risk controls
- Proven experience collaborating with product and engineering teams in fast-moving environments
- Highly analytical with strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
- Experience working in emerging markets strongly preferred
- Comfortable operating in greenfield, low-structure environments and managing multiple streams in parallel
- Highly adaptable and resilient, with the ability to navigate evolving regulatory and market
requirements
- Strong stakeholder management skills across Product, Operations, Technology, Legal, and external partners
- Fluency in both written and spoken English is essential
What's in it for you
- Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
- A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
- Top of the line equipment
- Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.
Apply directly on RemoteJobs.org: https://remotejobs.org/remote-jobs/business-development-manager-risk-fraud-sporty-group