Payments & Fraud Lead

Jobgether SRL; Brasil; On-site; BRL 350,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

25 days paid time off

Equipment allowance

Exposure to crypto payments and fraud

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Payments & Fraud Lead based in Brazil for a fully remote leadership role. You will oversee end-to-end withdrawal processes, monitor liquidity and fraud patterns, and lead a payments team across a fast-paced international environment.

You will collaborate with various departments to strengthen controls, improve workflows, and enhance customer experience while maintaining regulatory compliance and risk controls.

Qualifications

• Experience in payments operations, fraud, risk, or transaction monitoring.
• Strong understanding of withdrawal processes, liquidity, and transaction flows.
• Proven ability to identify, investigate, and prevent fraud and abuse.
• Experience managing a team or leading people-focused initiatives.
• Analytical decision-making under time pressure and data-driven mindset.
• Familiarity with crypto payments and on-chain monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end withdrawal process, ensuring timely processing and accuracy.
• Monitor platform balances to maintain liquidity and flag payout shortfalls.
• Track volumes, performance, and turnaround times; act on issues.
• Identify and resolve payment-related issues through escalation when needed.
• Improve payment workflows for faster, more reliable withdrawals.
• Monitor transactions for fraud, bonus abuse, multi-accounting, and collusion.
• Investigate suspicious accounts and decide on holds and escalations.
• Identify vulnerabilities in promotions and payment processes; strengthen controls.
• Monitor emerging fraud patterns in crypto and online gaming; adapt controls.
• Balance effective fraud prevention with smooth customer experience.
• Lead, organize, and develop the payments team; set priorities and standards.
• Provide coaching and feedback to team members; monitor performance.

Skills

Payments operations

Fraud detection

Risk management

Transaction monitoring

Team leadership

Analytical skills

Tools

Fraud detection tools

AML/KYC knowledge

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Payments & Fraud Lead based in Brazil.

This is a fully remote leadership role combining payments operations, fraud prevention, and team management in a fast-paced international environment. You will oversee the end-to-end withdrawal process, ensuring transactions are processed securely, accurately, and within agreed timelines. You will play a key role in protecting both the business and its customers by identifying fraud, abuse, and suspicious transaction patterns. The position offers significant ownership, with the opportunity to improve payment workflows, strengthen risk controls, and enhance the overall customer experience. You will lead a team of payment specialists while working closely with customer-facing, product, business, and operational teams. Your insights will help shape payment strategy, fraud controls, and operational performance.

Accountabilities:

• Own the end-to-end withdrawal process, ensuring requests are reviewed, approved, and processed accurately and within agreed service levels.
• Monitor payment platform and processor balances to maintain sufficient liquidity and proactively identify potential payout shortfalls.
• Track transaction volumes, processing performance, and turnaround times, taking action when volumes increase or operational issues emerge.
• Identify, escalation, and follow through on payment-related issues until they are fully resolved.
• Improve payment workflows and processes to make withdrawals faster, more efficient, and more reliable.
• Monitor player activity and transactions to identify fraud, bonus abuse, multi-accounting, collusion, and other suspicious behavior.
• Investigate suspicious accounts and transactions and make informed decisions regarding holds, reviews, and escalations.
• Identify vulnerabilities in promotions, payment processes, and account rules and work with relevant teams to strengthen controls.
• Monitor emerging fraud patterns and abuse techniques across crypto payments and online gaming environments and adapt controls accordingly.
• Balance effective fraud prevention with a smooth, efficient customer experience.
• Lead, organize, and develop the payments team, including setting priorities, managing schedules, and establishing quality standards.
• Coach team members on approvals, investigations, holds, and escalations to promote consistent and well-informed decisions.
• Monitor individual and team performance, providing regular feedback, coaching, and support.
• Own team performance against key metrics such as payout speed, accuracy, operational quality, and fraud detection.
• Partner with VIP, Customer Support, Product, Business, and Portfolio Management teams to resolve payment and fraud-related issues.
• Share payment trends, fraud insights, operational risks, and performance metrics with leadership and relevant stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Previous experience in payments operations, fraud, risk, transaction monitoring, or a related field, ideally within iGaming, crypto, fintech, or another high-volume transactional environment.
• Strong understanding of withdrawal processes, payment processing, liquidity management, and transaction flows.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, investigate, and prevent fraud, abuse, and suspicious activity.
• Previous experience managing a team or demonstrated readiness to take on people-leadership responsibilities.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills, with the ability to make sound judgments under time pressure.
• Comfortable working with transaction data and investigating unusual or potentially fraudulent activity.
• Familiarity with crypto payments and on-chain transaction monitoring.
• Working knowledge of AML and KYC processes and their application within payments and risk operations.
• Experience using fraud detection, transaction monitoring, or risk management tools.
• Strong understanding of fraud and payment data analysis, with the ability to identify patterns and translate findings into actionable controls.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to coordinate effectively across multiple teams.
• Proactive, hands-on approach with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, international, and highly autonomous environment.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize competing operational and risk-related demands.

Benefits:

• Fully remote work with the flexibility to work from an eligible location.
• 25 days of paid time off.
• Equipment allowance to support an effective remote working setup.
• International and fast-paced working environment with significant autonomy and ownership.
• Opportunity to directly influence payment operations, fraud prevention, and the overall customer experience.
• Exposure to payments, cryptocurrency, fraud prevention, risk management, and online gaming operations.
• Opportunity to lead and develop a specialized payments team.
• High-impact role with the ability to introduce operational improvements and strengthen fraud and payment controls.