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Our client is committed to building a financial system that works for all this includes consumers merchants banks regulators and law enforcement. Fraud and identity are unfortunately still significant challenges for everyone involved in payments and commerce. Our client is committed to combatting this and is building both tools and capabilities to improve its abilities in this space. The Law Enforcement Community (LEC) does a great deal to support the victims of crime and seek out the perpetrators so our client is looking to build a strong connection with LEC.

The Head of Fraud will lead our clients fraud prevention and detection framework across all South African products. This senior role will work with Exco to define our clients fraud risk appetite and policy and will have full accountability for execution building Risk Operations (Risk ops) leading investigations managing bank escalations and chargebacks and ensuring partner bank fraud thresholds are met.

The Head of Fraud will work closely with the Shield Team Legal Compliance and Partnerships teams and act as the companys operational point of contact on fraud for regulators partner banks and industry stakeholders.

Job Type : Full Time / Permanent

Work Place : Remote

• 10 years in fraud risk financial crime or investigations with at least 3 years in leadership.
• Strong experience managing fraud escalations chargebacks and partner bank fraud thresholds in a payments or fintech context.
• Deep understanding of South African payment fraud typologies fraud prevention tooling etc
• Proven track record of operational execution against risk policy defined at executive level.
• Strong relationship management skills with partner banks regulators and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work closely with technical teams like the Shield Team to deliver outcomes.
• Execution-focused leader who can translate policy into operational success.
• Excellent communicator across technical operational executive and partner bank audiences.
• High integrity and judgment in high-pressure situations.
• Strong collaborator particularly with Partnerships to maintain bank confidence.
• Comfortable with selective public engagement representing our client with credibility.

• Define our clients fraud strategy and risk appetite policy and key fraud control principles.
• Translate agreed policy into operational execution plans and incident management processes.
• Monitor fraud performance metrics against strategy reporting results to Exco Risk Operations (Risk Ops)
• Build and lead the Risk Ops team deliver on our clients Fraud Strategy to handle the defined operations.
• Manage fraud escalations from partner banks ensuring timely resolution and feedback loops.
• Oversee chargeback management processes ensuring disputes are resolved efficiently and in line with scheme and partner bank requirements.
• Maintain processes and controls to meet or stay below partner bank fraud thresholds (for TPPP agreements).
• Implement playbooks for fraud incident response including merchant interventions suspension or termination.

• Partner with the Shield Team to enhance fraud detection and prevention tooling.
• Work closely with the Partnerships team to maintain strong partner bank relationships ensuring fraud performance metrics are aligned with contractual obligations.
• Coordinate with the Law Enforcement Liaison Officer (LELO) for effective case escalation to SAPS Hawks and other authorities.
• Collaborate with Legal Compliance and Product to embed fraud controls into product design and merchant lifecycle management.

• Oversee fraud-related regulatory reporting including STRs to the FIC.
• Ensure fraud controls are compliant with PASA and SARB directives as well as card scheme and partner bank requirements.
• Represent fraud operations in audits regulatory reviews and industry-level risk committees.

• Act as our clients credible external voice on fraud engaging with regulators partner banks and industry forums when needed.

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Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1