Payment Risk & Anti-Fraud Specialist
Why this role exists:
This role exists to protect our financial flows and optimize payment health in real time. You’ll help us minimize fraud exposure and operational friction by owning end-to-end payment processing analysis, deposit/withdrawal risk decisions, and transaction monitoring.
What you’ll drive:
Risk Analysis & Transactional Decision-Making
Analyze full transactional flows across deposits, withdrawals, and payment histories to spot anomalies, suspicious behavior, and operational errors.
Review high-value and high-risk transactions in real time, making firm, evidence-based approve/decline decisions to control financial exposure.
Identify payment fraud indicators, potential chargeback risks, payment method abuse, and mismatches between deposit sources and withdrawal destinations.
Operational Execution & Case Management
Investigate complex payment cases involving failed, pending, unusual, or declined transactions across various payment methods.
Manage multiple urgent cases simultaneously, using risk severity and potential financial impact to set priorities.
Maintain clear, structured, and audit-ready documentation for all reviewed cases, decisions, and risk actions.
System Optimization & Feedback
Distinguish root causes quickly among genuine payment fraud, platform configuration gaps, gateway technical failures, or provider-side issues.
Identify operational friction, missing rules, or system logic gaps and submit structured feedback to improve risk tool setups.
Respond immediately to operational spikes and risk incidents without sacrificing accuracy or thoroughness.
Stakeholder & Cross-Team Collaboration
Communicate transactional findings, decisions, and necessary interventions clearly to Finance, Support, Tech, and Fraud teams.
Follow cases through to full resolution, taking clear ownership and escalating complex scenarios promptly when higher authorization is required.
What makes you a GR8 fit:
Must-have:
1+ years of hands-on experience in payment operations, transaction monitoring, billing, fraud prevention, or risk operations (FinTech/iGaming/E-commerce).
Practical knowledge of transactional risk analysis, deposit/withdrawal flows, transaction statuses, and chargeback exposure.
Proven experience working with alert-based risk consoles, analytical tools, or payment back-office systems in high-volume environments.
Strong ability to multitask and prioritize urgent, high-value alerts based on financial impact.
Decisive judgment with the confidence to execute fast, high-stakes decisions under pressure.
Clear cross-team communication skills to explain complex risk rationale concisely.
Upper-Intermediate English level for clear, structured cross-team communication and audit documentation.
Readiness to work in a rotating shift schedule, including night shifts.
Nice-to-have:
Experience working with alternative payment methods (APMs) and crypto payment rails across different regions.
Understanding of basic SQL or advanced Excel/data tools for quick pattern searching.
Prior experience dealing with payment service providers (PSPs) and acquiring banks directly.