Fraud Prevention Lead at Moniepoint Inc. (Formerly TeamApt Inc.) Full Time

Job Title: Fraud Prevention Lead

Location: Lagos
Employment type: Full-time

About the Role

• The Lead, Fraud Prevention will lead a team of fraud analysts to proactively analyze opportunities that may lead to fraud on all electronic products across the enterprise.
• The successful candidate will analyze fraud trends, make recommendations for fraud prevention, and act to mitigate losses.
• The fraud prevention team will work collaboratively with the fraud detection team and clients to design and implement fraud detection solutions to meet stakeholder needs.

Responsibilities
As a Fraud Prevention Lead, you would:

• Design and implement customer onboarding systems, verification systems, and fraud detection systems controls.
• Monitor the onboarding, verification, and fraud detection system controls to identify gaps or failures.
• Ensure that customer onboarding and verification systems are updated to accommodate changes in customer requirements and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure that security of onboarding, verification and fraud detection systems are maintained at optimal levels at all times.
• Ensure customer verification and re-verification is done at prescribed intervals.
• Ensure that the controls in onboarding channels are adequately synced for similar outcomes.
• Work with the information security team and IT control to ensure access to customer databases and information is restricted to mitigate phishing attacks.
• Ensure that internal fraud watchlists are updated and referenced during every customer onboarding.
• Liaise with NIBSS to ensure the industry BVN watchlist is referenced during every customer onboarding, and regularly get the updated BVN watchlist.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (such as Computer Science, IT, Information Security, Business, Economics, or Law).
• An advanced degree and relevant certifications (CISSP, CRISC, CAMS, CFE, Prince2, PMP) is preferred.

Experience:

• 8-10 years experience in IT risk, product security, project management, information and systems security, regulatory compliance in the Banking, Finance, or FinTech industries. A combination of any two or more experience(s) is a strong advantage. Experience in managing similar teams is an added advantage.

Competencies:

• Strong understanding of product security and controls, information security, E-business regulations, project management.
• Knowledge of risk management principles and practices.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Attention to details and good appreciation of system audits
• Knowledge of banking or FinTech industry regulations or standards may be necessary.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

What to expect in the hiring process:

• A preliminary phone call with the recruiter
• A technical panel interview with Department Leads
• A behavioral and technical interview with a member of the Executive team
• All interviews stages are Virtual.