Risk Supervisor leading fraud, ACH, chargeback, and compliance monitoring for Constellation Payments’ Canadian payment processing operations. Supervising analysts, escalations, controls, reporting, and risk improvements.
Responsibilities
Lead and oversee the daily activities of the Risk team, ensuring risk queues, investigations, alerts, reviews, and escalations are completed accurately and within established service levels
Supervise merchant risk monitoring for fraud, compliance, reputational, operational, ACH, chargeback, and transaction-related risks
Review and approve escalated investigations involving held transactions, large ticket activity, excessive refunds, duplicate transactions, excessive authorizations, excessive declines, ACH returns, suspicious merchant behavior, and emerging risk trends
Manage team workload, priorities, queue assignments, and resource allocation
Conduct quality assurance reviews of risk cases, documentation, merchant outreach, escalations, workflows, and monitoring activities
Provide coaching, mentoring, training, and performance feedback to Risk Analysts
Oversee bank account change controls, including validations, approvals, quality reviews, system updates, and post-change monitoring
Ensure ongoing merchant monitoring programs are implemented and performed on a regular cadence
Support enhanced due diligence for high-risk industries, MCCs, NEC classifications, firearms and ammunition merchants, non-profits, and other restricted categories
Oversee chargeback, ACH, and NACHA monitoring programs, including threshold monitoring, return rate reviews, recurring payment analysis, remediation, and risk trend management
Review and approve risk assessments, recommendations, merchant restrictions, monitoring plans, escalation decisions, and account actions
Ensure periodic KYC/KYB refreshes, merchant portfolio reviews, and documentation validation are completed accurately and on schedule
Prepare and deliver recurring risk reporting, KPI dashboards, operational updates, portfolio analysis, escalation summaries, and trend reporting for leadership
Identify emerging risks, operational gaps, control weaknesses, and process improvement opportunities; implement corrective actions and monitor effectiveness
Partner with Underwriting, Compliance, Product, Finance, Onboarding, Merchant Support, and external partners to resolve complex issues and improve workflows
Support audits, compliance reviews, sponsor bank requests, processor inquiries, and operational examinations
Assist with policy development, procedure documentation, workflow enhancements, risk framework expansion, and strategic operational initiatives
Adapt risk controls, processes, priorities, and team responsibilities as business needs evolve
Take ownership of leadership initiatives, special projects, and additional responsibilities assigned by management
Requirements
5+ years of experience in risk operations, payments, fraud prevention, underwriting, compliance operations, banking operations, or related fields
1–3 years of leadership, team lead, supervisory, or management experience
Required to travel up to 15% annually for company meetings, leadership events, partner engagements, training, conferences, and other business-related activities
Strong understanding of payment processing, merchant acquiring, transaction monitoring, chargebacks, ACH processing, NACHA rules, fraud prevention, and operational risk management
Demonstrated ability to lead teams, prioritize workloads, manage escalations, and drive operational performance
Strong analytical and decision-making skills with the ability to assess complex risk scenarios and provide clear recommendations
Experience building procedures, monitoring programs, controls, scorecards, dashboards, and operational reporting
Excellent communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills
Experience managing multiple projects, investigations, escalations, and competing priorities simultaneously
Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain high-quality standards across team output
Ability to work cross-functionally with Risk, Compliance, Underwriting, Operations, Product, Finance, and external partners
Working knowledge of ACH processing, NACHA Operating Rules, ACH return thresholds, and payments risk management best practices
Preferred: experience in merchant acquiring, PayFac operations, fintech, payment risk, card-not-present environments, or payment gateway operations
Preferred: experience leading risk monitoring, fraud prevention, underwriting, compliance, or operational support teams
Preferred: familiarity with Payrix, Salesforce, Zift, Vantiv IQ, LegitScript, GIACT, Inscribe, or similar risk and verification platforms
Preferred: experience developing KPIs, SLAs, quality assurance programs, operational reporting, and team performance metrics
Preferred: experience supporting audits, sponsor bank reviews, regulatory examinations, and compliance initiatives
Preferred: knowledge of MCC governance, high-risk verticals, prohibited merchant categories, and enhanced due diligence requirements
Preferred: experience designing and implementing risk controls, monitoring frameworks, escalation procedures, and operational workflows
Preferred: experience working with ACH risk monitoring programs, NACHA compliance requirements, return rate management, and payment network rules
Preferred: experience with risky business verticals and building monitoring around them
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