Director, Loss Mitigation Operations

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About the role

  • Director overseeing fraud, AML, disputes, collections, and recoveries for KOHO’s Canadian fintech products. Standardizing operations, managing partners, and automating loss mitigation.

Responsibilities

  • Report to the Head of Credit Product, Lending Strategy and Loss Mitigation
  • Oversee performance across transaction fraud and merchant disputes, identity and account access, first-line AML and screening operations, money movement and balance recovery, and collections and recoveries
  • Monitor queue volumes, service levels, quality and losses in real time
  • Build collections and recoveries operations end to end
  • Execute treatment strategy set by Credit Product and Lending Strategy
  • Evaluate and manage third-party collections and recovery partnerships
  • Establish processes for write-offs, bankruptcies and consumer proposals
  • Lead outsourced provider transition and offboarding
  • Develop statements of work, service levels, training and certification
  • Run vendor-management reporting, QA scorecards, calibration and corrective action
  • Define decision thresholds, approval limits, named approvers and agent procedures
  • Identify, deliver and validate automation to reduce manual work and costs
  • Define operational readiness for bank lending product launches, beginning with credit cards
  • Lead a lean internal team delivering through partners
  • Remove single points of failure
  • Respond to regulators and auditors with supporting evidence

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in financial services operations
  • 5+ years leading managers and large, multi-line teams in a regulated environment
  • Deep expertise in at least two of: card disputes and chargebacks, transaction fraud, identity, AML operations, or collections and recoveries
  • Working knowledge of card network rules and Canadian AML obligations
  • Experience standing up or transitioning an outsourced provider from scope and statement of work through service levels, pricing and training
  • Experience holding outsourced providers accountable for quality and cost per case
  • Ability to evaluate end-to-end case cost and recoveries
  • Ability to turn analysis into quantified proposals distinguishing known, estimated and assumed information
  • Ability to create rules, decision thresholds, approval limits and procedures
  • Ability to drive cross-functional work and lead in senior forums
  • Legally eligible to work in Canada

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation & equity
  • Generous vacation
  • Wellness days
  • Flex Days
  • Holiday closure
  • Remote-first environment
  • Coworking support
  • Yearly all hands retreat
  • Access to coaching & growth programs
  • Parental top-up & leave policies
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Power-up budgets for books, home office setup, phone & internet, AI tools, and professional development
  • Asynchronous collaboration
  • Flexible hours

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$180,000 - CA$210,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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