Transactional Fraud Strategy Lead

MERJE is seeking a talented Fraud Strategy Lead for our client, a leading Financial Services business. This senior role offers the chance to lead a team of Strategy SMEs, protecting the business and customers throughout their journey. The ideal candidate will have extensive fraud and financial crime experience, strong leadership skills, and a proactive mindset.

c.£75,000

Location: Manchester

About The Role

The Senior Fraud & Financial Crime Strategy Lead is responsible for leading a small team of highly skilled Strategy SMEs to ensure the business and our customers are protected from onboarding through to their entire customer journey. The successful candidate will have experience in managing a team and setting priorities in a fast-paced environment and ensuring delivery and that senior management have visibility of all relevant information.

Key Accountabilities:

Develop and execute the Fraud and financial crime strategy
Manage the end to end fraud and fin crime lifecycle from prevention and detection to investigation, reporting and recovery.
Implement and optimise fraud tools, analytics, transaction monitoring and machine learning models.
Lead and manage Fraud & Financial Crime Strategy activities
Liaise with key stakeholders such as Operations, Compliance, Tech & Data, MLRO to ensure internal and regulatory requirements are met whilst seeing projects through from initiation to completion
Collaborate with Product, Commercial and various other teams to ensure fraud & financial crime prevention measures are embedded in new and existing products and services
Build and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders and industry bodies, attend relevant events
Provide regular reporting on fraud & financial crime KPIs, trends, and challenges to senior management
Ensure appropriate MI is in place to facilitate right level of visibility of the area to the business
Work alongside Strategy team to implement new systems, tools and strategies andmaintain existing strategy in line with business risk appetite

About You

The client is seeking a dynamic and experienced leader who can drive their fraud prevention and detection efforts forward. You’ll be someone who thrives off solving complex problems with simple solutions. You get how to use data and automation to create scalable solutions that get things right for customers, and effectively manage fraud and financial crime risks and losses.

The successful candidate must have the right to work in the UK and meet the following criteria:

Required skills and Experience

Fraud expert status – 5+ years experience in fraud prevention and financial crime within fintech, payments, or banking, with a major in credit cards and consumer lending
Proven ability to lead high-performing teams across fraud strategy and operational functions
Strong working knowledge of fraud typologies (e.g. scam