Senior Strategy Lead

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Senior Fraud & Fincrime Strategy Lead

Why join us?
This is a chance to make a real impact in a growing business on a mission to change the face of the
consumer finance industry forever.
We have a collaborative team structure fuelled by an exciting mix of people welcoming both
experienced people from the industry with both feet on the ground and tech-savvy dreamers who
pave way for the new stuff. Come as you are and be yourself!

Description of the Business Unit
Jaja is a growing FinTech requiring an experienced hands-on Senior Fraud & Financial Crime
Strategy Lead to join their growing team of Fraud and Financial Crime Specialists.

Purpose of 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 that senior
management have visibility of all relevant information.

What's the opportunity?
You will work in a dynamic fast paced environment for a business that is shaking up the Consumer
Finance industry. Working with a passionate set of colleagues who excel at delivery you will have a
varied and interesting portfolio of activity that is not constrained by the status quo.

Key Accountabilities:
• Lead and manage the Fraud & Financial Crime Strategy Team
• Liaise with key stakeholders such as Operations, Compliance, Tech & Data 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 and
maintain existing strategy in line with business risk appetite
Essential skills and Experience
• 5+ year experience working in fraud & financial crime on both onboarding and existing
customer side
• Experience implementing and maintaining strategies and systems (Cifas, 3DS, Behavioural
Biometrics, dedicated risk engines etc.)
• Strong leadership and team management skills
• Strong working knowledge of SQL
• Analytical mindset, experienced in translating complex and technical topics for a nontechnical audience
• A good understanding of KYC & AML regulatory requirements
• Strong communication, time management and prioritisation skills
• Excellent at working with rapidly shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Expert in fraud & financial crime typologies
• Proactive, innovative, and customer focused mindset

Desirable skills and experience
• AML or fraud certification (ICA, ACAMS, CFE)
• Experience using graph databases or link analysis tools (Neo4j, TigerGraph, AWS Neptune)
• Experience using Tableau
What's in it for you?
• The chance to make a real impact in a growing start-up on a mission to change the face of
the consumer finance industry forever.
• Competitive salary
• Remote Hybrid working model
• Bonus scheme
• Annual Salary Review
• 4x life insurance cover
• Optional private health care
• Employee assistance program
• Annual staff get together
• 25 day holiday allowance plus UK bank holiday
• Pension Contributions
Fair Processing Notification
The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to
prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper
conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your
personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your
information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found
by [https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn].