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Fraud Manager

Payhawk
Location
Vilnius
Posted
19 days ago
Department
Compliance
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Genuine fluency with AI in your day-to-day work
  • Real payments fraud expertise across card issuing fraud, account takeover, phishing and social engineering, authorised push payment fraud, enumeration and card number attacks, and abuse of wallet provisioning
  • Experience building or materially upgrading a fraud programme
  • Hands-on experience configuring and tuning a fraud or transaction monitoring platform
  • Data fluency to interrogate transaction data
  • Working knowledge of the EU and UK fraud regulatory pipeline
Nice to have
  • Experience in a Lithuanian or UK regulated entity
  • Experience as a named fraud prevention officer or equivalent
  • Card scheme rules knowledge, and chargeback and dispute experience
  • SQL and Python, and practical use of machine learning for anomaly detection
  • An information security or fraud-adjacent security background
What the job really is

As a Fraud Manager at Payhawk, you will lead the fraud prevention function across two licensed entities, developing frameworks, detection logic, and regulatory implementations. Your role involves collaboration with information security, engineering, and compliance teams to create effective fraud detection and intervention models. You will also be responsible for reporting to Boards and Risk Committees, ensuring adherence to evolving regulatory requirements.

Benefits
  • 30 days holiday paid leave
  • Competitive compensation package
  • Two-week exchange policy to another Payhawk office
  • Flexible working hours and opportunity to work from home
  • Regular team-wide events
  • Additional Medical care
Things to weigh
  • Role involves significant regulatory responsibilities across two entities
  • Requires strong collaboration across multiple departments without formal authority
  • No specific mention of team size or direct reports
  • High expectations for building and improving fraud detection systems
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