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We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way.
Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The role: SoFi’s Fraud Prevention Center of Excellence team is responsible for ensuring responsible growth in lending, banking, investing, and other member-related activities consistent with the company’s risk appetite. The team holistically manages enterprise, credit, deposit products, fraud prevention, portfolio management, infrastructure, and business operating risks. In addition, Fraud Prevention CoE directly manages enterprise partners, ensures strong compliance with regulations, acts as a multi-layered second line of defense in oversight of business operations, and works to ensure risk policies enable a member-first experience. The Director of Investigation will have the responsibility managing teams of fraud investigators located domestically and at Global Delivery Center. The role will be tasked to implement and iterate on Fraud Investigation standards, standardize SOPs, identify and incorporate automation tools to enhance Investigators efficacy and efficiency, and drive accountability. The role will drive execution plans across different products to ensure consistent Member experience while meeting Investigation standards. You will partner with Fraud Prevention Policy, Operations Analytics, Fraud Platform, AML, Legal and Compliance teams to drive operations excellence in the first line of defense in the fraud prevention domain. The Director of Investigation reports directly to the Senior Director of Global Fraud Operations.
- Drive process change management, leveraging data to drive insights and improvement by partnering with Operations analytics.
- Lead and coach investigators on productivity while driving accountability and efficacy.
- Develop and implement SOPs for new processes.
- Identify opportunities to reduce fraud risk while delivering a better Member experience.
- Partner with workforce management to balance cost and capacity to meet established SLAs.
- Identify opportunities for financial recovery through other financial institutions or law enforcement.
- Develop and implement training across investigations to ensure the delivery of consistent high-quality products.
- Partnering with Quality Assurance teams to independently validate high-quality delivery.
- Provide feedback to the policy team on emerging fraud patterns, and validate identified exposure points either through message board or escalation.
- Support Legal and complaints on referral cases.
What you’ll do: - Teamwork is Job 1… daily critical collaboration is necessary with Investigators, BSA, Fraud Prevention Policy, Operations Control, and Engineering Product Design. This is the conduit to execution of our Fraud Investigation Strategies and a critical feedback loop balances risk with member experience.
- Members are our Passion… ensure our SoFi members are protected from fraud at every touchpoint while enabling minimal friction throughout their journey. Opening our doors the widest implores creative solutions to managing the inherent risk but also allows serving as many members as possible.
- Innovate… we need you to bring your brightest ideas to build best-in-class investigation processes across SoFi’s wide suite of products.
- Data Driven… Collaborate with Workforce management, Operations Analytics, and Risk Infrastructure to help architect the future of fraud investigation with analytically based assessment and deployment capabilities.
- Challenge Status Quo… constantly evaluate the adequacy of operational procedure and put in place a process to optimize cost, member experience, and team morale; re-evaluate technological infrastructure to continuously optimize the member experience.
- Drive Performance Outcomes… Design effective controls that ensure operational risks are proactively identified and escalated, actively managed, clearly quantified and measured to drive accountability.
- Risk Controllership… Independently review and challenge material estimates and/or the processes that provide estimates used in managing the process and capacity.
- Be a Fraud Prevention Investigation SME… Serve as a subject matter expert for Fraud Prevention Investigation – including process, processes, controls, and KPIs. Optimal team performance and ensure Member Security is maintained across fraud attempts/attacks and ensure remediation playbooks are developed and executable to protect SoFi from reputational, operational, or financial loss.
What you’ll need: - 10+ years of relevant fraud or financial crime operations experience managing multiple teams in large or super regional Financial Institutions.
- Strongly Preferred: Extensive work in Fraud Investigation operations and using data to drive operational excellence.
- Investment Securities Fraud experience is a plus.
Compensation And Benefits The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.
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