Risk Operations Specialist

Parafin

• $118K — $123K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of work experience
  • 2-3 years in fintech, banking, or payments
  • Strong understanding of payments
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Detail-oriented with a quantitative background
  • Comfortable in an entrepreneurial environment

Responsibilities

  • Develop operational solutions to evaluate business risk
  • Automate and streamline operations processes
  • Conduct reviews of risk factors for merchants
  • Troubleshoot and resolve merchant payment issues
  • Manage cross-functional collaboration to enhance merchant experience
  • Provide feedback on process improvements
  • Identify areas of risk and investigate fraudulent activity
  • Use data-driven analysis to pinpoint optimization opportunities

Benefits

  • Equity grant
  • Medical, dental & vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Work-from-home flexibility
  • Commuter benefits
  • Free lunches
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401(k)
  • Employee assistance program
Full Job Description
About the Position

We are looking for a Product Operations Specialist to help us scale operations and grow our capital products.

This role will be a critical operator of the company's product suite by providing a positive experience for the small businesses we support. You will be responsible for running and building best-in-class processes for payments and fraud. You will become an expert on Parafin's Capital products, digging deep into the details to solve problems, and being an on-the-ground operator to support day-to-day functions, from troubleshooting payment issues to data analysis to building documentation.

Are you an adaptable all-rounder who is passionate in building at scale, while enjoying rolling up your sleeves to get the job done? Are you excited to work collaboratively at a fast-growing startup to help grow small businesses? If so, come join us!

What You'll Be Doing:
  • Assist in developing operational solutions to help evaluate complex business risk issues in a fast-paced environment
  • Find solutions to automate and streamline ops processes, leading efforts to build in-house or finding external vendors
  • Conduct reviews to assess risk factors for high-priority merchants
  • Troubleshoot and resolve payment issues with our merchants, while providing high-quality service via email and phone
  • Manage cross-functional work streams with our customer support, data science, compliance, and engineering teams to improve the merchant experience and grow capital originations
  • Review current processes and provide feedback on how to improve product operations and Parafin as a whole
  • Work closely with our partners to identify areas of risk and investigate fraudulent behavior
  • Use data-driven analysis to identify areas of optimization and growth

What We're Searching For:
  • 3 - 5 years of work experience
  • 2 - 3 years of operational experience working in a fintech startup, bank, or payments company
  • Strong understanding of payments
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong quantitative / detail-oriented background
  • Thrive in an entrepreneurial environment

We Prefer If You Have:
  • Experience with fraud/ risk management
  • Strong understanding of, or desire to learn, about a capital or lending product
  • Fluency in, or desire to learn, data analysis skills and tools, such as SQL / R / Python

What We Offer
  • Salary Range: $118k - $123k
  • Equity grant
  • Medical, dental & vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Work-from-home flexibility
  • Commuter benefits
  • Free lunches
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401(k)
  • Employee assistance program


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