Risk Operations Specialist

Risk Operations Specialist Location: Hybrid in New York (3 days in office)

Qualifications:

1+ years of experience within risk, customer experience or payment operations, ideally in the fintech space

1+ years experience working with ZenDesk

Available to work between 9AM through 6PM EST, Monday through Friday

Able to come to the office 3x a week for team collaboration

Experience maintaining personal and group KPIs related to capacity and quality

Excellent interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills

Demonstrated ability to proactively problem solve and be a top-notch team player

Bonus points:

Experience working on a global team

A day in the life and how you’ll make an impact:

Handle frontline fraud decisioning to support ongoing business needs

Manage escalations related to Risk decisioning through cross-functional collaboration

Complete Zendesk tickets and written communications related to end users, internal escalations, partnerships or live payments according to relevant prioritization

Communicate with customers via phone around account recovery efforts

Contribute to projects, collaborate with team members on specialized efforts, and proactively drive new initiatives

About the team:

Melio's innovative platform has created new and exciting ways to engage US small businesses in the payments ecosystem; and as with any financial innovation, this has also introduced threats and vulnerabilities. The Risk & Compliance Team works to protect Melio's platform and users from fraudulent, abusive and prohibited activity. We work cross functionally, with nearly every function in the company, to ensure we are seeing the correct information to make the right decisions.

Our main objectives ensuring our money movement is in line with relevant regulatory obligations and keeping our users safe. Our teams play a critical role in maintaining Melio's reputation, financial stability, and operational continuity.

About Melio USA:

Competitive compensation packages: We strive to make each and every employee feel valued and appreciated. The annual base salary range for this position is $80,000 - $90,000

Medical, dental, vision: We offer highly competitive and selected plans with 100% coverage, FSA and HSA.

401K matching and stock options: Feel the investment of working at a hyper-growth startup.

Wellness: We take a holistic approach to wellness at Melio with a focus on providing financial, physical, emotional, social, and community support for our employees.

Time Off: Time to rest and recharge is a priority for us. We offer competitive vacation time, sick days, holidays, parental leave and wedding days to allow you to take the time you need, when you need it.

Office culture: Remote work in the state of Colorado with site level social events and ad hoc in person team working sessions

Growth and development: Lean on the diverse team to foster professional and personal growth through workshops, mentorship programs, and team building activities.

Melio builds business-to-business (B2B) payment tools so small business owners can spend less time in the back office and more time on their craft. As the fastest-growing B2B payment platform in the US, Melio is working hard to find new and better ways to help small businesses succeed in the ways that work best for them.