Team Leader, Fraud Operation

Used your contact centre leadership skills to create a dynamic team culture
- We offer flexibility through our Hybrid work model and are open to remote work
- We are one of the fast-growing FinTech's in the payments sector

**Payment systems are complex, regulated and everchanging.**

We are an established market leading brand who are focused on driving client growth. We’re at the forefront of innovation punching above our weight. We’re enabling the future for our clients through tech like NPP, buy now, pay later, and open banking.

Our product teams are the eyes and ears of Cuscal. They’re client-focused relationship managers, serving everything from business development, marketing, fraud, and customer support. They gain a comprehensive understanding of our clients’ needs so that they can integrate our market leading products and services seamlessly.

We are looking for a Team Leader, Fraud Operations to join our team.

This role is responsible for the daily management and leadership of 15 Senior Fraud Officers and Fraud Officers in our Fraud Operations team. This is in Cuscal’s contact centre business which operates in a 24/7 environment. However, the Team Leader role operates within the core business hours Monday to Friday with occasional after hours call support.

Key results will be achieved through leading, developing, empowering, and engaging the team to deliver exceptional customer service to our clients and their customers.

The responsibilities in this role include but are not limited to the following:

- Day to day leadership of up to 15 direct reports, Senior Fraud Officers, and Fraud Officers
- Coach, mentor, and develop staff, providing career development planning and opportunities.
- Work closely with People & Culture on hiring and onboarding new staff, adhering to all company’s policies and procedures.
- Escalation and management of significant items, including any fraud incidents.
- Manage all risks assigned including but not limited to internal audit risks, open actions and risk related issues and continue to improve to mitigate future risks.
- Managing individual and team performance against OKRs (Objectives and Key Result Areas)
- Oversee processes, procedures, and SLAs; ensuring that processes are compliant, efficient and effectively mitigate fraud losses.
- Being the escalation point for any issues or complaints from clients, client’s customers / members, or direct reports (team members)
- Ensuring the team are delivering exceptional customer service according to key business objectives.
- Work with the Senior Manager, and other Team Leads to ensure effective workforce planning for 24/7 environment (rostering, scheduling, leave planning), including out-of-hours on-call support.
- Build and maintain an environment of continuous improvement - processes (manual and automated), policies, scripts, systems, and procedures.

**What’s in it for you?**

When you join Cuscal, you become part of something bigger. You will work with a close-knit team with fantastic opportunities to learn and grow in your career. You’ll be working for a values-based organisation that supports development, internal career moves and flexible working.

**About You**

We are looking for an existing Team Leader who is motivated, enthusiastic, and looking to further their career by developing their leadership skills and abilities.

We invite you to have the following to be considered for this role:

- Demonstrated experience leading support teams within a contact centre environment. (Ideally 2-3 years of Team Leadership experience as a guide)
- Proven track record of coaching and mentoring staff for success
- Experience of working in a highly flexible and fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated experience of stakeholder engagement and ability to manage relationships in a multilayered environment.
- Critical thinking skills and the ability to problem solve in a collaborative and effective manner.
- Proactive mindset and self-assured with the ability to grasp information quickly.
- Clear aptitude to influence and negotiate in consultative manner.
- Highly adaptable and resilient
- Experience within the banking sector will be highly regarded.
- Relevant tertiary qualification is preferred.

**Why Cuscal?**

We are in the rapidly evolving world of payments, and we are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace where the very best talent in Australia chooses to work. We support our colleagues with flexible work arrangements through our hybrid model whilst also offering a wide range of educational, financial, lifestyle, health & wellbeing benefits.

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