Fraud Operations Manager

About the job

About The Company Founders today are building global companies from day one — but the systems that manage their money were built for a different era. Aspire exists to change that! We’re building the financial operating system for global founders, bringing banking, software, and automation into a single platform so businesses can move faster across borders and stay focused on building. Aspire is ... built by people who think from first principles, care deeply about solving hard problems, and take real ownership of their work. Our team brings global experience from leading fintech and technology companies, and many of us are former founders and operators who understand what it takes to build thoughtfully, make trade-offs, and deliver at scale in a global environment.Backed by leading global investors including Y Combinator, Peak XV, and Lightspeed, Aspire has been trusted by more than 50,000 startups and growing businesses worldwide to manage their finances since 2018. Together with partners like J.P. Morgan, Visa, and Wise, we’re building for the next generation of global companies. About The Team At Aspire, we are committed to empowering our customers throughout their journey with us. The team combines operational rigor, data insights, and cross-functional collaboration to detect, investigate, and prevent fraud. We work closely with product, engineering, strategy, and compliance to continuously enhance detection capabilities, improve and secure customer experience and reduce losses. Your decisions will directly reduce losses and strengthen protection for thousands of Aspire customers globally. About The Role We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Fraud Operations Manager to join our team. You will lead Aspire’s day-to-day fraud operations, managing a team of analysts to detect, investigate, and mitigate fraud across products, processes, and geographies. The role drives operational excellence, refines processes, and ensures scalable workflows while partnering with risk, compliance, product, engineering, and support teams. Your responsibilities will include: OPERATIONAL LEADERSHIP • Lead and manage daily fraud operations, including case review, investigation workflows, queue health, and SLA performance. • Oversee a team of fraud analysts, providing coaching, performance feedback, and career development to build a high-performing, motivated team. • Establish and maintain operational metrics, dashboards, and KPIs to measure team effectiveness, fraud trends, and loss outcomes. • Act as an escalation point for complex or high-impact fraud cases and decisions. PROCESS & CONTROLS • Develop, refine, and implement fraud investigation processes, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and escalation rules that ensure high quality and consistency. • Collaborate with the fraud strategy, product, engineering, and data teams to operationalize controls, streamline review workflows, and contribute to strategy by identifying emerging fraud patterns and recommending countermeasures and process enhancements. • Conduct root cause analysis of fraud trends and implement process improvements to enhance detection and reduce false positives. CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION • Partner with risk, compliance, and legal teams to ensure fraud operations align with regulatory requirements and internal risk frameworks. • Work with customer support to improve fraud communication, resolution quality, and customer experience.

Requirements

• Operational leadership
• People management
• Fraud operations
• Analytical mindset

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business
• Finance
• Risk Management

Preferred Technologies

• Operational leadership
• People management
• Fraud operations
• Analytical mindset

About the company

Aspire exists to change that! We’re building the financial operating system for global founders, bringing banking, software, and automation into a single platform so businesses can move faster across borders and stay focused on building. Backed by leading global investors including Y Combinator, Peak XV, and Lightspeed, Aspire has been trusted by more than 50,000 startups and growing businesses worldwide to manage their finances since 2018.