Sr Manager Fraud

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Within NOA’s Finance & Accounting department, the Payments & Fraud team collaborate with external partners in the payment and fraud industry, as well as global and local internal Nintendo teams, to increase revenues, ensure positive consumer experience, and mitigate fraud. The team also focuses on strategies that optimize consumer payment method options and payment processing, while balancing fraud mitigation with continual monitoring and utilization of various fraud tools, all for NOA’s Direct to Consumer (DTC) channels.

• Continually seeks opportunities and initiatives that will optimize revenues and reduce payment costs.
• Provides payments subject matter expertise and business guidance that will optimize the business revenues, cost reduction payment objectives and a view to maintaining flexibility for future enhancements, where possible.
• Establishes, automates and maintains KPI’s that will allow leadership and team to analyze and report results, identify areas of concern or identify further opportunities and to influence decisions.
• Maintains awareness of payment trends in order to identify industry and consumer preferences that may be appropriate for NOA or Nintendo globally to adopt and coordinates and aligns with Nintendo Company Limited (NCL) and other Nintendo regions for policy, process and system improvements.
• Monitors and evaluates performance, provides feedback, guidance, development, training and task direction to assigned staff.
• Ongoing liaison with peer merchants and trade organizations to increase NOA’s understanding of best practices and industry initiatives that improve Nintendo’s position.
• Manages NOA’s various payment partner business relationships and performance.
• Understands payment rules, compliance requirements and changes to ensure NOA adheres to the regulations.
• Partner with NOA and NCL IT in system performance and drives immediacy for resolution of issues and downtime with root cause analysis, where possible, for implementation of preventative measures.
• Manage fraud strategies to mitigate fraudulent transactions while minimizing impact on NOA’s consumers
• Establishes, automates and maintains fraud KPIs that will help drive appropriate fraud mitigation decisions as well as reporting these to leadership for reporting and influencing decisions.
• Develops data driven analytics and profiles to help identify and differentiate "regular" Nintendo consumer behavior versus fraudulent behavior.
• Works closely with fraud tool provider and analyst to engage in ongoing enhancements and management of the fraud tool’s Machine Learning and rule sets to optimize the risk mitigation and minimize the impact to consumers.
• Works closely with Consumer Service in cross functional strategies that work hand in hand to meet fraud mitigation objectives including but not limited to chargeback disputes and deterrent strategies and policies, create automation that enhances efficiency
• Creates awareness and business alignment with NOA and NCL partners where business initiatives require fraud considerations and implementation.
• Maintains awareness of fraud trends and fraud prevention best practices…