Senior Director of Underwriting, Fraud Monitoring & Boarding
Versapay | Remote, CA | remote
Explore Versapay's Senior Director of Underwriting, Fraud Monitoring & Boarding role with current source-backed responsibilities and requirements.
Job description
Versapay is hiring a full-time remote Senior Director of Underwriting, Fraud Monitoring and Boarding in Canada. The role leads merchant boarding, underwriting, exception management, and ongoing risk monitoring for a B2B payments platform preparing for embedded lending capabilities. The current official posting describes a hands-on operating role partnering with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Finance, Sales, sponsor banks, and processors. It covers risk governance, automated decisioning, KYB/KYC, fraud monitoring, portfolio reporting, lending controls, and the use of AR and transaction data to improve decisions.
Requirements
- Eight or more years in payments risk, merchant underwriting, credit risk, or financial-services operations.
- At least three years leading teams or major operational workstreams.
- Deep merchant-underwriting knowledge including KYB/KYC and exposure modelling.
- Experience modernizing boarding processes and automated decisioning.
- Experience with risk, verification, fraud, or transaction-data vendors.
- Strong SQL and analytical skills.
- Ability to use alternative AR, invoice, accounting, and transaction data.
- Strong communication with senior stakeholders.
Skills
- Merchant underwriting
- Payments risk
- KYB
- KYC
- Fraud monitoring
- AML
- OFAC
- SQL
- Portfolio risk
- Risk governance
Location Eligibility
Canada