Chargeback Operations Analyst

**Chargeback Analyst (AM Shift)**

**About the Role**:
Sezzle is seeking a Chargeback Analyst to support fraud monitoring. As a Chargeback Analyst, you will be responsible for analyzing and responding to card and ACH disputes filed against Sezzle. Working closely with our fraud/risk team and our customer disputes team, you will navigate issues on a case by case basis to determine the best course of action to help our customers get unstuck. Analysts will also make recommendations to our Chargeback Manager on how to improve and scale our processes. We are looking for a teammate who can work full-time Monday through Friday between 9:00 am - 5:30 pm - Central Time. This will be a non-exempt/hourly position.

**Our Company**

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose long-standing mission is to financially empower the next generation. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a subprime credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores.

This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the numerous eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle.

As the first and only B-Corp in the payments space, Sezzle's goal is to help everyone pursue financial freedom, and to invest in social good and ethical initiatives that shape a better world.

At Sezzle, we're committed to putting purpose alongside profitability. We work hard to maintain rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency to build a better world. The employees at Sezzle lean into significant societal and cultural shifts, ensuring internal and external focus on positive impacts that benefit our community.

**Responsibilities**:

- Investigate disputed credit card, debit card, and ACH transactions and take suitable action to resolve those disputes within the allowed timeframes.
- Work cross functionally with relevant departments (fraud, disputes) to determine next steps on a case to case basis.
- Investigate individual transactions using internal policies and review methodologies to identify patterns or trends.
- Understand our systems and tools; investigate account patterns through data analysis.
- Collaborate with analysts, operations specialists, data scientists and engineering to improve our loss prevention mechanisms, processes and tools.
- Learn and maintain strong domain knowledge of the world of fraud including prevention techniques and technologies.
- Maintain or exceed established service level agreements (SLAs) for timely resolution of queued cases to minimize potential losses.
- Handle escalations from internal and external stakeholders in a professional and efficient manner.

**Ideal Skills & Experience**:

- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
- Minimum 1 year of experience in processing chargebacks or investigating and resolving fraud incidents
- Experienced in analyzing data and comfortable making impactful decisions in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment
- Attention to detail and ability to multitask
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong business judgment and communication skills
- Ability to self-start and work with mínimal supervision after training
- Able to work through holidays

**Preferred Qualifications**
- 2+ years of experience in processing chargebacks or fraud claims or live transactions against fraudulent activity in e-commerce, banking, fintech or financial institutions is a plus

**About You**:

- A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle.
- A hard-working mentality. It's early and there is still a lot to build.
- An excellent communicator.
- A fun attitude. Life's too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things. Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.

**What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome?**

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Sezzle recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting our mission. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

**Equal Employment Opportunity**: Sezzle Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environ