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Jonas Software

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

Construction • Consulting • Healthcare

Jonas Software is a prominent acquirer of vertical market software companies, with a rich history of over 20 years. The company focuses on mission-critical software solutions across various industries, aiming to provide business tools and a network for growth. Jonas Software operates under a decentralized structure, allowing acquired companies to maintain their autonomy while tapping into Jonas's extensive experience and best practices. They adhere to a 'buy & hold forever' strategy, ensuring long-term stability and a permanent home for acquired businesses. With more than 130 successful acquisitions under its belt and being part of Constellation Software, Jonas Software emphasizes preserving the legacy and culture of the companies it acquires, fostering a culture of sharing and leveraging expertise in vertical market software.

📋 Description

• Monitor merchant activity for fraud, compliance, reputational, operational, ACH, chargeback, and transaction-related risks, investigating flagged activity including held transactions, large tickets, refunds, duplicate transactions, excessive authorizations/declines, suspicious processing behavior, and emerging risk trends. • Conduct merchant risk reviews and maintain complete case documentation, investigations, outreach, escalations, follow-ups, and resolution records within Salesforce. • Manage bank account change reviews, including validation, verification, approvals, system updates, quality control, and ongoing post-change monitoring for suspicious activity, refunds, returns, chargebacks, and other elevated risk indicators. • Support ongoing merchant monitoring programs, including website reviews, LegitScript screenings, alert investigations, negative media reviews, sanctions screening, regulatory concerns, prohibited activity reviews, and escalation of significant findings. • Perform enhanced due diligence and monitoring for high-risk industries, MCCs, NEC classifications, non-profits, firearms/ammunition merchants, and other restricted or sensitive business categories. • Monitor chargeback, ACH, and NACHA-related activity, including return rates, unauthorized and administrative returns, recurring payment activity, threshold monitoring, trend analysis, and remediation efforts with merchants, partners, and internal stakeholders. • Support periodic KYC/KYB refreshes, merchant portfolio reviews, and documentation validation to ensure ongoing compliance and business model alignment. • Maintain risk monitoring logs, investigation records, reporting dashboards, and tracking tools while preparing recurring reports on monitoring activity, escalations, investigations, high-risk merchants, and emerging portfolio trends. • Document investigations clearly and objectively, including findings, evidence, risk assessments, decisions, ownership, and recommended next steps, escalating critical fraud, compliance, sanctions, regulatory, or operational risks to leadership as required. • Support risk process improvements, reporting enhancements, underwriting initiatives, and other operational projects while performing additional duties assigned by leadership to support evolving business needs. • Operate effectively in a rapidly changing environment, adapting to shifting priorities, workloads, procedures, risk controls, regulatory requirements, and business initiatives. • Take ownership of new responsibilities, support cross-functional projects, and perform miscellaneous duties assigned by management to meet evolving organizational needs.

🎯 Requirements

• 1–3 years of experience in risk operations, underwriting, payment operations, fraud monitoring, banking operations, compliance operations, or a similar role. • Working understanding of payment processing workflows, merchant accounts, transaction monitoring, chargebacks, ACH returns, refunds, and risk flags. • Strong attention to detail with the ability to validate documentation, identify inconsistencies, and maintain accurate case notes and trackers. • Ability to manage multiple open reviews, follow-ups, escalations, and time-sensitive cases at once. • Strong written communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with partners, merchants, and internal stakeholders. • Comfort working with CRM/case management tools, spreadsheets, and operational trackers. • Ability to follow documented procedures while identifying gaps, control weaknesses, or opportunities for process improvement. • Sound judgment, professionalism, and discretion when handling sensitive merchant, banking, fraud, and compliance information. • Ability to work cross-functionally with Risk, Underwriting, Onboarding, Merchant Support, Finance, Product, and partner-facing teams. • Working knowledge of ACH processing, NACHA Operating Rules, ACH return codes, unauthorized return thresholds, administrative returns, and ACH risk monitoring best practices. • Ability to review and investigate ACH-related risk indicators, including unusual return activity, account validation concerns, transaction anomalies, and merchant processing trends.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. • 401(k) with 100% vested company match from day one. • 15 vacation days, 5 sick days, and 1 personal day annually. • Participation in our Employee Share Program (Ticker: CSU.TO).