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Salary: USD 111,000 - 135,000 / annual
Brex is an intelligent finance platform serving tens of thousands of companies globally with corporate cards, banking, spend management, and AI-native automation. The Compliance team ensures Brex grows responsibly while protecting the company and its customers from financial crime and regulatory risks.
As a Risk & Compliance Lead, you will play a critical role in ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies. Reporting directly to the Director of Compliance Governance, you will manage core compliance program processes and frameworks, ensuring Brex adheres to regulatory and partner obligations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and enhancing the organization's compliance program in alignment with regulatory requirements and industry best practices
- Managing compliance issue management, including governance, remediation oversight, reporting, workflow automation, and process improvements
- Conducting compliance reviews of new products and material changes with appropriate risk assessment and stakeholder engagement
- Collaborating with Legal, People, and GRC teams on compliance initiatives such as third-party risk management
- Implementing workflow tools to support compliance program initiatives
- Managing external inquiries from auditors and bank partners, including review, submission, and tracking
- Ensuring timely submission of monthly bank partner reports through cross-functional collaboration
- Representing Brex in external audits and bank partner reviews
- Managing relationships with external auditors and banking partners
The role is based in San Francisco with hybrid flexibility: minimum three coordinated days in office per week (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday), plus up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in compliance or risk within financial services
- Working knowledge of regulations governing card, lending, and deposit products (Regulation B, UDAP/UDAAP, FTC rules, Dodd-Frank)
- Familiarity with BSA/AML and KYC obligations
- Experience contributing to core compliance program work: risk assessments, issue management, policy and procedure maintenance, or regulatory change management
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills for collaboration with bank partners, external auditors, and internal teams
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational and project management abilities
- Hands-on approach with concise, straightforward style
- Commitment to collaboration, teamwork, and delivering excellence
Nice to have:
- Prior experience managing and/or implementing workflow tools
- Generalist approach across multiple compliance program components
- Experience at fintech or banks sponsoring fintech programs
- Experience supporting change management or new product/material change reviews
- Comfort building recurring reporting and dashboards with basic data fluency (Looker, SQL, advanced spreadsheet work)
- Professional certifications (CRCM, CAMS, CRMA, CIA)
- Proficiency in compliance management and audit software
