Financial Crimes Manager, Flex
$140-180k
Financial platform for business
Be an early applicant
Financial platform for business
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-180k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To reimagine every single aspect of the financial workflow and financial services for any entrepreneur.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires curiosity, ownership, and the ability to balance regulatory expectations with real-world execution in a fast-moving fintech environment
- You thrive in environments where the answer isn’t handed to you—you help create it
- You’re part detective, part builder, and part problem-solver, and you like digging until the real story reveals itself
- You understand that great financial crime programs don’t just check boxes—they enable responsible growth and protect customers and the business
- You bias toward action, take ownership, and don’t wait for someone else to fix it
- You bring clarity, calm judgment, and accountability to complex and high-stakes situations
- You communicate directly, collaborate well, and know how to balance strong controls with business practicality
- 5–8+ years of experience in financial crime compliance, AML/BSA, fraud risk management, transaction monitoring, or a related risk function within fintech, financial services, or a regulated payments environment
- Strong understanding of BSA/AML, OFAC/sanctions, KYC/CIP, CDD/EDD requirements, and how they apply to fintechs and bank partnerships
- Experience designing, implementing, or maturing financial crime controls, including program documentation, monitoring frameworks, workflows, governance, and reporting structures
- Hands-on experience with transaction monitoring and/or fraud detection programs, including rule strategy, tuning, alert handling, investigations, typologies, and playbook development
- Demonstrated ability to analyze data and trends, synthesize insights, and translate signals into practical risk mitigation actions
- Comfortable working with vendors and technology platforms (KYC, sanctions screening, fraud detection, transaction monitoring tools), including evaluating performance and driving continuous improvement
- A builder mindset—you thrive in environments where programs are evolving, structure needs to be created, and you can balance regulatory expectations with practical execution
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder partnership skills, with the ability to influence, educate, and collaborate across legal, product, engineering, operations, and leadership teams
- Strong judgment and risk-based thinking—able to navigate ambiguity, make sound decisions, and escalate when appropriate
- Attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities and execute in a fast-moving, high-growth environment
- Commitment to maintaining the highest standards of integrity, accountability, and professionalism in support of Flex’s mission and customers
- At Flex, we value passion, determination, and honesty. Even if you don't fully match the job specifics, we encourage you to apply. Unusual career paths and unique skills can help you stand out
What the job involves
- As Flex’s Sr Manager - Financial Crimes Compliance, you will be at the forefront of building and scaling our financial crime risk management capabilities as we continue rapid growth
- Reporting to Flex’s AML Officer, you will help shape and execute our strategy across AML/BSA, sanctions, KYC/CIP, transaction monitoring, and fraud risk management
- This is a hands-on role for someone who can think strategically while also rolling up their sleeves to operationalize programs, design controls, analyze data, and lead investigations
- You will help build and mature Flex’s financial crime prevention framework, including designing monitoring and screening capabilities, developing program documentation and governance, identifying emerging risks, and partnering across the business to embed practical, effective controls
- Partner with product, risk, operations, engineering, and business teams to develop, implement, and refine policies, controls, and workflows across AML/BSA, Sanctions/OFAC, CIP/KYC, CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, and fraud
- Build and enhance transaction monitoring and fraud detection capabilities, including rules, thresholds, typology development, alert handling procedures, QA, and documentation to support regulatory expectations and operational efficiency
- Lead the design and oversight of internal and vendor-based screening/monitoring tools (KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, fraud tools), ensuring effective tuning, governance, change management, and continuous improvement
- Analyze trends across AML alerts, suspicious activity, account behavior, fraud attempts, chargebacks, and transactional anomalies to identify emerging threats, recommend remediations, and drive control enhancements
- Stand up and refine fraud response processes including case handling, escalation protocols, and cross-functional incident response collaboration
- Manage and prioritize projects across financial crimes scope, establishing operational cadence and driving coordination between technical, legal, data, and operations stakeholders
- Track regulatory, legal, and industry developments related to BSA/AML, KYC, OFAC, fintech financial crime, and fraud; translate requirements into practical program updates and business guidance
- Support the BSA Officer in evolving Flex’s Financial Crimes Program, including policy documentation, risk assessments, governance reporting, and annual program reviews
- Develop and deliver training programs supporting AML, sanctions, fraud awareness, transaction monitoring, and financial crime obligations across the organization
- Perform periodic assessments and thematic risk reviews to identify gaps, vulnerabilities, and control performance opportunities; propose targeted enhancements
- Serve as a key advisor to stakeholders across the company on AML, sanctions, KYC, and fraud risk matters; escalate issues appropriately and with clarity
- Support internal audits, bank partner reviews, and regulatory examinations, and coordinate remediation efforts where findings arise
- Design and maintain reporting and dashboards communicating program performance, key risk indicators, trends, and outcomes to senior leadership and partners
Our take
Flex, formerly known as Flexbase, supplies credit and finance management tools for small and midsize business (SMBs). At the core of its offering is a credit card, with a complimentary platform that collects all finance operations into one easy-to-manage app.
Perhaps the most intriguing part of Flex's approach is the credit card itself, which comes with 0% interest for 60 days. Through this, businesses can enhance their cash flow and be more flexible in investing in growth. Besides this, users can also issue virtual employee cards at no extra cost, and use functions such as receipt capture and free ach/wire payments.
Having steadily grown its offering over the years, Flex has raised significant funding to expand its business and accelerate growth. Demand for its solutions has expanded beyond its initial focus on the construction industry to target clients across logistics, e-commerce, real estate and other sectors. After raising $85 million over two rounds in 2025, Flex has launched a Google Pay partnership and the Visa Infinite Business Credit Card, with enhanced benefits for business owners.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2025
$60m
SERIES B
Mar 2025
$25m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $123.2m
Company benefits
- Paid medical, dental & vision
- 401k & life insurance
- PTO
- Remote work w/ semi-annual offsites in exotic locations
- Experienced founding team
- Well-funded company with significant horsepower and runway
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zaid Rahman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Angel Investor with 305 Ventures, and Thiel Fellow of The Thiel Foundation. Former Co-founder and Founding CEO of Volley.
Hadi Solh
(Co-Founder)Partner at Atmos Ventures. Was Board Director at Oxford Ionics, Nethone and ORCA Computing. Former Chief Investment Officer for Depa Group.
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