Head of Payments Compliance, Modern Treasury
$150-250k
+ Offer Equity
Payment operations solutions
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Payment operations solutions
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-250k
+ Offer Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To transform how teams mov and track money - to support impactful businesses rooted in trust and transparency.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in compliance, risk, or regulatory roles in financial services, banking, or fintech
- Deep expertise in BSA/AML, OFAC, and money transmission frameworks
- Experience managing compliance programs involving bank partnerships, FBO structures, or money movement through regulated entities
- Familiarity with compliance considerations related to stablecoins or other digital asset payment flows preferred
- Strong understanding of financial partner management and third-party oversight
- Proven ability to scale compliance operations through automation and technology
- Excellent judgment, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- CAMS, CRCM, or equivalent certification preferred
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Head of Payments Compliance to lead and evolve Modern Treasury’s compliance program as we expand into the flow of funds
- This role will oversee our AML/BSA, sanctions, fraud, and consumer compliance programs, ensuring adherence not only to regulatory obligations but also to the expectations of our bank partners and other financial institutions
- The Head of Compliance reports to the VP, Legal and works closely with Product, Engineering, and Risk to design scalable, technology-forward compliance systems that enable responsible innovation
- Lead the design and implementation of Modern Treasury’s compliance framework across AML/BSA, sanctions, fraud, and consumer protection
- Serve as the designated BSA Officer, responsible for AML compliance, suspicious activity reporting, and program governance
- Oversee compliance with bank partner agreements, including due diligence, audit coordination, reporting, and ongoing oversight
- Develop scalable processes and systems to support potential future licensing regimes (e.g., MTLs, trust charters) while maintaining compliance through existing FBO and bank partnership structures
- Advise the VP, Legal and executive team on compliance risks, regulatory trends, and program performance
- Serve as the primary compliance point of contact for bank partners, auditors, and regulators (FinCEN, OFAC, state agencies)
- Conduct and oversee enterprise risk assessments, control testing, and remediation
- Ensure program readiness for participation in payments systems (FedNow, RTP, ACH) and emerging asset types such as stablecoins or tokenized deposits
- Partner with Legal and Business Development to structure and maintain compliant bank relationships
- Embed compliance requirements into customer onboarding, payment processing, and ledger operations
- Collaborate with engineering to enhance transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and case management tools
- Evaluate and implement compliance technology solutions for KYC, data analytics, and transaction monitoring
- Work with Product and Partnerships to align compliance practices with product design and risk tolerance
- Join a company building the next generation of financial infrastructure
- Partner with leading banks, regulators, and technology teams to build safe, transparent systems for moving money
- Play a central role in ensuring compliance is a differentiator and enabler of responsible growth
Our take
Modern Treasury is a fintech company looking to modernize legacy B2B banking by accelerating the pace of payments. Its payments operation software offers real-time transaction tracking and an API or dashboard to help companies manage payments from a single place. With approximately $120 trillion in B2B business payments processed annually globally, Modern Treasury is tapping into a huge market opportunity.
Key to the success of its offering has been to renovate legacy payment methods, such as checks. Its software significantly reduces the processing time required to carry out transactions - and is applicable across a broad swathe of high-value sectors like real estate, healthcare, and financial services.
With rapid market expansion and accelerating digital transformation, Modern Treasury has experienced impressive growth since its 2018 founding, quickly achieving Unicorn status. Partnerships with Metropolitan Commercial Banks and products like Global ACH highlight suits value and adept navigation of a growing customer base.
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Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2022
$50m
SERIES C
Oct 2021
$85m
SERIES C
Total funding: $183.2m
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dimitri Dadiomov
(CEO)They studied at Stanford and Harvard, and have held senior positions at Foundation Capital and LendingHome.
Matt Marcus
(CPO)A Dartmouth graduate and former Y Combinator member, they previously worked at LendingHome as a Senior Software Engineer.
Sam Aarons
(CTO)They studied Computer Science at Columbia and were a Senior Software Engineer at LendingHome.
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