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OpenFX

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2024

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

🛍️ eCommerce

Fintech • Banking • eCommerce

OpenFX is a modern financial infrastructure company that specializes in real-time cross-border payments. It provides a comprehensive solution for finance teams, enabling quick and efficient money movement across various global corridors with support for over 40 currency pairs. OpenFX offers features such as instant settlements, transparent pricing, and 24/7 availability, allowing clients like payment service providers and neo banks to optimize their operations without historical banking limitations.

📋 Description

• Lead members of the Compliance Ops team across KYB, KYC, transaction monitoring, sanctions, blockchain analytics, customer risk review, and case review workflows. • Own the day-to-day operating model for analyst reviews, escalations, QA, backlog management, and case resolution. • Build a scalable team rhythm around productivity, quality, SLAs, escalations, and continuous improvement. • Set clear expectations for review quality, evidence standards, case notes, decisioning, and escalation discipline. • Coach, manage, and develop analysts and managers as the team scales. • Work with second line Compliance, Legal, and other Compliance Ops team members to translate policy and regulatory expectations into practical operational workflows. • Help design and maintain review procedures, checklists, control processes, and operational playbooks for KYB, KYC, transaction monitoring, sanctions, wallet screening, and suspicious activity escalation. • Own the implementation and adoption of these workflows across the Compliance Ops team. • Build quality assurance processes to identify review gaps, improve consistency, and strengthen operational controls. • Partner with Compliance and Legal on edge cases, escalation criteria, remediation workflows, and review standards. • Ensure records, case notes, decisioning, and supporting evidence are complete, consistent, and audit ready. • Own the Compliance Ops perspective on tooling, workflow design, case management, transaction monitoring, blockchain analytics, customer risk review, and operational dashboards. • Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Compliance, Legal, and vendors to improve analyst workflows and reduce unnecessary manual work.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in compliance operations, financial crime operations, AML, KYC, KYB, sanctions, transaction monitoring, or related areas. • Significant experience leading teams, managing managers, or scaling operational functions in fintech, payments, banking, crypto, trading, or financial services. • Strong understanding of AML, sanctions, KYC, KYB, transaction monitoring, customer risk review, and suspicious activity escalation workflows. • Experience building operational standards, review procedures, QA processes, control frameworks, and management reporting. • Ability to partner effectively with second line Compliance and Legal teams while owning operational execution. • Experience working with case management systems, transaction monitoring tools, KYC/KYB vendors, sanctions screening tools, or blockchain analytics platforms. • Strong judgment, attention to detail, and ability to identify operational risk quickly. • Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, hiring, and building team culture. • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced startup environment where processes need to be built, improved, and scaled quickly.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package. • Equity in a rapidly growing company. • Opportunity to work in a fast-paced startup at the forefront of fintech innovation. • Opportunity to make a significant impact on global financial infrastructure. • Collaborative work culture with emphasis on personal and professional growth.