Sao Paulo, Brazil Hybrid Full-time BRL 271,932 / year

Brex is hiring a Manager, Banking Operations

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of Banking Operations analysts by setting priorities, coaching performance, and building a high-accountability culture grounded in sound judgment, accuracy, and strong documentation standards.
  • Oversee payment monitoring across Fedwire, SWIFT, ACH, checks, and stablecoins, ensuring alerts, exceptions, and escalations are reviewed on time and resolved with clear, risk-based decisions.
  • Build scalable operating frameworks for onboarding, quality assurance, escalation management, and coverage planning that improve consistency as the team and business grow.
  • Advance Brex’s AI-native goals by identifying high-impact use cases, driving thoughtful AI adoption across the team, and partnering on tools and workflows that improve speed, quality, and control.
  • Partner closely with Compliance, Legal, Product, Engineering, and external banking partners to strengthen controls, resolve issues quickly, and support operational readiness for new workflows and product changes.
  • Drive continuous improvement by identifying root causes, refining procedures, and advancing automation that increases throughput without compromising control quality.
  • Translate frontline insights into clear reporting and actionable recommendations for leadership, surfacing trends, risks, and process gaps that matter to the broader Banking Operations strategy.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in US banking operations, payments operations, compliance operations, or a related function within a bank, fintech, or other regulated financial services environment.
  • 2+ years of people management experience, with a track record of coaching employees, raising performance, and building strong, accountable teams.
  • Working knowledge of high-risk money movement workflows and payment rails such as wires, ACH, checks, SWIFT, or similar transaction monitoring and exception management environments.
  • Practical fluency with AI tools such as Claude, Hex, Granola, and Glean, with a strong point of view on where AI can improve team effectiveness, decision quality, and operational scale in a control-heavy environment.
  • Strong judgment, including the ability to assess risk, make sound escalation decisions, and maintain clear, audit-ready documentation.
  • Experience partnering cross-functionally with teams such as Compliance, Legal, Product, Engineering, Treasury, Finance, or external banking partners to resolve issues and improve processes.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn operational complexity into concise guidance, actionable feedback, and leadership-ready updates.
  • A builder mindset with strong operational discipline and the ability to improve workflows, strengthen procedures, and use data or automation to scale quality and efficiency.

Nice to Have

  • Series 7 and 63
  • Series 24
  • Accredited ACH Professional (AAP)
  • Accredited Payments Professional (APRP)
  • Experience supporting multi-rail payment operations such as wires, ACH, checks, SWIFT, stablecoins, money market trading, or settlement workflows.
  • Familiarity with AML, sanctions, fraud, or transaction monitoring programs in a regulated financial environment.
  • Comfort using data, dashboards, SQL, Excel, or AI tools to identify trends, improve decision-making, or automate manual work.
  • Experience using AI copilots or LLM-based tools to streamline operational workflows such as SOP drafting, exception analysis, QA reviews, reporting, or incident response.
  • Strong judgment around AI adoption, including when to use human review, how to validate outputs, and how to apply AI responsibly in a control-heavy environment.
  • Experience leading through audits, incidents, regulatory exams, or high-severity operational escalations.
  • Exposure to working with external banking partners, vendors, or fintech infrastructure providers to improve operational workflows and controls.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Sao Paulo

Additional Information

  • This role will be based in our Sao Paulo office.
  • We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home.
  • We currently require a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
  • As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!
  • Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.
Required Skills
Fintech
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Brex
Brex is the AI-powered spend platform. We help companies spend with confidence with integrated corporate cards, banking, and global payments, plus intuitive software for travel and expenses. Tens of thousands of companies from startups to enterprises use Brex to proactively control spend, reduce costs, and increase efficiency on a global scale.
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Department Banking Operations
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Posted a month ago