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.