Head of Risk

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About the role

  • Head of Risk shaping fraud prevention, compliance, and scalable controls for Veem’s global payment products. Leading cross-functional risk strategy across fintech operations and payment rails.

Responsibilities

  • Set and lead Veem’s risk, fraud-prevention, and compliance strategy across payment products and global operations
  • Build and improve scalable risk frameworks, policies, controls, and escalation processes
  • Guide the company’s approach to AML/CFT, sanctions, fraud, customer and business verification, and data privacy risk
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to embed risk controls into product design, payment flows, and internal systems
  • Use data, automation, and compliance technology to strengthen risk detection and improve control scalability
  • Advise on risk across cards, ACH, wires, and real-time payment rails
  • Support expansion into new markets by identifying risks and jurisdiction-specific requirements
  • Evaluate, select, and manage third-party risk technology vendors
  • Collaborate with Operations, Legal, Product, Engineering, and Data to assess issues, manage escalations, and improve controls
  • Communicate risk priorities, decisions, and trade-offs to senior leaders and cross-functional partners

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in risk, compliance, or fraud within payments, fintech, or financial services
  • Leadership experience across risk and compliance programs for payment products, ideally in a global company
  • Experience with AML/CFT, sanctions, fraud, customer and business verification, and data privacy risk
  • Experience building scalable risk frameworks, policies, controls, and escalation processes
  • Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Data teams
  • Experience with payment products and rails, including cards, ACH, wires, and real-time payments
  • Experience evaluating and managing third-party KYC, transaction monitoring, fraud, and sanctions technology vendors

Benefits

  • Bonus eligibility for all Veem employees
  • Opportunities for career growth in a growing fintech company
  • Opportunity to use and build AI capabilities on the job
  • Innovative fintech products and technology

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Ruby on Rails

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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