Head of Risk Operations
Check is a payroll-as-a-service API that lets you embed payroll directly in your vertical SaaS, HR, or time-tracking platform. Our API abstracts away the complexities of running payroll: tax calculation, remittance, and filing, plus the movement of money between companies and employees. This enables companies to easily build fully integrated payroll products to offer to their customers.
As Check continues to scale the number of companies and employees for which we provide payroll services, we are launching a dedicated risk operations team to oversee our company and transaction review processes. This team will be responsible for ensuring Check’s compliance with anti-money laundering and know-your-business requirements, as well as monitoring payrolls to reduce our payments risk.
For this role, we are looking for a Head of Risk Operations with experience reviewing entities and transactions, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a desire to push forward our compliance and risk procedures. As an early team member, you will be responsible for building the team that maintains and improves our risk-prevention systems and advises the risk committee on incidents. In addition, you will be tasked with driving operational and technical process improvements, leading our collections efforts for past due payment transactions, and working with our finance, compliance, legal, payroll operations, engineering and product teams to ensure we are well equipped to support our customers and minimize risk.
In this role, you will:
- Build a team to manage our company and transaction review processes
- Investigate and analyze our data to identify riskier classes of companies and transactions
- Communicate the results of our reviews internally, including to the Risk committee, and externally to our partners and their customers
- Organize Check’s efforts to collect on failed payment transactions, reaching out to our partners and their customers as necessary
- Develop, enhance, and scale our risk-prevention systems while iterating on pre-existing processes to minimize our risk and improve the team’s efficiency
- Work closely with members of our finance, compliance, legal, payroll, engineering and product teams to continuously improve our risk infrastructure and systems
Many backgrounds could fit this role, but ideal candidates:
- Have 6+ years of experience in fraud prevention, risk-analysis, collections, and/or anti-money laundering compliance
- Must have 3+ years working for a bank or licensed money transmitter
- Have worked at a fast-paced, data-driven tech company
- Have strong team management and communication skills
- Enjoy analyzing data to discover common patterns and trends
- Have an understanding of how APIs and payment transactions work
- Are detailed-oriented and capable of managing a process from start to finish
- Are eager to help develop new processes and iterate on existing ones
- Enjoy working with members from across the organization
- Are willing to travel to our SF and NYC hubs
- Familiarity with SQL, Python, and Javascript are bonuses
What we offer:
In the US, Check offers company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability and basic life insurance coverage to all full-time employees, effective on your first day of work. We also provide stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents and flexible return-to-work, 9 annual holidays, a 401k retirement plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses. Benefits may vary outside the US.
The minimum annual salary for this role is $160,000 and may increase based upon each candidate’s unique experience and qualifications.
Check is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Check is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected] with “accommodations” in the subject line.