Head of Fintech Operations
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Head of Fintech Operations Industry: Global Payroll / Embedded Fintec hLocation: Remote (within ±3 hours GST ) What You'll O wnJoin a team who moves money to 35,000+ workers across 115 countries every month, in markets global fintechs have never bothered to build for.
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Industry: Global Payroll And Embedded Fintec
hLocation: Remote (within ±3 hours GST
)
What You'Ll O
wnJoin a team who moves money to 35,000+ workers across 115 countries every month, in markets global fintechs have never bothered to build for.
That infrastructure has been run by the CEO.
Now it needs its own leade
r.
You’ll be the highest level of escalation for everything payments, cards, and financial infrastructure.
You own the P&L, drive cost reduction across corridors, negotiate with banks and PSPs, and work with product and engineering to push automation and launch new produc
ts.
What You'Ll Focu
- s OnOwn and execute fintech operations strategy across pay-ins, pay-outs, and c
- ardsSenior escalation point for all payment and fintech issues, removing the CEO from the
- loopNegotiate and manage commercial relationships with banks, PSPs, and payment infrastructure providers; drive cost reduction across corri
- dorsOwn the P&L across fintech products and use data to drive perform
- anceBuild automation into manual processes and establish SOPs across the func
- tionWork within a compliance framework managed by a dedicated team (KYC, KYB, AML); collaboration required, not owner
- shipLead a team of payments PM, 7-person support team, and 2 compliance analysts day-to
Who Yo
- u Are8+ years in fintech, payments, or financial product operations at a fast-scaling co
- mpanyHands-on operator, not a people ma
- nagerStrong grasp of payment systems, digital wallets, cards, and multi-corridor banking infrastru
- ctureProven track record negotiating with banks and PSPs and owning a payments P&
- amp;LSolid working knowledge of AML, KYC, and licensing frame
- worksOperated across emerging market corridors: MENA, Africa, South or Southeast
- AsiaLaunched fintech products: stored-value accounts, embedded cards, or salary ad
- vance
Why You'Ll Thriv
- e HereFirst-ever hire into this function, reporting directly to t
- he CEOThe only global payroll platform with a full fintech layer for workers in emerging ma
- rkets:$800M+ in cross-border payroll facilitated, built on a fraction of the capital raised by category l
- eadersPost-Series B (has raised a total of $22.9 million across 3 rounds), targeting 2.5x growth over the next 12
- monthsCompliance function already in place and led by a highly experienced op
- eratorRemote role based within ±3 hou
- rs GST
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