Director - Front Line Risk Management - Paze (Fintech)

Location: San Francisco, with a hybrid work model. Hybrid positions may also be located in Scottsdale, Chicago, or New York. Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States for any employer.

Salary: $186,000–$232,000 USD per year for New York, NY and San Francisco, CA, plus discretionary incentive plan and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops and operates financial-services and payment solutions, including Zelle and Paze, supporting institutions, consumers, and small businesses.

What you will do

• Build and manage centralized first-line regulatory and audit risk management functions for assigned business lines.
• Coordinate with Enterprise Risk Management, Operational Risk Management, Compliance, and business leadership within the three-lines-of-defense framework.
• Monitor regulations, assess business impact, and drive projects, process changes, and risk remediation.
• Own risk and control self-assessments, business continuity and disaster recovery plans, process inventories, and control environment inventories.
• Oversee third-party relationships, control-effectiveness metrics, issue reporting, risk acceptance processes, and remediation tracking.
• Provide executive-level risk reporting, governance, education, and awareness while mentoring risk professionals when needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, technology, security, or a related field.
• 12 or more years of risk-related experience in financial services or a three-lines-of-defense program.
• Demonstrated success leading regulatory, audit, or risk functions in a complex, highly regulated environment.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements relevant to financial services, payments, or the assigned business line.
• Strong problem-solving, change management, communication, organization, collaboration, and influence skills.
• U.S. work eligibility is required; visa sponsorship is not available. A background and drug screen are required.

Nice to have

• Experience working with executive management and across multiple risk disciplines.
• Knowledge of COSO’s Internal Control – Integrated Framework or a similar framework.
• Risk management, internal control, or internal audit certification.
• Experience writing policies and procedures and leading first-line regulatory and audit activities.
• For the CDO focus area, model risk management and data-management risk experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment supporting collaboration.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with HSA and FSA options.
• 401(k) plan with a 100% company safe-harbor match on the first 6% deferred.
• Flexible time off for exempt employees, paid company holidays, and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave and family-planning support.