Director, Compliance
Ramp
About Ramp
Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save businesses time and money. Combining corporate cards with expense management, bill payments, vendor management, accounting automation, and more, Ramp's all-in-one solution frees finance teams to do the best work of their lives. More than 25,000 companies, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $1B and 10M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over 35 billion dollars in purchases each year.
Ramp's investors include Sequoia, Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Greylock, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.
Ramp has been named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn's Top U.S. Startups for over 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential Companies.
About the Role
We are looking for a compliance professional to lead our Compliance Team. You will own the policies, procedures, and technology stack for our compliance program, which spans numerous financial products in multiple jurisdictions. You will work with partners in Legal, Risk, Product, and Marketing to provide operational support and oversight, and you will liaise with external financial institution partners and regulators. You will also conduct financial crimes investigations and file required regulatory reports, and will work to identify and mitigate financial crime risks to Ramp’s business. This role requires a deep understanding and familiarity with KYC/KYB, BSA/AML, sanctions, and related regulatory regimes. You should have the ability to gauge and balance risk, to take on a variety of small and big tasks, and to independently drive a broad set of projects.
What You’ll Do
Conduct and operationalize KYC/KYB, enhanced due diligence, transaction monitoring, and suspicious activity investigations and reporting (SARs) and iterate and improve on these processes
Partner with Risk, Legal, Product, and Engineering to build or integrate compliance tooling to increase operational efficiency
Develop and refine compliance policies and procedures by leveraging experience, legal and regulatory guidance, and external and internal data
Partner with data analysts to help develop KPIs and build monitoring dashboards
Work with internal and external stakeholders to document processes, escalations, trainings, and updates across Ramp
Program-manage relationships with financial institution partners
Liaise and develop relationships with regulators, examiners, and auditors
Conduct internal monitoring and audits of compliance functions pursuant to internal policy and external obligations
What You Need
Minimum 6 years of experience in compliance or related operational teams
Familiarity with KYC/KYB, BSA/AML, sanctions, EDD, and financial crimes compliance
Experience building and scaling a compliance team
Experience in the Fintech sector preferred
Proven ability to understand complex business and regulatory issues and translate them into actionable guidance
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Investigative and critical thinking skills
Nice to Haves
Accreditation by ACAMS, an equivalent industry body, or other qualifications in the areas of financial crime, risk management, or compliance
Experience in high growth start-ups
Experience at a fintech or helping to build complex financial products
Experience supporting operations, growth & finance teams
Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)
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100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
Partially covered for your dependents
One Medical annual membership
401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
Flexible PTO
Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
WFH stipend to support your home office needs
Wellness stipend
Parental Leave
Relocation support for NY
Pet insurance
Other notices
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.