Head of Financial Crimes Compliance

Rho
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 200,000 - 275,000 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceSkills: ["People management","Customer-centricity","Execution","Agility","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Build and lead Rho’s first fraud and financial crimes compliance program from the ground up. Define strategy and operational frameworks for detecting, preventing, and responding to risks across business banking and corporate card products. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data to develop analytics and controls, enhance KYC/KYB and transaction monitoring, run incident forensics, and hire and develop a fraud risk team.

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Head of Financial Crimes Compliance

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Job Summary

Build and lead Rho’s first fraud and financial crimes compliance program from the ground up. Define strategy and operational frameworks for detecting, preventing, and responding to risks across business banking and corporate card products. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data to develop analytics and controls, enhance KYC/KYB and transaction monitoring, run incident forensics, and hire and develop a fraud risk team.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define, own, and continuously evolve fraud and financial crimes prevention and detection strategy across business banking and corporate card products.
  • •Partner with Data, Engineering, and Product to develop fraud models and analytics, including ML models and behavioral graphs, and drive continuous improvement.
  • •Own and enhance business KYC/KYB and transaction monitoring to prevent fraud and reduce false positives.
  • •Lead critical incident response, run war-room forensics, automate remediations, and translate post-mortems into improved models and processes.
  • •Partner with Product, Engineering, and Compliance to design, launch, and iterate risk controls, and hire and develop a fraud function team.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 275,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsurancePaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of experience in fraud risk management and team leadership.
  • •Technical fluency applying advanced analytics to fraud problems at scale.
  • •Strong B2B domain knowledge of fraud patterns across business onboarding (KYB), payment flows, and commercial account risks.
  • •Up-to-date knowledge of US banking, AML, and payments regulations and emerging fraud schemes.
  • •Ability to balance robust fraud controls with strong customer experience for commercial/B2B clients.
Experience:Fraud risk managementFinancial servicesB2B
Skills:People managementCustomer-centricityExecutionAgilityCross-functional collaboration
Tech Stack:Machine learning

Company Brief

Rho
Provides an integrated corporate banking platform offering business accounts, corporate cards, bill pay, and treasury management to help companies manage cash, spend, and payments with modern banking and spend controls.
Industry: Corporate Banking
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2019
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