Manager, Banking Operations

Brex Brex · Fintech · Salt Lake City, UT +1 · Risk & Credit

Manager, Banking Operations at Brex, leading a team responsible for overseeing payment monitoring across various rails (Fedwire, SWIFT, ACH, checks, stablecoins). The role involves coaching analysts, strengthening judgment and documentation standards, building operating rhythms, and driving continuous improvement. A key aspect is advancing Brex's AI-native goals by identifying use cases and driving AI adoption within the team to improve speed, quality, and control. Requires experience in US banking operations, payments operations, or compliance operations within a regulated financial services environment, along with people management experience and practical fluency with AI tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team of Banking Operations analysts by setting priorities, coaching performance, and building a high-accountability culture grounded in sound judgment, accuracy, and strong documentation standards.
  2. Oversee payment monitoring across Fedwire, SWIFT, ACH, checks, and stablecoins, ensuring alerts, exceptions, and escalations are reviewed on time and resolved with clear, risk-based decisions.
  3. Build scalable operating frameworks for onboarding, quality assurance, escalation management, and coverage planning that improve consistency as the team and business grow.
  4. Advance Brex’s AI-native goals by identifying high-impact use cases, driving thoughtful AI adoption across the team, and partnering on tools and workflows that improve speed, quality, and control.
  5. Partner closely with Compliance, Legal, Product, Engineering, and external banking partners to strengthen controls, resolve issues quickly, and support operational readiness for new workflows and product changes.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in US banking operations, payments operations, compliance operations, or a related function within a bank, fintech, or other regulated financial services environment.
  • 2+ years of people management experience, with a track record of coaching employees, raising performance, and building strong, accountable teams.
  • Working knowledge of high-risk money movement workflows and payment rails such as wires, ACH, checks, SWIFT, or similar transaction monitoring and exception management environments.
  • Practical fluency with AI tools such as Claude, Hex, Granola, and Glean, with a strong point of view on where AI can improve team effectiveness, decision quality, and operational scale in a control-heavy environment.
  • Strong judgment, including the ability to assess risk, make sound escalation decisions, and maintain clear, audit-ready documentation.
  • Experience partnering cross-functionally with teams such as Compliance, Legal, Product, Engineering, Treasury, Finance, or external banking partners to resolve issues and improve processes.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn operational complexity into concise guidance, actionable feedback, and leadership-ready updates.
  • A builder mindset with strong operational discipline and the ability to improve workflows, strengthen procedures, and use data or automation to scale quality and efficiency.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native automation
  • AI-native goals
  • AI adoption
  • AI tools
  • US banking operations
  • payments operations
  • compliance operations
  • regulated financial services environment
  • money movement workflows
  • payment rails