Top Finance Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Senior second-line-of-defense risk leader responsible for oversight of international product, market expansion, and retail consumer lending. Establishes scalable governance, new-product approvals, country-level risk frameworks, and post-launch monitoring while partnering with Legal, Compliance, Finance, and regional stakeholders to ensure alignment with risk appetite and regulatory expectations.

Conducts independent AML and fraud investigations involving retail banking and cryptocurrency assets. Performs on-chain transaction tracing, assesses source and destination of funds, evaluates sanctions and typology risks, documents case findings, and determines whether Suspicious Activity Reports should be filed. The role also supports detection improvements, process development, training documentation, and ad hoc investigations while maintaining compliance with BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC, and AML regulations.

Processes and balances U.S. payrolls, including regular and off-cycle payments, wages, deductions, bonuses, and manual checks. Reconciles payroll reports, validates timekeeping data, resolves employee inquiries, and ensures compliance with federal and state regulations. Supports audits, maintains payroll procedures and internal controls, addresses SOX requirements, identifies process improvements, and collaborates with Finance and HR on payroll operations and special projects.

Provides second-line sanctions compliance advisory services across a financial enterprise, including cryptocurrency and global sanctions programs. Oversees sanctions risk analyses, investigations, screening controls, policies, governance, regulatory monitoring, product assessments, audits, and examinations. Advises compliance, risk, product, engineering, and business teams on complex sanctions matters and supports the tuning and optimization of payment and name-screening models.

The Staff Credit Policy Analyst leads credit policy design and governance for home loans, collaborating across departments to ensure compliance and enhance operational efficiency.

Leads SoFi’s enterprise sanctions compliance program across business lines and jurisdictions. Advises compliance, product, engineering, and business leaders on sanctions risks, policies, controls, risk assessments, regulatory developments, and high-risk transactions. Supports regulatory exams, audits, third-party reviews, and product lifecycle compliance while strengthening governance and mitigating global sanctions exposure.

Leads the Financial Intelligence Unit team investigating AML and fraud alerts involving fiat currency, cryptocurrency, stablecoins, and DeFi. Oversees suspicious activity investigations, SAR filings, quality reviews, coaching, and risk-based customer termination decisions. Enhances transaction monitoring, blockchain analytics, wallet-screening procedures, and investigator training. Partners with AML, sanctions, fraud, legal, product, engineering, and compliance teams to address emerging digital-asset risks and strengthen financial-crime controls.

Leads complex, high-risk AML and financial-crime investigations across the enterprise. Oversees investigation intake, triage, execution, escalation, SAR support, regulatory inquiries, and remediation. Identifies emerging typologies and control gaps while partnering with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Product, Data, Engineering, Sanctions, Fraud, and Cryptocurrency teams. Develops investigative procedures and quality standards, supports audits and regulatory examinations, and provides subject-matter expertise on money laundering, sanctions, fraud, terrorist financing, beneficial ownership, and related risks.

Lead tax information reporting and withholding compliance across U.S. and international frameworks. Advise product and business teams, especially on digital asset reporting; oversee tax documentation, withholding, remittance, annual filings, audits, controls, and regulatory updates. Translate tax requirements into business requirements for technology teams, optimize tax systems and workflows, and manage cross-functional risk remediation and employee training.

Lead second-line credit risk oversight across unsecured, secured, and commercial lending. Perform credit and behavioral analytics, monitor roll rates and delinquencies, build visualizations, assess policy effectiveness, and provide recommendations to mature risk frameworks and regulatory readiness.