Cash App Hiring For Sr Brokerage Operations Risk Specialist at Portland, OR, United States Full Time

Job Description

Company Description

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic app, bringing a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our millions of monthly active users. With a mission to redefine the world’s relationship with money by making it more relatable, instantly available and universally accessible, at Cash App you’ll have the opportunity to make a real-world impact with your career.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees around the world with a culture geared toward creativity, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and continue to value working across time zones and continents both remotely and in our Cash App offices.

Our offices are great, but many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Block operates. We tailor our experience to champion our employees’ creativity and productivity wherever they are.

Check out our locations, benefits and more at cash.app/careers.

We’ve recently introduced Cash App Investing and now you can instantly buy stock in your favorite companies with as little as $1 using our free fractional trading feature! We’re looking for a world class contributor to join our broker-dealer subsidiary, Cash App Investing LLC. The ideal candidate for this role is someone who has deep experience with operational risk for a carrying broker dealer.
You Will:

• Continuously implementing best practices and mitigating risk for Cash App Investing.
• Tracking and ing new Cash App and Cash App Investing initiatives and assessing risk for Cash App Investing.
• Collaborates with other Risk and Fraud stakeholders at Cash App Investing and Cash App to track progress, receive and provide feedback.
• Manage and track firm exception s while improving procedures to account for efficiency.
• Identify areas for process improvement and work toward implementation with respective teams.
• Establish high level workflows for leadership and work with stakeholders to highlight risk opportunities.
• Updates Cash App Investing Risk procedures and policy in accordance with material changes.
• Partners with the Compliance and Legal team to implement new rules and regulations to operational processes.
• Covers daily functions as needed to monitor and actions accounts in accordance with firm policy and procedure.
• Collaborates with lead, compliance, and risk teams to identify risks and opportunities under the scope of the risk and fraud mitigation area.
• Provide subject matter expertise on strategic initiatives related to risk functions for the broker-dealer
• High-level understanding of SEC / FINRA regulations that pertain to the subject matter.
• Collaborates with technical, support, and product teams to facilitate improvements and increase efficiency within the current back office structure for the broker-dealer’s risk operation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of brokerage experience with a focus on risk and fraud operations.
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  FINRA Licenses: Series 7 & 63 required. Bonus: Series 24
• Experience with Looker / Tableau or other data analytics tools required.
• Knowledge and respect for SEC/FINRA regulatory and compliance rules and regulations.
• Well experienced in working closely with a broker dealer’s back office team in risk operations.
• Someone who thrives in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Team player who can receive and provide feedback to peers and leaders.
• A passion for our mission of economic empowerment through serving the underserved

Additional Information

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.
Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.