Top Finance Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Lead second-line-of-defense risk oversight for international product, business, and market expansion activities. Establish scalable governance frameworks, manage new product approvals, ensure alignment with risk appetite and multi-jurisdictional regulatory expectations, partner with cross-functional stakeholders, and support post-launch monitoring and regulatory interactions.

Conducts independent AML and fraud investigations involving retail banking, brokerage, cryptocurrency, and virtual assets. Performs on-chain transaction tracing, evaluates sanctions and money-laundering risks, determines whether activity warrants Suspicious Activity Report filing, and documents case findings. Supports detection improvements, process enhancements, training, and ad hoc investigations while maintaining knowledge of BSA/AML, USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC, and virtual-asset regulations.

Processes regular and off-cycle U.S. payroll, calculates wages and deductions, reconciles payroll reports, validates timekeeping data, resolves employee inquiries, supports audits, maintains compliance with payroll regulations and SOX controls, documents procedures, and recommends process improvements.

The Sanctions Advisor provides second-line compliance oversight across the enterprise, advising on global sanctions risks including OFAC, UN, EU, UK, and cryptocurrency-related matters. Responsibilities include investigations, risk analysis, screening control tuning, policy development, regulatory monitoring, product assessments, governance reporting, and support for audits and examinations. The role partners with AML leadership, Compliance, Risk, product managers, engineers, and business units to maintain effective sanctions controls and provide guidance on complex transactions and emerging regulatory requirements.

The Staff Credit Policy Analyst leads the development and governance of credit policies for home loans, ensuring compliance and operational efficiency while collaborating with leadership and cross-functional teams.

Lead SoFi’s enterprise sanctions compliance program across business lines and jurisdictions. Advise compliance, product, engineering, and business leaders on global sanctions risks; develop policies, controls, risk appetites, and governance; support risk assessments, regulatory exams, audits, and third-party reviews; monitor regulatory developments; and guide high-risk transactions, market expansions, mergers, and product updates.

Leads the AML Financial Intelligence Unit for fiat and digital assets, managing investigators and overseeing suspicious activity investigations, SAR filings, quality reviews, and customer termination decisions. Designs and enhances transaction monitoring, blockchain analytics, and wallet-screening programs. Provides expertise on cryptocurrency, stablecoin, DeFi, sanctions, mixers, ransomware, and cross-chain risks while developing procedures, training, and strategic control improvements. Partners with Compliance, Legal, Fraud, Product, and Engineering teams and advises senior management on emerging financial-crime risks.

The posting provides no specific responsibilities or qualification details for the Director of Special Investigations role. The position appears to be associated with financial investigations within a Financial Intelligence Unit at a national financial services company.

Lead tax information reporting and withholding compliance across domestic and international frameworks, including FATCA, CRS, CARF, DAC7, and U.S. tax rules. Advise product teams on digital asset reporting, oversee tax documentation, withholding, remittance, and annual filings, and partner with technology and operations teams on automated workflows. Lead audits, risk remediation, policy updates, regulatory monitoring, and business requirements development for tax systems.