What are the responsibilities and job description for the Fintech Banking Specialist position at Cross River Bank?
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Fintech Banking Specialist to join our team at Cross River Bank. In this client-facing role, you will be responsible for managing the onboarding process for new and existing clients in the fintech banking sector.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the technical and compliance onboarding process for new & existing clients, ensuring smooth integration with banking and financial services platforms.
- Gather required documentation and conduct due diligence checks, such as KYC (Know Your Customer), AML (Anti-Money Laundering), and regulatory compliance.
- Guide partners through account setup, API integration, and service activation.
- Liaise effectively with client-facing teams (product/engineering, legal/compliance/risk, accounting, and other teams); provide strategic guidance as needed around client documentation, AML and Risk standards/guidelines, or Bank standards.
- Be an owner and driver of process definition and improvement to streamline the partner onboarding journey.
- Demonstrate an ability to capture issues, escalate timely and effectively, manage scope and change requests, timelines, overall program performance.
Requirements:
- 4-7 years of hands-on solution architecture, data integration, partner delivery experience and working with compliance teams in a financial institution.
- Able to understand, visualize, and document the client's product construct and how they map to our internal data models used for processing cards, transactions, and loans.
- Experience managing projects with multiple requirements and agendas while maintaining holistic plans and driving to agreed upon schedule.
- Knowledge of financial services and the fintech ecosystem and desire to learn changing trends across, especially as it relates to legal, compliance, underwriting, and risk management.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing company that is reshaping global finance and financial inclusion. If you have strong research, writing, technical, payments/card network, and analytical skills, and a desire to leverage your knowledge of fintech and payments; this immediate opportunity might be a fit.
