About Nium
Nium is the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments. We were founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. Our platform enables banks, fintechs, and global businesses to move money instantly, everywhere.
Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore with offices in 14 markets worldwide, we are entering one of the most exciting chapters in our journey. In July 2025, we delivered the largest month in our 10-year history with record revenue, record volumes, and EBITDA profitability. Today, Nium moves nearly $50B in payments annually, almost entirely for enterprises, while continuing to strengthen an already healthy balance sheet.
It is an incredible time to join us, and we are only just getting started.
Our payout network spans 190+ countries and 100 currencies, with 100 corridors in real time. We power seamless transfers to accounts, wallets, and cards, support local collections in 35 markets, and run a card issuance business live in 34 countries. Backed by regulatory licenses in more than 40 markets, we make it simple for our partners to onboard, integrate, and scale globally. This scale and innovation have earned us recognition as one of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025, winner of Best Cross-Border Payments Solution at the PayTech Awards, and inclusion in FXC Intelligence’s Top 100 Cross-Border Payments Companies list.
In 2024, we raised US$50 million in Series E funding at a US$1.4 billion valuation to accelerate network expansion, product innovation, and talent growth. With the B2B payments market projected to hit US$175 trillion by 2030, Nium offers ambitious builders the chance to shape the future of global money movement with the scale of a leader and the energy of a high-growth company.
About the Role
As the Head of Analytics and Portfolio Intelligence, Risk & Compliance, you will be working as part of Nium’s global, dynamic compliance team. This role is responsible for shaping how risk and compliance analytics, observability, and insight are designed, governed, and embedded into decision-making, beyond just meeting our reporting requirements internally and externally.
Purpose of the Role
• Move the organization from reactive risk reporting to proactive, explainable risk intelligence.
• Strengthen regulatory confidence through transparent, auditable, and decision-oriented analytics.
• Establish a sustainable operating model for risk and compliance intelligence that scales with the business.
Key Responsibilities
Risk & Compliance Intelligence Strategy
- Define the risk and compliance intelligence strategy, aligned to regulatory expectations and business growth.
- Translate complex regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements into clear analytics priorities, KRIs, and leadership insights.
- Set standards for how risk information is produced, interpreted, and consumed across the organization.
Observability & Insight Design
- Design observability frameworks for risk and compliance processes, including:
- data lineage and traceability,
- explainability of risk decisions,
- visibility into control effectiveness.
- Identify structural gaps in monitoring, escalation, and risk signal quality.
- Ensure insights support decision-making, not just reporting.
Governance, Influence & Stakeholder Leadership
- Act as a senior partner to Risk, Compliance, Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations teams.
- Lead governance discussions to prioritize risk initiatives and resolve trade-offs.
- Influence senior stakeholders without direct authority, using data, judgment, and regulatory context.
Regulatory & Control Enablement
- Strengthen regulatory readiness through analytics that are transparent, auditable, and explainable.
- Support regulatory engagements, audits, and internal reviews with data-driven narratives.
- Enhance consistency and traceability of risk decisions across the payments lifecycle.
Capability & Operating Model Development
- Define the target operating model for Risk & Compliance Intelligence.
- Assess tooling, data, and resourcing needs over time and build cases for investment.
- Coach and mentor analysts and partner teams as the capability evolves.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Data Science, Business, or a related field.
- At least 8 years’ experience in risk management, compliance, or audit roles.
- Good understanding of the Payments/Fintech industry.
- Strong ability to analyze complex data sets, interpret trends, and draw actionable conclusions.
- Proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) is a plus.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks.
- Ability to communicate technical findings to non-technical stakeholders clearly and concisely.
- Exceptional attention to detail to ensure accuracy in regulatory reporting.
- A self-motivator with the ability to get things done.
- Able to prioritise quickly and meet deadlines under pressure.
- Team player with strong collaborative qualities.
What we offer at Nium
We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.
We Care: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).
We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend.
We Constantly Innovate: Since our inception, Nium has received constant recognition and awards for how we approach both our business and talent opportunities. Check out CNBC World’s Top Fintech Companies 2024.
We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!
We Thrive With Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.
Nium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Nium complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Nium expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
