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# Compliance Operations Associate - São Paulo (Hybrid) at Clara 

- **Company:** Clara 
- **Location:** Sao Paulo, Brazil
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clara/jobs/5265000007

## Job description

Clara is the leading platform in Latin America for companies to execute and manage every payment operation. More than 50,000 leading and fast-growing businesses run on our corporate cards, bill pay, financing and B2B payments, and in 2025 the Financial Times named Clara the region’s fastest-growing company. We’re passionate about helping every company we work with become more effective—and, through that, raising the region’s competitiveness. We’re ~400 people, backed by Notable Capital, Coatue, Kaszek, monashees, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs, among others.

## What you'll do

We are looking for a hands-on Compliance Operations Associate based in Brazil to join the Legal & Compliance team and report directly to the Head of Legal & Compliance. The role will support customer onboarding, ongoing reviews and the operational AML/CFT agenda across Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.

You will manage high-volume casework with sound judgment, clear evidence and reliable execution, while helping us improve controls, workflows and automation.

- Review onboarding, remediation and reassessment cases for customers in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.
- Analyze corporate documents, ownership structures, Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs), business models, expected activity and the consistency of customer information.
- Perform KYC/KYB and enhanced due diligence, including PEP, sanctions and adverse-media screening, and document the rationale for each conclusion.
- Execute ongoing transaction monitoring and review AML/CFT alerts from initial assessment through documented closure or escalation.
- Investigate unusual or potentially suspicious activity, request additional information, conduct enhanced reviews and escalate cases in line with internal governance.
- Support the full range of operational AML/CFT activities assigned to Compliance, including periodic and event-driven reviews, customer-risk classification, control execution, remediation and the preparation of internal or regulatory reporting inputs.
- Apply the KYC Manual, AML/CFT policies, risk criteria, checklists, SLAs and escalation rules consistently across cases.
- Maintain complete, accurate and auditable records of evidence, pending items, decisions, approvals and follow-up actions.
- Manage the Compliance pipeline by risk, priority and SLA, providing visibility into volumes, aging, backlogs and material exceptions.
- Escalate higher-risk cases, exceptions and matters requiring a risk decision to the appropriate Compliance leadership or governance forum.
- Work closely with Operations, Fraud, Risk, Credit, Product, Engineering and Data to resolve process gaps and strengthen preventive and detective controls.
- Support AML/CFT risk assessments, quality reviews, control testing, metrics, procedures, playbooks and training materials.
- Identify opportunities for responsible automation and contribute to requirements, testing, implementation and ongoing validation while preserving human review and auditability.

## Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Must Haves

- 2+ years of experience in Compliance Operations, KYC, KYB, AML/CFT, transaction monitoring or customer onboarding, ideally in a fintech, financial institution or payments company.
- Practical experience reviewing legal entities, UBOs, ownership structures, customer documentation and AML/CFT alerts.
- Working knowledge of customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, PEP and sanctions screening, adverse media and suspicious-activity escalation.
- Ability to manage high-volume queues, meet SLAs and maintain clear, complete and auditable case records.
- Sound judgment, attention to detail and the ability to apply policies consistently while recognizing when escalation is required.
- Strong ownership, organization and clear communication across multiple teams and countries.

Must Haves

- Experience with AML/CFT requirements or Compliance operations in Brazil, Mexico or Colombia.
- Experience using case-management, screening or transaction-monitoring tools.
- Experience supporting regulatory reporting, audits, control testing or remediation plans.
- Spanish proficiency.
- Experience or strong interest in workflow automation, data analysis or the responsible use of AI in Compliance operations.

Where we work

This is a hybrid role: you'll split your time between the office, customers and home. We don't set a minimum number of office days for most roles — you'll spend time in the office naturally, and most days during your ramp-up or when your leader asks.

## Why Clara

- A high talent-density team driven to make an impact in Latin America — low ego, high ownership.
- Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one.
- An annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.
- English is our working language, with Spanish and Portuguese every day.

## How we work

- Clarity — Open and direct communication: we say what we mean and give context where it matters.
- Simplicity — If it can be simpler, it should be.
- Ownership — We own everything we do, end to end. When something needs to happen, we don't wait.
- Pride — We hold ourselves to a high standard, and it shows in what we deliver.
- ABC (Always Be Changing) — We adapt fast, embrace change, and keep learning.
- Inclusivity — Diverse ideas, stories and perspectives build a better Clara.

If you meet the must-haves, apply — the nice-to-haves are a bonus, not a requirement.

## About Clara 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clara is the leading corporate payments and spend management platform in Latin America, providing companies with corporate cards, bill payments, cross-border transfers, and AI-powered expense management.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Debt-II stage; total funding of $770M)
- **Headquarters**: São Paulo, Brazil (Rua Doutor Renato Paes de Barros, 33, Itaim Bibi)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Fintech / Corporate Payments & Spend Management
- **Target customers**: B2B; mid-market to enterprise companies across Latin America (30,000+ companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia)
- **Mission or purpose**: To build world-class financial infrastructure for Latin America, enabling businesses to scale without borders.

## Products & Services
- **Corporate Credit Cards**: Global and local cards with customizable limits, controls, and real-time oversight for team spending.
- **Bill Pay & Cross-Border Payments**: Automated vendor payments and cross-border transfers.
- **Expense Management Platform**: AI-powered expense reporting, approvals, compliance, and receipt matching (Smart Match).
- **TravelPay**: Virtual cards and tracking for all travel-related payments, preventing unauthorized charges.
- **Reimbursements**: Fast, automated reimbursement flows for out-of-pocket spend.
- **Clara Intelligence™**: Real-time analytics and AI-driven insights that centralize and analyze all company spend.
- **Integrations**: Direct integrations with leading ERPs (Oracle NetSuite, SAP Concur, Zoho Expense, ARGO Solutions).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $770M (including debt); most recent round was Debt-II raised 5 months ago (as of mid-2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: monashees, Kaszek, Canary, Notable Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, ICONIQ Growth, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, SV Angel, Citius, Endeavor Catalyst, Goldman Sachs
- **Growth Signals**: Named LatAm’s fastest-growing company by the Financial Times in both 2025 and 2026; serves 30,000+ companies across Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil; raised $80M in sales growth funding (per Bloomberg); expanding Brazil operations "quickly" (per Reuters)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Regional focus**: Purpose-built for Latin America, solving local pain points (cross-border payments, local card issuance, tax optimization) that global competitors often miss.
- **AI-powered platform**: Clara Intelligence™ provides real-time spend analytics and automated receipt matching, saving customers an average of 4.6M hours of work and +30% in tax deductions.
- **Scale & trust**: Trusted by 30,000+ industry leaders; named LatAm’s fastest-growing company by the Financial Times (2025, 2026).
- **Enterprise-grade security**: ISO 27001 and PCI DSS 4.0 certified.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Deepening presence in Brazil (growing "quickly" per Reuters) and scaling across Mexico and Colombia.
- **Product breadth**: Continuing to build an all-in-one financial OS for LatAm businesses, including bill pay, cross-border payments, and AI-powered spend intelligence.
- **Capital markets**: Recently raised $80M for sales growth (per Bloomberg) and additional debt financing to fuel expansion.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a place where people are "smart, own their work, and care deeply about the mission, and about each other." Values include Ownership, Simplicity, Pride, Clarity, Inclusivity, and "ABC (Always Be Changing)."
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Remote-first flexibility; some roles (e.g., Finance Analyst in São Paulo) are hybrid.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, equity, health coverage, remote-first flexibility, learning and development budget, home office stipend, parental leave, and flexible PTO.
- **Engineering culture**: High ownership from day one; work reaches 30,000+ companies across a region of 650 million people. Teams include Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Product, Operations, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Happiness.
- **Growth opportunity**: Named LatAm’s fastest-growing company; employees get to "do the best work of their lives" at massive scale.

## Sources
1. [clara.com](https://www.clara.com/)
2. [clara.com/careers](https://www.clara.com/resources/careers)
3. [Greenhouse Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clara)
4. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/clara-2)

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