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title: 'Head of Finance at Flagright'
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# Head of Finance at Flagright

- **Company:** Flagright
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/flagright.com/531c7c13-4e98-4a0a-b668-56e4457f5810

## Job description

About Flagright: Flagright is an AI operating system for financial crime compliance used globally by Fortune 500 companies, large banks, fintechs, and fast growing startups. Flagright enables real-time risk detection, automated investigations, and intelligent decisioning, helping compliance teams operate at their full potential in the fight against financial crime. We operate as a lean, high-performance team with high individual ownership and direct access to leadership. Role overview: The Head of Finance will take ownership for Flagright's financial operations globally, spanning our offices in the US, UK, India, and Singapore. This is a hands-on, operational role for an individual with strong finance expertise who thrives in high-growth environments and is excited to take on significant responsibilities while building and optimizing processes to support rapid scaling. People who thrive at Flagright:

- Have been knocked down before and gotten back up
- Are resourceful — figure it out with whatever tools exist
- Have strong opinions, defend them, and drop them when proven wrong
- Would rather own targets than a task list
- Run toward ambiguity, not away from it
- Want to work with no-BS people

People who struggle here:

- Confuse ambitious goals with unreasonable ones
- Want 9-to-6 and a predictable week
- Need priorities to hold still for a quarter
- Take blunt feedback or lost deals personally
- Say — or think — “that’s not my job”

Key responsibilities:

- Prepare and manage investor updates, Board meetings, and monthly consolidated management accounts spanning 4 entities across US / UK / India / Singapore
- Lead financial planning and analysis (FP&A), including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Develop and maintain detailed financial models to support strategic decision-making and operational planning
- Oversee accounts payable and enforce accounts receivable processes to maintain smooth cash flow operations
- Collaborate with external accountants and tax experts to optimize accounting and tax strategies, ensuring compliance and efficiency
- Implement inter-company pricing measures, including managing transfer pricing documentation and compliance
- Oversee external auditors for a yearly audit across 4 global entities
- Contribute to pricing and deal desk operations

Who we are looking for:

- Based in the Bay Area with the right to work in the USA (no visa sponsorship available), this is a fully in-person role at our Santa Clara office
- 5+ years of professional experience, with a solid background in Finance in a high-growth environment
- Must have hands-on FP&A or Strategic Finance experience, including budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, variance analysis, and leadership reporting, gained in roles such as FP&A Analyst, FP&A Manager, Head of FP&A, or Strategic Finance Lead
- Must have prior experience in a SaaS start-up environment (Series A to C)
- Hands-on experience with fundraising and/or acquisition processes required
- Experience operating across multiple entities, jurisdictions, currencies, and time zones, with an understanding of cross-border finance and multi-entity accounting, as well as HR, legal, tax, and compliance considerations
- Strong working knowledge of SaaS business models, including ARR, retention, gross margin, CAC/payback, burn, runway, cash forecasting, and investor-facing operating metrics
- Comfortable being both strategic and hands-on: able to advise leadership while also diving into models, contracts, payroll issues, vendor workflows, and operational details when needed
- Proven people-management experience, ideally managing distributed or offshore teams, with high standards for ownership, responsiveness, and execution - note that the team reporting to this role is based in the Philippines

What we offer:

- Housing subsidy for those living within 1 mile of the office
- Leadership position with direct impact on how Flagright runs and grows globally
- High-bar environment focused on execution, learning, and continuous improvement
- Equity from day 1 at a Y Combinator startup
- Work alongside a highly competent, top-tier team, including professionals from Y Combinator, ex AWS, and Palantir
- Enjoy a low-bureaucracy environment, minimal meetings, and an asynchronous communications culture

## About Flagright

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Flagright provides an AI-native operating system for financial crime compliance, unifying transaction monitoring, watchlist screening, investigations, and regulatory filing for financial institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Baran Ozkan (Co-founder & CEO), Madhu G. Nadig (Co-founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Crime Compliance / RegTech
- **Target customers**: Fintechs, digital banks, neobanks, traditional banks, payment processors, brokerages, crypto and stablecoin firms, and remittance companies (B2B, primarily mid-market to enterprise)
- **Mission/purpose**: Rebuilding financial crime compliance infrastructure from the inside out to give time back for human judgment, replacing fragmented legacy systems with a unified, intelligent platform.

## Products & Services
- **Transaction Monitoring**: A real-time and batch monitoring engine that processes millions of transactions daily. Features a no-code scenario builder, rule simulation, and the ability to build sophisticated rules using natural language (AI Rule Builder).
- **Watchlist Screening**: Global sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening with fully configurable fuzzy matching algorithms. Supports real-time and batch screening.
- **Case Management**: Centralized investigation workflows that unify alerts, data points, and actions. Features automated case narrative generation and full audit trails.
- **Dynamic Risk Scoring**: Continuously reassesses customer risk based on transaction activity, KYC data, and CRA signals, updating risk profiles in real time.
- **Regulatory Filing**: Automates SAR/STR generation and filing to FinCEN and 70+ GoAML countries. Generates audit documentation automatically.
- **AI Agents**: Explainable AI agents that can be deployed in 20 minutes (self-serve) to automate SOPs, alert triage, and investigation workflows, with human-in-the-loop controls.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Raised a **$12.5M Series A** in late June 2025 (led by Frontline Ventures). Total funding is **$7.6M** (including a $4.3M Seed round from Frontline Ventures and Moonfire Ventures). [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/flagright), [flagright.com](https://www.flagright.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Frontline Ventures (lead), Moonfire Ventures. Y Combinator (W22 batch). [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flagright)
- **Growth Signals**: 37 employees (+33.3% YoY), operates in 11 countries, trusted by 100+ financial institutions across 35+ countries. Reports 93% false positive reduction and 80% lower compliance costs for clients. Active job postings have grown +920% YoY. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/flagright)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Native & Explainable**: Unlike legacy vendors, Flagright’s AI agents are built for explainability and auditability, not black-box decisions. This is critical for regulated industries.
- **Unified Platform**: Combines transaction monitoring, screening, case management, risk scoring, and regulatory filing into one system, eliminating the need for fragmented vendor stacks.
- **Speed of Deployment**: Can deploy in as little as two weeks, significantly faster than incumbent solutions.
- **Global Compliance Coverage**: Multi-jurisdiction templates aligned with FinCEN, FCA, MAS, and 35+ global regulatory frameworks, making it a one-stop shop for cross-border operations.
- **Founder-Market Fit**: Built by founders who experienced the pain of evaluating compliance vendors firsthand, leading to a product designed by operators for operators.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product-Led Growth**: Focus on self-serve AI agent deployment and no-code rule builders to empower compliance teams directly.
- **Global Expansion**: Continued expansion into new jurisdictions and regulatory frameworks, with a strong presence already in the US, UK, India, Singapore, and South Africa.
- **AI-First Innovation**: Deepening the capabilities of its explainable AI agents to automate more complex compliance workflows while maintaining auditability.
- **Hiring for Scale**: Aggressively hiring across Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Operations in multiple global locations (San Francisco, New York, London, Singapore, India).

## Why Work Here
- **High-Growth Environment**: With a recent Series A and explosive job posting growth (+920% YoY), the company is in a rapid scaling phase, offering significant career acceleration opportunities.
- **Global & Remote-First Culture**: Team is distributed across 11 countries (US, UK, India, Singapore, Philippines, South Africa, etc.), offering a diverse and international work environment.
- **Meaningful Mission**: Tackling the critical problem of financial crime compliance, which has a direct societal impact.
- **Strong Engineering Culture**: Founded by a technical CTO (Madhu Nadig) and CEO (Baran Ozkan), with a focus on building intelligent, developer-friendly infrastructure. The company is a Y Combinator alum.
- **Open Roles**: Currently has 51+ active job postings across departments, including Senior Product Marketing Manager, Head of Partnerships, Strategic Product Operations Manager, Technical Content Lead, and roles in Engineering and Sales. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/flagright)

## Sources
1. [flagright.com](https://www.flagright.com/)
2. [flagright.com/about-us](https://www.flagright.com/about-us)
3. [linkedin.com/company/flagright](https://www.linkedin.com/company/flagright)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/flagright)
5. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flagright)

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