Compliance Manager

Float

Float

Legal, Sales & Business Development
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Jan 12, 2025

About Float

Float is on a mission to simplify finance for Canadian businesses, empowering them to eliminate complexity and unlock new opportunities. Through our innovative platform, Float enables businesses to streamline spending and optimize cash flow, so they can focus on what matters most: growth. As one of Canada’s fastest growing companies and top-rated startups in 2024 and 2023, Float is customer-obsessed, passionate, and entrepreneurial, with a team that includes leaders from Uber, Shopify, Top Hat, Ritual, Ada, and more.

At Float, everyone is an owner, bringing their unique perspective to our team and product. Your voice is important, and we take having a culture based on feedback seriously. We openly share our thoughts and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision-making decentralized so that all team members feel ownership in our success.

Our product

Float is Canada’s first finance platform designed to empower businesses with fast, flexible, and accessible financial solutions. Our integrated suite of products—including corporate cards, bill pay, reimbursements, and financial services—rethinks how companies access capital, streamline spending, and manage growth. Backed by world-class investors like Tiger Global, Golden Ventures, and Susa Ventures, we’re disrupting the global B2B finance space—and we’re looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance.

About the Compliance Manager role

We’re looking for an exceptionally resourceful, innovative, and entrepreneurial Compliance Manager to join Float—a team that’s building the modern financial platform for Canadian businesses. As a Canadian Money Services Business fintech with an exciting growth trajectory, compliance is at the core of what we do, and this role is a unique opportunity to shape how we scale responsibly, efficiently, and sustainably.

In this role, you’ll take ownership of further building and refining Float’s compliance program, blending regulatory rigor with innovative solutions that don’t slow us down. You’ll work across teams to embed compliance into everything we do, showing strong collaboration with the rest of Float and our partners so that compliance is a strategic advantage and source of trust for our customers and company. If you’re energized by the idea of tackling complex regulatory challenges while driving meaningful business impact, this role is for you.

As the Compliance Manager at Float:

  • You’ll work closely with our Senior Director, Risk & Compliance and cross-functional partners to ensure a best-in-class compliance program that is a strategic enabler of growth and innovation.
  • Help enhance the design and implementation of Float’s compliance framework, ensuring we stay ahead of regulatory and compliance requirements while supporting our rapid scaling.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations to embed seamless compliance processes into our platform, reducing customer friction while maintaining robust controls.
  • Anticipate and navigate cross-border compliance considerations as Float grows its product and customer footprint.
  • Build and influence a culture of compliance, moving beyond the "checkbox" approach to create a program that accelerates Float’s vision to be the modern financial institution in Canada.