Bilingual Operations Associate, Risk

Toronto, Canada

Remote

Full-time

$60k to $80k/yr CAD

Posted Oct 8, 2026

This posting reflects a current, actively recruited opening at Float. All applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis.

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 financial operations 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 2025, 2024 and 2023, Float is customer-obsessed, passionate and entrepreneurial, with a team that includes leaders from Uber, Stripe, Shopify, Top Hat, Ada, Doordash, Snowflake, and Wealthsimple.

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 intelligent financial operating system, combining modern financial services and software to help businesses spend, save, and grow. Trusted by more than 10,000 Canadian companies, Float provides high-limit corporate cards, automated expense management, next-day bill payments, high-yield accounts, and industry-leading support, all built in Canada, for Canada. Float recently announced our $85 million Series C, and is backed by world-class investors, including Inovia Capital, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, OMERS Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank.

Our team is a collection of ambitious, collaborative and mission-driven people from all walks of life but with one goal: helping Canadian companies not just survive but thrive. And we’re looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance in Canada.

AI Use in Our Hiring Process

We use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to support parts of our hiring process. This may include AI-assisted scheduling and candidate communications, and AI-generated interview notes, guides or summaries to help our team focus on the conversation. All hiring decisions are made by our hiring team.

About the Role

Float is looking for an outstanding Operations Associate to join the Approvals function of our Compliance & Risk team! This is an exciting opportunity to be an integral part of our customer journey in a non-traditional, fast-paced environment. This role manages initial communication with customers, and collects all required documentation to determine their compliance. You will act as one of the final decision-makers in approving new Float customers onto our platform. If you are super detail-oriented, can learn new things quickly, and enjoy solving complex problems, this could be the role for you!

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Customer Onboarding – Executing all aspects of our initial customer onboarding while maintaining swift service level agreements (SLA’s). This includes training, documentation, and owning onboarding materials such as user guides, videos, and product tutorials. You will ensure that each customer is provided with an efficient and successful onboarding process.

• Stakeholder Management – Working with our prospective customers to acquire the information and documentation necessary for onboarding and compliance verification, as well as communicating with external banking partners for further risk management.

• KYB/KYC Compliance – Processing prospective customers’ KYB + KYC applications to ensure they are compliant with Float’s services.

• Mitigate Float’s Internal Risk – Collaborate with other Float teams, such as Revenue, Customer Support, and the wider Risk team to ensure Float’s own compliance with industry regulations and service standards.

• Data and Reporting – Track and analyze core metrics related to the customer approvals function to empower data-driven process developments and improvements.

• Special Projects & more – As required to help work towards our company mission.

About You

Here’s what sets you up for success at Float:

• You Put Customers First, Always. You care deeply about delivering meaningful value. Whether you're building internal systems or customer-facing features, you're always thinking about how to make life better for our users.

• You Act Like an Owner. You take responsibility for outcomes, step up to challenges, and seek solutions proactively—doing what’s best for the business, not just your role.

• You Think Big and Move Fast. You’re energized by building from 0 to 1\. You’re not afraid to challenge the status quo, experiment quickly, and learn as you go.

• You Constantly Learn and Grow. You’re hungry to improve your craft and open to feedback. You bring a growth mindset to everything you do.

• You Raise the Bar. You care about doing things well and efficiently. You balance speed with rigor and always look for ways to improve how we work.

• You Win as a Team. You’re a generous collaborator who values communication, context, and shared wins. You lift others up and help make the team stronger.

In addition to our values…

• You’ve got the experience. We’re looking for at least one year of experience in an operations or customer-facing role in the financial services industry. Previous knowledge of and…