Nium provides 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 March 2026, we delivered the largest month in our 11-year history with record revenue, record volumes, and EBITDA profitability. Today, Nium moves nearly $60B 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 as a principal card issuer on Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and UATP, Nium issues over 50 million card tokens every year. Backed by regulatory licenses in 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.
With a growing presence in Latin America, Nium Brazil is at the forefront of transforming how businesses and consumers transact in one of the world’s most dynamic fintech markets. Our Brazil operations are fully regulated and committed to delivering secure, compliant, and innovative payment experiences.
Role Overview
Nium Brazil is seeking a Cybersecurity Manager to own the organisation’s cybersecurity compliance obligations under Resolution BCB 85/2021 and act as the primary point of accountability for cyber risk in Brazil. Reporting to the Country Manager with a dotted reporting line to the Group CISO, this role sits at the intersection of local regulatory compliance and hands-on security operations in a fast-growing, regulated payment institution.
This is an opportunity for a cybersecurity professional to step into a high-impact, visible role with broad cross-functional exposure — shaping how Nium Brazil manages cyber risk as the business scales.
NOTE: When applying, please provide a CV in English.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure the Group’s cybersecurity policy remains fully aligned with BCB Resolution 85/2021 and any subsequent regulatory updates.
- Act as the designated local lead for all BCB cybersecurity obligations, coordinating with Group security teams to meet local requirements.
- Produce regular management reporting on the organisation’s cybersecurity posture, open risks, and any incidents.
- Track regulatory changes to cybersecurity requirements and lead the assessment and implementation of any operational or process impacts.
- Enforce local access controls across critical systems, ensuring user permissions are regularly reviewed and appropriately restricted.
- Oversee identity and access management for Brazil-based users and systems, working with Group IT to align with global standards.
- Manage privileged access reviews and ensure segregation of duties is maintained across key operational functions.
- Act as first responder to local cybersecurity incidents — logging, triaging, escalating, and reporting within required regulatory timeframes.
- Maintain and regularly test Brazil’s incident response and business continuity procedures in line with BCB guidance.
- Coordinate vulnerability assessments and penetration testing programmes with the Group technology team, tracking remediation to closure.
- Monitor threat intelligence relevant to the Brazilian payments landscape and proactively brief senior leadership on emerging risks.
- Manage third-party and vendor cybersecurity risk, ensuring external partners and service providers meet Nium’s security standards and BCB requirements.
- Conduct or oversee cybersecurity due diligence for new vendor onboarding and periodic reviews of existing suppliers.
- Maintain a register of critical third-party relationships and their associated cyber risk profiles.
Regulatory Compliance & Governance
Access Controls & System Security
Incident Response & Threat Management
Third-Party & Vendor Risk
What We’re Looking For
- 3–5 years of experience in a cybersecurity, information security, or technology risk role within a regulated financial institution or payment institution.
- Demonstrable knowledge of BCB Resolution 85/2021 and related cybersecurity regulatory requirements in Brazil.
- Hands-on experience with incident response, access management, vulnerability management, and third-party risk.
- Experience operating as a first line of defence in a regulated environment.
- Fluency in Portuguese and English.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and controls relevant to financial services (e.g. ISO 27001, NIST).
- Ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical, operational controls.
- Confident working cross-functionally with technology, operations, legal, and product teams.
- Familiarity with LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados) obligations in a financial services context.
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving regulatory environment.
- A self-starter who can take ownership of obligations and drive them to resolution.
- A collaborative team player who can influence without authority.
- Strong communicator, able to present technical risk topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
Experience
Skills & Knowledge
Personal Attributes
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of experience in a cybersecurity role within a regulated institution
- Knowledge of BCB Resolution 85/2021
- Experience with incident response and access management
- Fluency in Portuguese and English
Nium Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nium and has not been reviewed or approved by Nium.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered market-competitive in certain tech and sales roles and higher‑paying geographies, with upside evident for specific functions and seniority. Signals of strong totals in U.S. engineering/product and top‑end sales support a generally favorable footing.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials and external listings describe comprehensive health coverage and 24×7 assistance support aligned with a modern fintech package. These elements are positioned as core parts of the global offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous parental leave, standard PTO, and a company‑wide year‑end shutdown expand time‑off support beyond basics. Public career materials and job ads consistently reference these components.
Nium Insights
What We Do
Nium is an advanced payments platform redefining the way consumers and businesses send, spend, and receive funds across borders. Nium’s goal is to make the movement of money seamless through being a universal plug for financial services. The company uses agile, elegant, and modular solutions for complex business problems. Be it an Individual, new-age digital bank, or a traditional industry behemoth, Nium prides itself on creating financial infrastructure for every level of sophistication. Nium’s key solutions: • Pay-ins • Pay-outs • Card issuance • Banking-as-a-service • Crypto-as-a-service We are a global leader in B2B modern money movement • Launched the world’s first global platform for crypto-as-a-service • $280M Funding • Series D • $2B Valuation o 130+M End customers o 190+ Payout markets o 100+ Supported currencies • Named on CB Insight’s Fintech 250 List • Financial Times’ List of Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies 2021 • Fintech Employer of the Year’ at the 2021 Singapore Fintech Festival • Best B2B Payment Platform’ at the 2021 Future Digital Awards
Why Work With Us
We, at Nium, are on a mission to transform modern money movement. We are driven by our co-created values of "seek the simple", "make it better" and "win it together". These aren't just buzzwords; they're how we do business every day and owned by each and every employee at Nium. We create new rules and new possibilities for a world of open money.
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