Checkout.com
Manager, Compliance Advisory
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Senior Manager – Global Compliance & Financial Crime Specialist
About Checkout.com
We’re Checkout.com. Our name might be less familiar than the companies we work with—eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony—because we power the digital experiences they rely on daily.
Our platform enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. Whether you’re booking a holiday, ordering food, renewing a subscription, or checking out online, our technology often handles the payments behind the scenes. We help ambitious businesses deliver scalable, seamless digital experiences.
Our global mission is simple: to shape the future of fintech. With 20 offices across six continents, London as our headquarters, we move fast, think globally, and build exceptional teams—by hiring people with conviction, curiosity, and a drive to make an impact.
The Opportunity
We’re seeking an experienced leader with deep expertise in financial crime compliance to establish, grow, and maintain a global second-line team. This role will oversee the compliance frameworks for our rapidly expanding mass-market product portfolio.
This is your chance to leverage the momentum and resources of a global scale-up while scaling high-velocity products across multiple regions.
Key Responsibilities
Framework & Governance
- Establish a global second-line escalation framework for new products, aligning closely with regional MLROs to ensure consistency and operational excellence.
- Design and implement comprehensive financial crime controls, with a focus on automated, scalable detection and mitigation.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Risk, Operations, and Product teams to align compliance requirements with fraud risk mitigation and user experience (UX) goals.
- Collaborate with Regulatory Compliance to embed compliance by design early in the product development lifecycle.
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Strategy & Intelligence
- Proactively monitor emerging financial crime trends, regulatory guidance, and industry shifts to strengthen our control frameworks and knowledge base.
- Provide strategic advisory to Product and Operations teams, assessing AI deployment, automation, and system scale against compliance and risk (doing so confidently and AI-first).
Training & Assurance
- Develop and deliver targeted compliance training on high-volume financial crime and fraud risks, tailored for business and compliance teams.
- Work with Assurance and Internal Controls to design and execute robust monitoring processes for new product lines.
Risk & Compliance Ownership
- Carve and evolve global compliance standards for SDD (Suspected Doubts – likely suspension checks), CDD (Customer Due Diligence), and EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence), mapped to evolved product sets.
- Collaborate with regional MLROs to ensure product-specific risk profiles are accurately captured in Business-Wide Risk Assessments.
Experience & Skills We’re Looking For
Essential Qualifications
- 6+ years of second-line financial crime/compliance experience, preferably in fintech, payments, or big-bank scale (neobank/fintech experience strongly preferred).
- Deep expertise in financial crime risks (AML/CFT/Sanctions/Fraud) with a regulatory compliance track record.
- Experience growing and leading teams, including cross-border or global management roles.
- Proven ability to architect frameworks for high-volume environments and work directly with technical/product stakeholders to design scalable solutions.
Must-Have Personal Qualities
- Confident decision-maker: Ability to assess risks, weigh mitigations, and craft clear, defensible strategies.
- Technical fluency: Comfort collaborating directly with engineering and product leaders to understand systems, user journeys, and tooling.
- AI-first mindset: Hands-on experience (or an eagerness to spearhead) automation or AI tools to accelerate compliance at scale.
- Strategic Thinker: Balance fine details with big-picture organisational goals.
- Growth-oriented: Relentless curiosity, self- and team-development, and a passion for spotting new opportunities.
- Proportionate & collaborative: An ability to strike the perfect balance between stringent compliance and seamless scalability, communicating effectively across levels.
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At Checkout.com, we create high-performing workplaces where every professional can thrive:
- Real ownership, fewer roadblocks, immediate impact—your work matters from day one.
- Fast-paced environment: Take on bold challenges and meet objectives, achieve recognition for delivering results.
- Ambition meets opportunity: Your growth is in your own hands; we equip everyone with tools, trust, and growth journeys.
Diversity & Inclusion: We believe success comes from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. If you need accommodations to make your application or working experience more comfortable, please let us know.
Life at Checkout.com
Work is just one part of who you are, which is why we offer:
- A flexible hybrid model: Three days per week in-office to fuel collaboration and connection, with the rest of the freedom reserved for your lifestyle.
- Careers & Culture: Tiger eager to learn more? Explore our Careers Page for a closer look at our mission, open opportunities, and our team dynamics.
- Stay Curious: Follow us on [LinkedIn (@Checkout)] and [Instagram (@Checkout_com)] for a peek into day-to-day operations, life in our global communities, and the vision that drives us.
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