Simmons & Hanbury
Senior Risk & Compliance Manager - Fintech
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Our client is a global payments infrastructure provider. They are seeking a Senior Compliance professional to join their London-based team, offering the opportunity to take ownership of product compliance advisory and helping ensure the business remains compliant as it continues to scale internationally.
Key Responsibilities:
- Payments compliance: Ensure adherence to global card scheme rules, consumer protection laws and payments regulation (as applicable), supporting the firms Merchant of Record model across 245 territories.
- Compliance monitoring: Design and oversee simple tech-enabled monitoring programs to track compliance with internal policies and external regulations, using data-driven tools to identify trends and potential risks proactively.
- Policy & process development: Develop and refine compliance policies and procedures that scale with the firms growth, ensuring they support robust monitoring and reporting capabilities.
- Incident response: Lead investigations into high-risk complaints and/or compliance breaches, coordinating with legal and operational teams to resolve issues, and produce detailed incident reports for internal review and regulatory submission as needed.
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Ideal Background:
- 10+ years of compliance experience, ideally in payments and/or in fast-growing businesses, with a proven ability to implement and manage scalable monitoring and reporting systems.
- You have deep expertise in card scheme rules and payments regulation (e.g., PSD2, AML/KYC, PCI DSS) and hands-on experience in fintech or SaaS environments.
- You’ve worked in a high-growth scale-up, building compliance frameworks that emphasize real-time monitoring and detailed reporting to support rapid expansion.
- You’re analytical, with a knack for interpreting complex regulations and translating them into product features and business practices.
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About Simmons & Hanbury:
Simmons & Hanbury is a specialist executive search firm that sources and secures the best human capital and future leaders for our clients. We provide an integrated international service to support our clients across the globe, from our group headquarters based in the heart of the City of London. We support some of the most prestigious organisation's in the world, across financial services, commerce & industry, and professional services.
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