We are looking for a strong Financial Crime Compliance all‑rounder who can apply their subject matter expertise to a partnership with Product teams as we build on our product landscape here at Checkout.
Sitting in our Product Compliance function, this is an exciting team who support new product launches and expansion of existing products to new markets in line with financial crime requirements.
You’ll be leading on product risk assessment and coordination of implementation through a financial crime compliance lens. The successful candidate must deeply understand AML/CTF and work closely with analytics, engineering, compliance, operations, and commercial teams.
This role has global scope out of the UK and is an opportunity to join as we continue to scale.
How You'll Make An Impact
- Own the end‑to‑end execution of inherent and residual risk assessments for new initiatives and existing products, identifying financial crime vulnerabilities and validating control effectiveness against the global risk appetite
- Take ownership of your product’s lifecycle stages, including timely product risk assessment, effective communication, defining and documenting controls requirements, approvals and record keeping etc
- Build strong partnerships with business, product, and technology stakeholders
- Work with other product and engineering leaders to ensure alignment with their roadmaps and delivery
- Gain a deep understanding of Checkout.com ’s customers and business
- Foster a team culture that upholds Checkout.com’ s operating principles
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in product compliance/product risk assessment/product advisory within financial crime compliance
- experience working in the payments sector: acquiring/issuing/payouts
- good knowledge of PSRs, MLRs, PSD2 etc and ability to interpret regulations, assess the impact on new product implementation and collate AML/CTF controls requirements
- ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders across different levels and functions within Product, Engineering, Operations, Compliance Advisory etc
