Senior Compliance Specalist in Kennington

Job-ID: ac7a2eff-0b54-434b-be33-ec9adc1b247aLocation: LondonSalary: 71559
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- 80147 GBPType: Full timePosted: Contact: , briefly At Klarna, we’re building an everyday finance network, helping over 120 million consumers across 26 countries save time and money, and worry less about their finances.
Working here means taking on problems most companies never get to solve, and being hands-on enough that the interesting part of the work lands with you, not someone else — you’ll build with AI, not watch it happen.
This is the stretch zone.
Come find out what you’re capable of.
About the role Klarna’s payments and consumer credit business is regulated under PSD2, the Consumer Credit Directive, outsourcing and third-party oversight requirements, AML/CFT rules, and GDPR.
Someone has to check, independently of the business, that the controls Klarna relies on to meet those requirements work in practice and not just on paper.
In this position, that’s you.
You’ll sit in the Compliance Testing Team, part of Klarna’s second line of defense, and act as the team’s EU regulatory subject matter expert.
When a testing question turns on what a directive or EBA guideline requires, colleagues will look to you for the answer.
The team tests with data and automation as much as with interviews and documents.
You’ll work in a setting where analysing a full data population is the expectation, and sampling by hand is the fallback.
What you’ll do You’ll own each test from start to finish: scoping it, drafting the testing script, running stakeholder interviews and fieldwork, reporting the results, and following up on findings.
You’ll assess both the design and the operating effectiveness of controls against EU requirements, EBA and other European Supervisory Authority guidance, and Klarna’s internal governing documents.
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