My client is a growth-stage fintech that finances and equips mobile gaming and consumer app companies. They support with user-acquisition financing, cohort intelligence, AI marketing copilots, payments and banking. They ensure their clients can run a lean team, focus on real product with every person owning a surface area that matters.
They're also launching a regulated virtual credit card proposition, and they're hiring a compliance leader to build the function from zero.
The role
You'll own every regulatory, compliance and risk obligation for the card programme, working across their BIN sponsor, issuer processor and card scheme so they operate within the rules of every market they enter.
You'll report directly to the Head of Payments & Banking, initially starting as a hands-on as an individual contributor, to design the compliance framework that scales with them across the UK and European Union. This isn't a governance-only role: compliance here is a commercial enabler, not a brake.
What you'll own
The end-to-end compliance framework for their virtual credit card programme across all planned markets
The regulatory relationship with their BIN sponsor (FCA and EEA licensed), and compliance with applicable e-money and consumer credit regulation
KYB and credit onboarding for card clients, including AML, CFT and financial crime controls
Compliance policies, procedures and controls across the full client lifecycle, onboarding through credit management and card operations
The compliance relationship with their issuer processor and card scheme: scheme rules, operating regulations and audit requirements
Licence and registration workstreams as they enter new markets, with external counsel where needed
The compliance risk register, escalation framework and incident response, plus a seat on the Risk Management Committee
Regulatory reporting and responses to queries from relevant authorities
Day-to-day internal legal and regulatory guidance, including horizon-scanning across priority markets
What you'll bring
6-10+ years in compliance, regulatory affairs or financial crime within financial services, fintech or payments
Deep working knowledge of UK FCA regulation and EEA e-money /
Head of Compliance in London employer: Tenzing Search Ltd
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