Partner Engagements Manager, Compliance Strategy

The role

The Partner Engagements Manager, Compliance Strategy leads external-facing compliance strategy across banking, scheme, and strategic partner relationships. You will own the operating model and delivery of compliance-related partner engagements and convert external expectations into practical improvements to the roadmap and controls.

What you will do

• Own the Compliance Strategy partner-engagement portfolio.
• Establish and improve the operating model for partner engagements.
• Lead annual KYC AML partner compliance reviews and partner onboarding.
• Act as a senior Compliance representative in partner meetings.
• Provide oversight and challenge to response packs and control narratives.
• Lead compliance support for scheme, product-launch and geographic-expansion initiatives.
• Translate partner feedback into strategic recommendations and roadmap priorities.
• Build working relationships across Compliance, Legal, Risk, Product, Operations, Commercial, Finance, Technology and regional teams.
• Maintain governance over engagement risks, issues, decisions, and action plans.
• Coach and develop Senior Analyst(s).

Required qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in a similar role within compliance, regulatory compliance, risk, audit, legal or a related function in payments, fintech, banking or another regulated financial-services envir
• Demonstrable experience leading external partner, banking, scheme, audit, regulatory or due-diligence engagements.
• Experience translating regulatory or partner expectations into practical requirements, delivery plans, governance and measurable improvements.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional workstreams with multiple stakeholders, dependencies and deadlines.
• Experience coaching or managing people, setting priorities, giving feedback and creating clarity in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong understanding of the payments ecosystem and the compliance expectations relevant to banking partners, payment schemes and regulated financial institutions.
• Working knowledge of relevant compliance domains such as AML/CTF, sanctions, KYC/CDD/EDD, licensing, safeguarding, operational resilience, regulatory change or control assurance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Strong judgement and the confidence to challenge constructively.
• Strong organisational, analytical and project-management skills.

Nice to have

• ICA, ACAMS or another relevant professional qualification is desirable.

Benefits

• Hybrid working model with three days per week in the office

About the company

Checkout.com enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. The company has 20 offices across six continents with London as its HQ.