Head of Regulatory Affairs

The role

You will build and lead a new Regulatory Affairs function to manage supervisory relationships. You will handle information requests, inspections, and examinations while coordinating across Legal, Compliance, Risk, Finance, Product, and Tech teams.

What you will do

• Shape the approach to supervisory engagement across regulated entities
• Design how Regulatory Affairs works with Compliance, Legal, Risk and the business
• Plan team growth and identify countries needing local specialists
• Build a view of supervisory risk to set priorities
• Advise executives on supervisor expectations and upcoming activity
• Run the cycle of supervisory meetings including preparation and briefing
• Maintain records of communications and commitments to regulators
• Own the protocol for engagement with supervisors
• Manage regulator information requests and thematic reviews from receipt to submission
• Lead inspections, examinations and skilled-person reviews

Required qualifications

• Significant experience as a regulatory affairs manager / lead at a regulated payments, e-money or fintech firm
• Hands-on experience running regulatory information requests and inspections end to end, ideally across more than one country
• Strategic judgement to set direction and explain it to executives
• Excellent project management skills
• Track record of keeping calm under pressure
• Sound judgement on when to bring in Legal or Compliance
• Credibility with regulators and trust of senior executives
• Impeccable written communication
• People management experience, or clear readiness to build and lead a team

Nice to have

• Time in a supervisory team at a major financial regulator, such as the FCA, ACPR, MAS or CBUAE

About the company

Checkout.com is a fintech company that enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. They have 20 offices across six continents with London as their HQ.