Compliance Strategist

The role

This person will provide independent second-line assurance across Ramp UK and Irish regulated businesses. They will run a risk-based compliance monitoring programme and test controls related to financial-crime, safeguarding, payments, and governance.

What you will do

• Run a practical, risk-based compliance monitoring programme across Ramps European entities.
• Test key controls and identify gaps.
• Support assurance over financial-crime, payments, safeguarding, and outsourced-service controls.
• Track regulatory, Board, partner, audit, and internal commitments.
• Manage findings and remediation.
• Produce clear reporting for management and Boards on key risks, control issues, incidents, and progress.
• Provide independent compliance input and advisory on significant product, payments, outsourcing, and operational changes.
• Deputise for the Head of Compliance & MLRO where required.

Required qualifications

• Min. 4 year of experience in compliance, risk, audit, controls, or regulatory change within payments, fintech, banking, or another regulated environment.
• Experience supporting compliance monitoring, control testing, issue management, remediation, or governance reporting.
• Working knowledge of UK and/or EU financial-services regulation.
• Familiarity with financial-crime controls such as customer due diligence, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, or record keeping.
• An interest in areas such as payments, safeguarding, outsourcing, operational resilience, or third-party oversight.
• Strong judgement and communication skills.
• Comfortable working independently, managing priorities, and partnering with Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Risk teams.
• Curious about using AI responsibly to improve compliance analysis, monitoring, or documentation.

Nice to have

• Experience in a UK payment institution, e-money institution, bank, card issuer, acquiring business, or payments fintech.
• Experience supporting FCA-facing work, banking-partner due diligence requirements.
• Experience with Consumer Duty, safeguarding, or formal outsourcing governance.
• Professional compliance, audit, risk, or financial-crime qualification.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Centralized home-office equipment ordering
• Health and wellness stipend
• Budget for intra-office travel
• Weekly coffee stipend
• Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite
• Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi
• Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option
• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay

About the company

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. They automate how over $275B in annualized spend flows in and out of 85,000+ companies.