Location
Birmingham Office, Hybrid Working option available

Hours
Rotational shift pattern between 8am - 8pm Monday to Friday

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a CDD High Risk Vertical Analyst to join our ever-evolving Compliance and Risk Enablement team and help shape the future of global commerce.

Compliance and Risk Management: Perform due diligence reviews across high-risk sectors including Cryptocurrency, Gambling, Marketplaces, Money Transmission and Payment Facilitators, amongst others. Drive strategic partnerships to accelerate growth and mitigate risk across our Enterprise portfolio. Manage relationships with business leaders, legal, compliance and external merchants. Collaborate with 2nd line Compliance, Risk and Legal to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and industry best practice whilst managing operational impact for both tactical and strategic initiatives. Identify complexities in high-risk models and ensure the right skills, tools, and analytical methods are used for onboarding.

Continuous Improvement: Support the development of compliance and risk frameworks to enhance operational efficiency, including contribution to or creation of practical controls and standard operating procedures (SOPs). Collaborate with commercial teams to identify and assess operational challenges related to Merchant growth, including monitoring and reporting. Balance commercial objectives whilst maintaining operational adherence. Support and implement key initiatives across impacted Operational business units.

Relationship Management: Develop and maintain open and positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders as necessary. Create a customer-focused culture that understands risk and fosters an innovative can-do mindset to achieve both regulatory objectives and a good customer experience.

Training and Development: Attend and contribute to relevant meetings focused on risk and compliance to represent and understand operational impact for strategic initiatives. Keep up with global regulatory changes to better understand operational risks.

Experience
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in compliance or risk management. Experience in the payments industry. Knowledge of high-risk vertical regulations such as gambling, payment facilitators, cryptocurrency and money transmission.

About you
A demonstrable understanding of legal and regulatory requirements pertaining to customer due diligence, Wolfsberg industry standards and card network rules. Strong practical understanding of the importance of a rigorous control environment. A strategic thinker with the ability to identify, mitigate and communicate risks and issues that could impact the organisation and the customer experience. Ability to build a positive culture of continuous improvement and learning, encouraging professional development and knowledge sharing initiatives. Ability to maintain strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, ensuring effective communication and alignment. Highly analytical with strong problem-solving skills, able to interpret complex data and make informed decisions.

Qualifications
Not explicitly stated, but relevant compliance, risk management or payments industry qualifications would be advantageous.