Compliance Manager, Finance & Banking

About Paysafe

Paysafe is a leading payments platform with an extensive track record of serving merchants and consumers in the global entertainment sectors. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry‑leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With 29 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of $152 billion in 2024, and approximately 3,000 employees located in 12+ countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in 48 currencies around the world.

Delivered through an integrated platform, Paysafe solutions are geared toward mobile‑initiated transactions, real‑time analytics and the convergence between brick‑and‑mortar and online payments. Further information is available at

The role will be responsible for supporting the UK CCO & MLRO in all matters relating to Financial Crime Compliance; ensuring that the Paysafe UK entities remain compliant with all relevant Financial Crime regulations and regulatory expectations and operate within risk appetite.
Please note it is essential for the sucessful candidate to have UK Regulatory experience.

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Our values and culture are driven by Equality, Development, Social Responsibility and Wellbeing. If you want to find out more about life at Paysafe, check out our careers page here.

We follow a hybrid working model, spending an average of three days per week at our office location. The office is located in Gresham Street next to St Paul’s cathedral with easy access and transport links via St Paul’s, Bank, Cannon Street, City Thameslink, Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Mansion House.

• Keep abreast of applicable regulations, sanctions, legislation, prohibition and advisory notes from regulators and UK Government agencies and collaborate with the CCO & MLRO and the Regulatory & Legal teams to ensure those are adequately processed and implemented by the UK businesses.
• Assume a leading role in, and be the go‑to person for, project managing initiatives and change management plans on behalf of the UK CCO & MLRO Unit
• Support the UK CCO & MLRO in:
  • the receipt and consideration of escalations from the business regarding consumers, merchants and/or framework/policy/procedural changes or new product launches which require approval and advice from the CCO & MLRO.
  • coordinating correspondence and meetings/presentations with UK regulators
    , agencies and authorities
  • the preparation and delivery of MLRO reports for the three UK entities.
  • the review of business‑
    wide risk assessments for the three UK entities as well as product risk assessments.
  • collaboration with the Group SAR Team, in reviewing and filing SARs in a timely manner.
  • preparing and presenting material,
    management information and updates to the UK Boards and Committees.
  • their communication, engagement, direction and training of 1
    
    LoD teams and the rest of the business.
  • maintenance of record keeping covering: escalations, decisions, remediation plans and MLRO reports.
  • managing any regulatory or external agency reviews and/or enquiries, in collaboration with the Legal and Regulatory teams
• Close collaboration with global Compliance teams, the Regulatory Reporting team and Regulatory/Legal teams to ensure that UK related regulations, regulator‑reporting, management information and entity level risk assessments are considered and adequately implemented for the three UK entities.
• Step into meetings and discussions , and represent the UK CCO & MLRO Unit, at times where the CCO & MLRO are unavailable.
• Develop and deliver management information to the CCO & MLRO on an ad‑hoc basis.
• Collaborate with CCO & MLRO Unit Directors to ensure prompt delivery of the above responsibilities.

• Knowledge of UK financial crime regulations
• Previous experience working in a financial crime compliance role, ideally within a payments or fintech environment