Compliance & Risk Manager – Financial Crime, Seller Operations
Paddle
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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SeniorLead
About the role
- Partner closely with Paddle’s Risk Operations and Support teams, acting as a trusted second-line advisor across the seller lifecycle
- Develop and evolve Paddle’s Financial Crime Compliance Programme, covering AML, fraud, sanctions, and related seller risk
- Ensure seller operations and related product or operational changes are compliant by design
- Provide oversight, challenge, and guidance to first-line teams
- Serve as the second-line escalation point for complex seller onboarding, monitoring, and financial crime cases
- Support external engagements related to Paddle's fincrime programme
- Draft and maintain policies and standards across the seller lifecycle
- Lead compliance workstreams within product or seller remediation initiatives
- Develop and maintain obligation mapping for regulatory, scheme, and product-related requirements
- Provide second-line oversight of product and operational change
- Support regulatory change implementation
- Contribute to risk management activities, including RCSAs, control testing, and documenting control design and effectiveness
- Partner with Risk Operations leadership to establish governance and reporting
Requirements
- 7+ years’ experience in compliance, risk, or regulatory advisory, ideally within payments, fintech, SaaS, or a Merchant of Record / marketplace model
- Strong working knowledge of AML, sanctions, fraud, and merchant risk, Card scheme rules
- Experience in first-line and/or second-line roles, with clear experience providing oversight, advisory, or risk and control ownership
- Comfortable being hands-on, including drafting policies, designing controls, and leading remediation
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives, particularly remediation, regulatory change, or control uplift programmes
- Clear and confident communicator, able to translate complex regulatory requirements for first-line teams and senior stakeholders
- Detail-oriented and pragmatic, able to manage competing priorities while maintaining strong risk judgement
Benefits
- Unlimited holidays
- 4 months paid family leave regardless of gender
- Attractive salaries
- Stock options
- Retirement plans
- Private healthcare
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Investment in learning and personal development via constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning fund, and regular internal and external training
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
AMLfraud preventionsanctions complianceregulatory change implementationobligation mappingcontrol testingrisk managementpolicy draftingcontrol designremediation initiatives
Soft skills
communicationoversightadvisorydetail-orientedpragmaticrisk judgementcross-functional leadershipstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingprioritization