Senior Compliance & MLRO – Payments Fintech

Coopman Search and Selection | B Corp™; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Coopman Search and Selection | B Corp™ is sourcing a senior compliance leader to own regulatory compliance and financial crime frameworks end to end for a scaling payments fintech. The role combines payments and digital assets, with the MLRO responsibilities and primary liaison with the FCA.

You will lead FCA engagement, advise on regulatory perimeter, consumer duties, and Cryptoasset promotions, and build scalable screening and case management with RegTech and blockchain analytics tooling.

Qualifications

• Strong background in regulatory compliance within payments or cryptoasset sectors.
• Experience as MLRO or Head of Compliance within UK EMI/payment institutions or cryptoasset firms.

Responsibilities

• Hold the MLRO/nominated officer role with accountability for AML, CTF, sanctions, and proliferation financing frameworks.
• Oversee transaction monitoring across fiat and on-chain activity and make SAR/AML decisions.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

AML/CTF

FCA engagement

Blockchain analytics

RegTech tooling

Stakeholder management

Tools

Chainalysis

Elliptic

TRM Labs

Job description

Coopman Search and Selection | B Corp™ is sourcing a senior compliance leader to own regulatory compliance and financial crime frameworks end to end for a scaling payments fintech. The role combines payments and digital assets, with the MLRO responsibilities and primary liaison with the FCA.

You will lead FCA engagement, advise on regulatory perimeter, consumer duties, and Cryptoasset promotions, and build scalable screening and case management with RegTech and blockchain analytics tooling.