Strategic Partner Compliance Lead

Checkout Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Checkout.com in London is seeking a Partner Engagements Manager, Compliance Strategy, to lead our external-facing compliance strategy across banking, scheme and strategic partner relationships.

You will own the operating model and delivery of compliance-related partner engagements, lead complex cross-functional initiatives, coach senior analysts and drive improvements to our roadmap, controls and processes within a fast-growing fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Typically 3–5 years of experience in compliance, regulatory compliance, risk, audit, or a related function in payments, fintech, banking or another regulated financial-services environment.
• Demonstrable experience leading external partner, banking, scheme, audit, regulatory or due-diligence engagements.
• Experience translating regulatory or partner expectations into practical requirements, delivery plans, governance and measurable improvements.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional workstreams with multiple stakeholders, dependencies and deadlines.
• Experience coaching or managing people, setting priorities, giving feedback and creating clarity in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the Compliance Strategy partner-engagement portfolio, prioritising work across banking partners, schemes and other strategic external stakeholders.
• Establish and continuously improve the operating model for partner engagements, including governance, roles and responsibilities, service standards, evidence expectations, response libraries, escalation routes and management information.
• Lead annual KYC AML partner compliance reviews, partner onboarding or refreshes, complex RFIs and other material external engagements from planning through to closure.
• Act as a senior Compliance representative in partner meetings, with high level input around Checkout’s compliance framework, risk management approach, policies, controls, governance and improvement plans with clarity and confidence.
• Provide oversight and challenge to response packs, control narratives, policy summaries, presentations and supporting evidence, ensuring consistency, accuracy and appropriate ownership.
• Lead compliance support for scheme, product-launch and geographic-expansion initiatives, ensuring external partner obligations and readiness requirements are identified, tracked and addressed.
• Translate partner feedback, requests and emerging expectations into strategic recommendations, roadmap priorities, control enhancements and process improvements.
• Build strong working relationships across Compliance, Legal, Risk, Product, Operations, Commercial, Finance, Technology and regional teams to align delivery and resolve dependencies.
• Maintain clear governance over engagement risks, issues, decisions, action plans and remediation, escalating material matters to the Head of Compliance Strategy and relevant governance forums.
• Produce concise and decision-useful updates for Compliance leadership, senior management and governance committees, including themes, trends, risks, commitments and delivery status.
• Partner with relevant second-line teams to ensure external engagement activity is consistent with the Compliance framework, risk appetite, regulatory obligations and the responsibilities of the three lines of defence.
• Coach, develop and set clear expectations for Senior Analyst(s).
• Create and implement a high-quality, scalable and collaborative partner-engagement framework.
• Identify opportunities to use better data, tooling, workflow design and documentation to improve response quality, reduce duplication and increase the resilience of the Compliance operating model.
• Represent Compliance Strategy in cross-functional strategic initiatives and take on other priorities that support long-term capability maturation.

Skills

Partner engagement

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Governance

Project management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Job description

Checkout.com in London is seeking a Partner Engagements Manager, Compliance Strategy, to lead our external-facing compliance strategy across banking, scheme and strategic partner relationships.

You will own the operating model and delivery of compliance-related partner engagements, lead complex cross-functional initiatives, coach senior analysts and drive improvements to our roadmap, controls and processes within a fast-growing fintech environment.