Business Continuity Lead- EMEA

dLocal; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 1 501 000 - 2 003 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company is looking for a Business Continuity Lead in Cape Town to oversee operational resilience across EMEA. This role involves incident response leadership, coordinating partners, and maintaining governance standards. The ideal candidate must have extensive experience in payments or business continuity, demonstrate incident management skills, and proficiently communicate across various stakeholders. This position offers a flexible, remote work culture along with a range of learning and social benefits.

Benefits

Flexible work schedules

Premium Coursera subscription

Referral bonus program

Language classes

Monthly social budget

Team co-working rental houses

Qualifications

• 6–8+ years in payments or business continuity roles.
• Deep understanding of payment operations and ecosystem.
• Strong problem-solving, prioritization skills under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response across EMEA with clear ownership.
• Maintain governance and track recovery time objectives.
• Coordinate partners to ensure operational readiness.

Skills

Payments / fintech operations experience

Incident management

Stakeholder management

Data-driven mindset

English fluency

Tools

Jira

Excel

Job description

Why should you join dLocal? dLocal enables the biggest companies in the world to collect payments in 40 countries in emerging markets. Global brands rely on us to increase conversion rates and simplify payment expansion effortlessly. As both a payments processor and a merchant of record where we operate, we make it possible for our merchants to make inroads into the world’s fastest‑growing, emerging markets. By joining us you will be a part of an amazing global team that makes it all happen, in a flexible, remote‑first dynamic culture with travel, health and learning benefits, among others. Being a part of dLocal means working with 1000+ teammates from 30+ different nationalities and developing an international career that impacts millions of people’s daily lives. We are builders, we never run from a challenge, we are customer‑centric, and if this sounds like you, we know you will thrive in our team.

What’s the opportunity?

Be the regional Business Continuity Lead for Payins, owning operational resilience strategy, incident response leadership, and continuity planning across EMEA, aligned to global standards and local execution needs. Elevate continuity outcomes for merchants by coordinating people, processes, and platforms, and by partnering with processors, acquirers, card schemes, APM providers, and issuers. Translate the global BCMS into regional plans (policy, BIA, RTO / RPO, testing) to minimize disruption, reduce recovery time, and improve processor SLA adherence. Drive measurable impact on uptime, incident resolution time, root‑cause closure quality, and stakeholder communications across time zones.

What will I be doing?

• Lead end‑to‑end incident response across EMEA: triage, escalation, containment, communications, recovery, and post‑incident reviews with clear ownership and SLAs.
• Own regional continuity governance: maintain BIA, set and track RTO / RPO, run test exercises, publish learnings, and ensure ISO 22301‑aligned improvements to the BCMS.
• Coordinate with partners (processors, acquirers, card networks, APMs, issuers) to remove operational blockers, ensure redundancy and failover readiness, and reduce impact during partner incidents.
• Assure merchant continuity: readiness checks for go‑lives, hyper‑care, risk controls for new payment flows, and clear escalation pathways for CS / AMs.
• Direct root‑cause analysis (RCA) and documentation (Jira), track corrective actions, and institutionalize learnings across markets.
• Drive metrics and reporting: incident volume, average time to resolve, processor SLA adherence, % traffic affected, communications timeliness, test coverage, and RCA completion.
• Lead and develop the EMEA Business Continuity team (Managers / Specialists / Associates): hiring, coaching, prioritization, and performance management.
• Partner cross‑functionally with Ops Engineering (uptime / latency / alerts), Ops Support / IRM (systemic incidents, refunds, end‑user), Global Partners & Enablement, and Global Initiatives to align fixes, automation, and standards.
• Engage with Risk, Compliance, Product, and Technology to embed continuity requirements into platform roadmaps and ensure regulatory readiness.

What skills do I need?

• 6–8+ years in payments / fintech operations or business continuity, including incident management and partner / processor engagement
• Deep understanding of payment operations and ecosystem (processors, acquirers, card schemes, APMs; credentials, routing, settlement, reconciliation)
• Demonstrated incident leadership across time zones with strong stakeholder management and executive communications
• Working knowledge of ISO 22301, BIA, RTO / RPO, PDCA, and continuity testing practices
• Data‑driven mindset; proficiency with Sheets / Excel; familiarity with ticketing and documentation tooling (Jira); BI / SQL a plus
• Strong problem‑solving, prioritization, and ownership under pressure; ability to coach and lead teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication; fluency in English (additional languages a plus)

What do we offer?

• Remote work: work from anywhere or one of our offices around the globe! Flexibility: we have flexible schedules and we are driven by performance.
• Fintech industry: work in a dynamic and ever‑evolving environment, with plenty to build and boost your creativity.
• Referral bonus program: our internal talents are the best recruiters – refer someone ideal for a role and get rewarded.
• Learning & development: get access to a Premium Coursera subscription.
• Language classes: we provide free English, Spanish, or Portuguese classes.
• Social budget: you'll get a monthly budget to chill out with your team (in person or remotely) and deepen your connections!
• dLocal Houses: want to rent a house to spend one week anywhere in the world coworking with your team? We’ve got your back!

For people based in Montevideo (Uruguay) applying to non‑IT roles, 55% monthly attendance to the office is required.

What happens after you apply? Our Talent Acquisition team is invested in creating the best candidate experience possible, so don’t worry, you will definitely hear from us. We will review your CV and keep you posted by email at every step of the process! Also, you can check out our … and for more about dLocal! We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.