Compliance & Risk Lead (Fintech)

Location: UK; remote. The role is global in scope.

Company

hirify.global provides Merchant of Record and payment infrastructure services for digital product companies, serving more than 10,000 software sellers across 300 territories.

What you will do

• Lead, hire, onboard, and manage compliance professionals supporting global compliance needs.
• Develop and refine compliance policies and procedures covering card scheme rules, consumer protection laws, and payments regulation.
• Design and oversee tech-enabled compliance monitoring programs using data-driven tools to identify trends and potential risks.
• Deliver accurate, timely, and clear compliance reporting to senior leadership, the Board, product teams, and regulators.
• Develop and manage the enterprise risk management program, including risk identification, controls, and effectiveness reporting.
• Lead regulatory research and high-risk complaint or compliance breach investigations, coordinating incident resolution and regulatory submissions.

Requirements

• 6–8 years of compliance experience, ideally in payments and/or fast-growing businesses, including implementation and management of scalable monitoring and reporting systems.
• Deep expertise in data protection, card scheme rules, and payments regulation, including PSD2 and AML/KYC.
• Hands-on experience in fintech or SaaS environments.
• Experience working in a high-growth scale-up and building compliance frameworks with real-time monitoring and detailed reporting.
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to turn compliance data into concise, actionable insights for engineers, regulators, and other audiences.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, balancing proactive monitoring with competing demands.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to making compliance demonstrably provable.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, diverse, transparent, collaborative, and respectful culture.
• Remote work, access to company hubs, or a combination of both.
• Unlimited holidays and enhanced parental leave.
• Attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare, and well-being initiatives.
• Annual learning fund, regular internal and external training, and ongoing personal development opportunities.