Payment Scheme Compliance Manager

Overview

As Payment Scheme Compliance Manager, you will establish and lead a European scheme compliance function to ensure adherence to local payment scheme rules. You’ll design processes, monitor rule changes, and train cross-functional teams. The role offers autonomy with potential team expansion and a direct impact on compliant, scalable payment operations. You’ll engage with payment schemes and internal stakeholders to balance compliance with commercial goals. This is a chance to shape a new function within a fast-growing payments company.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working (3 days on-site)
• 28-day holiday
• work from abroad policy
• GBP 500 annual learning budget
• leadership cafés and on-the-job training
• medical insurance (BUPA) and 5% pension match

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage a cross-methodology European scheme compliance program.
• Develop processes to ingest, interpret, and monitor scheme rule changes.
• Act as SME on scheme rules, providing guidance and training.
• Collaborate with Product, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Commercial teams to operationalise rule changes.
• Maintain proactive relationships with payment schemes to anticipate changes and impacts.
• Identify and manage compliance risks, including challenging rules when needed.
• Build the function’s infrastructure, including documentation, monitoring tools, and reporting.
• Define resource needs and onboard future team members to support growth.

Key requirements

• Strong understanding of payments industry and local schemes governance.
• Experience interpreting and applying scheme rules in commercial/operational settings.
• Proven ability to design and implement compliance processes from inception.
• Excellent stakeholder management, including liaising with external scheme representatives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to translate complex rules into actionable requirements.
• Confident communicator with the ability to influence across the business.
• Self-motivated with ability to work autonomously.

• stakeholder management
• clear communication
• analytical thinking
• scheme rule interpretation
• compliance process design
• risk identification and management

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