Compliance & Risk Lead – Maternity Cover

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🔥 31 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🚔 Compliance

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Paddle

201 - 500 employees

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

💰 Debt Financing on 2022-05

SaaS • Fintech • B2B

Paddle is a comprehensive merchant of record and payment solution specifically designed for SaaS businesses. It provides a complete suite of products and services including billing, subscription management, pricing strategies, tax compliance, fraud protection, and more. Paddle helps software companies manage payments, streamline billing, and enhance customer retention with tools like ProfitWell Metrics and Price Intelligently. By handling sales taxes, fraud liability, and all aspects of the billing process, Paddle enables SaaS businesses to focus on growth without worrying about the complexities of global compliance.

📋 Description

• Report to the VP, Compliance • Lead Paddle’s compliance team and collaborate with legal, product, operational, and other teams • Hire, onboard, and manage compliance professionals • Develop and refine compliance policies and procedures for global card scheme rules, consumer protection laws, and payments regulation • Design and oversee technology-enabled compliance monitoring programs • Use data-driven tools to identify trends and potential risks proactively • Deliver accurate, timely, and clear compliance reporting to senior leadership, the Board, product teams, and external regulators • Develop and manage Paddle’s enterprise risk management program • Identify risks, embed controls, and report on control effectiveness • Research evolving payments, consumer, and fintech regulations with the legal team • Advise on regulatory impact and integrate findings into monitoring and reporting frameworks • Lead investigations into high-risk complaints and compliance breaches • Coordinate incident resolution with legal and operational teams • Produce detailed incident reports for internal review and regulatory submission as needed

🎯 Requirements

• 6–8 years of compliance experience • Experience ideally in payments and/or fast-growing businesses • Proven ability to implement and manage 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 • Experience building compliance frameworks emphasizing real-time monitoring and detailed reporting • Exceptional communication skills for presenting compliance data to engineers, regulators, and diverse audiences • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage competing demands • Strong attention to detail • Interest in ensuring compliance is demonstrably provable

🏖️ Benefits

• Attractive salary • Stock options • Retirement plans • Private healthcare • Well-being initiatives • Remote work, office hub, or hybrid work options • Unlimited holidays • Enhanced parental leave • Annual learning fund • Regular internal and external training • Personal development through exposure to new challenges

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