Payment Scheme Compliance Manager

About PPRO

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Establish and manage compliance processes across European payment methods and their distinct scheme rules.
• Ingest, interpret, and monitor rule changes to keep the business compliant.
• Act as scheme-rules subject matter expert and train internal teams.
• Work with Product, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Commercial teams to operationalize rule changes.
• Maintain relationships with payment schemes and anticipate upcoming changes and impacts.
• Identify, escalate, and manage compliance risks; challenge or lobby against rules where appropriate.
• Build documentation, monitoring tools, and reporting frameworks for the function.
• Define future resource requirements and onboard team members.

Skills and experience required

• Strong knowledge of payments, local payment schemes, and their governance frameworks.
• Experience interpreting and applying scheme rules in a commercial or operational setting.
• Ability to develop and implement compliance processes from the ground up.
• Strong stakeholder management, including liaison with external scheme representatives.
• Analytical and problem-solving ability to turn complex rules into actionable requirements.
• Confident communication and ability to influence at all business levels.
• Self-motivated and comfortable working independently with significant autonomy.

Workplace

• Hybrid working with an expectation of three days per week on site.
• Employees may work remotely from abroad for up to 30 additional days per year under the stated policy.

Benefits and development

• 28-day holiday allowance and a GBP 500 annual learning and development budget.
• Leadership cafés, on-the-job training, medical insurance, and a 5% matching pension plan.
• Enhanced family leave, a workplace nursery scheme, gym membership support, and a mental health platform.

Office

• The company's HQ is on Procter Street, within walking distance of Holborn, Farringdon, and Covent Garden.
• The office is designed for cross-team collaboration and is pet-friendly.