Plaid is hiring a
Compliance Analyst in United Kingdom

Summary

The Risk & Compliance Team at Plaid is responsible for mitigating risks and maintaining controls to ensure trust in the platform. The team works closely with various departments to protect the ecosystem and enable business growth. In this role, the employee will conduct compliance reviews, manage risk analyses, perform transaction monitoring, and develop internal policies and procedures.

Requirements

• 2-3+ years of relevant compliance, risk, or operational experience with a specific focus on financial services. Fintech experience is strongly preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Compliance specialist with a strong knowledge and understanding of AML/CTF/Sanctions regulations and requirements, including financial crime risks
• Experience of due diligence processes, vendors and systems. Good understanding of UK and EU regulatory structure, process, and underlying principles

Responsibilities

• Being part of a highly evolving cross-functional team in a rapidly growing organization
• Having a significant impact on the future of financial services
• Using your experience and working with autonomy to problem solve and drive process improvements
• Conducting and managing compliance reviews and risk analyses of prospective UK and EU customers and partners as they come through the GTM pipeline
• Performing ad-hoc and periodic reviews of customers and partners
• Undertaking transaction and fraud monitoring and taking action as required
• Partnering with the Compliance Monitoring and Testing team to facilitate ongoing reviews and obtain assurance over operational activity
• Supporting the business in the efficient and effective discharge of its regulatory duties concerning all aspects of financial crime
• Articulating complex and nuanced compliance requirements into understandable concepts
• Promoting a strong culture of compliance

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideal candidate is positive, collaborative, highly organized, and an independent thinker with demonstrated good judgment, problem-solving, and analytical skills
• Ability to work well under pressure and empathetic to the challenges of a start-up
• Strong familiarity with a range of relevant financial and technical concepts
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves
• Intellectual honesty and humility; you should be willing to admit when you don’t know something, and should have the discernibility to escalate issues when necessary