Senior Compliance & Risk Manager

Summary

Join Paddle as a Senior Compliance & Risk Manager and play a key role in ensuring global compliance within the company's rapidly expanding fintech operations. Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel, you will lead a team, develop and maintain compliance policies, and manage risk. This position requires 6-8 years of experience in payments, fintech, and scale-up businesses. The role is based in the UK but has a global scope, reflecting Paddle's international reach. You will collaborate with various teams, ensuring Paddle's adherence to global regulations and maintaining trust with customers and regulators. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication skills and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• You have 6-8 years of compliance experience, ideally in payments and/or in fast-growing businesses, with a proven ability to implement and manage scalable monitoring and reporting systems
• You have deep expertise in data protection, card scheme rules and payments regulation (e.g., PSD2, AML/KYC) and hands-on experience in fintech or SaaS environments
• You’ve worked in a high-growth scale-up, building compliance frameworks that emphasize real-time monitoring and detailed reporting to support rapid expansion
• You’re an exceptional communicator, able to distill compliance data into concise, actionable insights for diverse audiences—from engineers to regulators
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing proactive monitoring with the ability to respond swiftly to competing demands
• You’re detail-oriented, with a passion for ensuring compliance is not just met but demonstrably provable

Responsibilities

• Team leadership: Hire, onboard, and manage two additional compliance professionals, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team to support Paddle’s global compliance needs
• Payments compliance: Develop and refine compliance policies and procedures to ensure adherence to global card scheme rules, consumer protection laws and payments regulation (as applicable)
• Data protection : Act as Paddle’s Data Protection Officer, leading on all data protection queries, ensuring compliance with global data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), and overseeing policies, training, and incident responses related to personal data
• Compliance monitoring: Design and oversee simple tech-enabled monitoring programs to track compliance with internal policies and external regulations, using data-driven tools to identify trends and potential risks proactively
• Reporting: Deliver compliance reporting for internal stakeholders at all levels (e.g. senior leadership, the Board, product teams) and external regulators, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and clarity to demonstrate Paddle’s regulatory adherence
• Risk management: Develop and manage Paddle’s enterprise risk management program, collaborating with teams across the business to identify risks, embed controls and report on their effectiveness
• Regulatory research: Work with the legal team to stay ahead of evolving payments, consumer and fintech regulations, advising on their impact and integrating findings into monitoring and reporting frameworks
• Incident response: Lead investigations into high-risk complaints and/or compliance breaches, coordinating with legal and operational teams to resolve issues, and produce detailed incident reports for internal review and regulatory submission as needed

Benefits

• Attractive salaries
• Stock options
• Retirement plans
• Private healthcare
• Well-being initiatives
• Unlimited holidays
• Enhanced parental leave
• Annual learning fund
• Regular internal and external training