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Volt ⚡️ • London, United Kingdom

VP Compliance

Employment type:  Full time

3–4 days/week at home

Core hours 11–3

Dog friendly

Job Description

Title: VP, Compliance

Team: Compliance

Reporting to: SVP, Compliance

Location: London

Who we are

When Volt launched in 2019, we recognised how open banking had the power to transform how businesses, whatever they happen to be, receive payments from their customers. So, we set about building an open payments gateway that enables merchants across the globe to receive direct, account-to-account payments - in real time.

Now, on the back of a record breaking $23.5 million series A funding round, we’re building an all-star team to achieve our goal of ‘real time payments, everywhere’

About the role

We're looking for a VP, Compliance to support our growing team. Volt has grown to a 100+ person strong organisation across multiple geographies and will be looking to scale to an even larger position in 2022 and beyond. The need to be compliant with domestic and international regulation has never been more important.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Lead and develop our global compliance function - growing our team of talented compliance professionals and ensuring our processes and systems scale with our business
  • Work closely with Legal, Product and Engineering and other teams to enable delivery in key product and change initiatives, providing subject matter expertise both individually and through the Compliance team to guide the business
  • Own, improve and expand our compliance framework and monitoring programme - ensuring an effective and efficient approach to maintaining compliance
  • Lead regulatory applications for new licenses or changes to our existing arrangements
  • Develop and maintain a relationship of trust with the FCA and other regulators, with proactive, transparent and timely engagement
  • Identify and advise on upcoming new regulation or regulatory changes applicable to our business
  • Develop and deliver compliance training

Your experience:

  • You are highly skilled in compliance, with extensive experience gained from working in a senior compliance role in an FCA-regulated e-money institution.
  • You most probably are currently working or previously worked as the head of compliance / deputy head of compliance in another financial institution - ideally a FinTech that is operating in a similar space
  • You have a detailed understanding of regulation applicable to our business, such as PSD2, the Electronic Money Directive and their local implementations. You will have good knowledge of the FCA Handbook.
  • You have deep understanding of the key regulatory challenges faced across the payments and e-money sector, including areas of supervisory focus and UK-EU divergence.
  • You prioritise a practical approach to compliance and are skilled at translating requirements into efficient processes and communicate and collaborate effectively with impacted teams
  • You are resourceful and self-starting; you have appetite for picking up areas of which you have limited past experience, learning and where needed recruiting expertise
  • You have strong management skills; you are able to build and manage a team of compliance professionals
  • A real team oriented attitude is key, we have an ‘anti-ego’ policy where no team member is more important than any other and we all chip in where necessary for the good of the team
  • Positive and can-do attitude towards ever-changing priorities that are part of a start-up’s day-to-day.
  • Whilst we are committed to compliance, we are also a fast growing business so you will need to be comfortable with a fast changing landscape from which to operate within and deal with customer complaints with regulatory components

Why work at Volt?

  • In 2021, we secured $23.5 million in Series A funding – a record in the open banking space. We’re going places – fast
  • We’re building new, game-changing tech that’s evolving at lightning speed. It’s energising to be part of
  • We’ve brought together big names from the likes of Adyen, Klarna and IFX. Their expertise and enthusiasm is infectious
  • We champion ‘extreme ownership’ – being not just the owner of your own tasks, but a key member of a team united by, and accountable for, common goals.
  • Our culture is rooted in ambition. Discover what it’s like to work for a start-up on the cusp of achieving something big.
  • We have introduced some fantastic benefits such as enhanced parental leave, wellness Friday’s taken as you lease, private healthcare, pension, hybrid working and office lunches on Volt.

At Volt, diversity and inclusion are integral to our culture. We believe in hiring for cultural add, embracing difference and fostering a safe space where everyone can bring their authentic selves. Our mission is to transform the payments industry and this is only possible through the power of our diverse and talented team. Join us in making real-time payments accessible for all.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Shared parental leave
26 days annual leave + bank holidays
Enhanced sick pay
Pregnancy loss leave
Teambuilding days
Teambuilding holidays

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options Volt ⚡️ provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure Volt ⚡️ is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.

Working at Volt ⚡️

Company employees

100-150

Gender diversity (male:female)

73:27

Office locations

London, Amsterdam, Poland

Funding levels

Series A: $23.5 million

Hiring Countries

Netherlands
Poland
United Kingdom

Awards & Achievements

Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2023
Finance & Insurance

Finance & Insurance

Industry awards 2022