Compliance Strategist
Job description
A second-line compliance role providing independent assurance across Ramp's UK and Irish regulated businesses, sitting within the Europe Compliance function and supporting the Head of Compliance & MLRO - Europe. The role involves running a risk-based compliance monitoring and assurance programme and testing and challenging controls.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · London, United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Run a practical, risk-based compliance monitoring programme across Ramp's European entities.
- Test key controls and identify gaps, with a focus on whether they work in practice.
- Support assurance over financial-crime, payments, safeguarding, and outsourced-service controls.
- Track regulatory, Board, partner, audit, and internal commitments to ensure actions are completed on time.
- Manage findings and remediation, helping accountable teams resolve issues and confirming actions are closed.
- Produce clear reporting for management and Boards on key risks, control issues, incidents, and progress.
- Provide independent compliance input and advisory on significant product, payments, outsourcing, and operational changes.
- Deputise for the Head of Compliance & MLRO where required.
What we're looking for
- Min. 4 year of experience in compliance, risk, audit, controls, or regulatory change within payments, fintech, banking, or another regulated environment.
- Experience supporting compliance monitoring, control testing, issue management, remediation, or governance reporting.
- Working knowledge of UK and/or EU financial-services regulation, with the ability to apply requirements pragmatically in a fast-moving environment.
- Familiarity with financial-crime controls such as customer due diligence, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, or record keeping.
- An interest in areas such as payments, safeguarding, outsourcing, operational resilience, or third-party oversight.
- Strong judgement and communication skills, with the confidence to identify issues, explain risk clearly, and work constructively with stakeholders.
- Comfortable working independently, managing priorities, and partnering with Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Risk teams.
- Curious about using AI responsibly to improve compliance analysis, monitoring, or documentation.
Nice to have
- Experience in a UK payment institution, e-money institution, bank, card issuer, acquiring business, or payments fintech.
- Experience supporting FCA-facing work, banking-partner due diligence requirements.
- Experience with Consumer Duty, safeguarding, or formal outsourcing governance.
- Professional compliance, audit, risk, or financial-crime qualification.
Your team
Europe Compliance function
Sits within Ramp's Europe Compliance function and supports the Head of Compliance & MLRO - Europe.
Benefits
United Kingdom: Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay
- Flexible PTO
- Centralized home-office equipment ordering
- Health and wellness stipend
- Budget for intra-office travel
- Weekly coffee stipend
- United Kingdom: Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite
- United Kingdom: Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi
- United Kingdom: Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option
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About Ramp
The smart infrastructure for finance teams
Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $275B in annualized spend flows in and out of 85,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.
Mission
We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.
Key facts
- Automates how over $275B in annualized spend flows in and out of 85,000+ companies
- The median Ramp customer saves 7.5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year
- Ramp Payments Europe is developing across multiple legal entities, jurisdictions, payment rails, banking partners, product journeys, and shared Group services
What they value
- High agency and high urgency
- Slope over intercept
- Everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end