Global Compliance Manager - Series A Fintech

Our client is a Series A-backed fintech building a new generation of financial infrastructure for modern, global businesses.

They’re developing a smart financial platform designed to replace legacy ERP systems, combining automated accounting, real-time reporting and intelligent financial workflows. The company is an early-stage team defining a new software category, working with leading technology companies and backed by world-class investors.

The Global Compliance Manager role

You’ll build the compliance function from the ground up. There’s no playbook yet. You’ll work across Engineering, Legal, Finance and customer-facing teams to turn ambiguous requirements into a working system, owning the judgment calls and building the processes that make compliance clear, defensible and scalable as the business grows.

As an AI-native fintech, customers rely on the business to keep their data and financial information secure. You’ll be the single point of accountability for the SOC 1, SOC 2 and PCI DSS programmes, designing how compliance works rather than maintaining an existing system.

What you'll build

• Own compliance decisions and trade-offs across the business, building the framework from the ground up
• Interpret compliance frameworks and define the appropriate approach for real-world situations
• Run SOC 1, SOC 2 Type I & II, and PCI DSS programmes end to end
• Build the audit calendar, evidence processes and auditor relationships
• Track findings and drive remediation through to completion
• Build and maintain risk registers, exceptions and compensating controls
• Develop customer security questionnaires and vendor due diligence processes
• Partner with Finance, Engineering and Product to embed compliance into how features are designed and built

How you fit in

You think like a builder, not a caretaker, energised by starting from a blank page rather than maintaining something that already exists.

You make decisive calls on ambiguous problems rather than waiting for someone else to define the answer, and you care more about controls that work in practice than perfect documentation.

You’re organised, persistent and calm under pressure, with the ability to bring technical and non-technical people together around a system you’ve designed.

Your qualifications

• 8+ years of experience across compliance, risk or security
• Experience standing up a compliance function, rather than simply running an established programme
• Demonstrated experience interpreting frameworks and building processes from scratch
• Hands-on ownership of SOC 1, SOC 2 and/or PCI DSS
• Comfortable working with Engineering as a decision-maker without needing to do the technical work yourself
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable using AI tools to build and scale compliance processes

Bonus points

• Experience building a compliance function within an early-stage or high-growth company
• Fintech, payments or financial systems experience
• Experience with compliance platforms such as Vanta, Drata or Secureframe
• Background in engineering, IT operations or security

The opportunity

• 💸 Competitive salary + stock options
• 🏝 25 days of annual leave + public holidays
• 🥳 Regular socials and company off-sites
• 🚀 Significant opportunity for career growth and ownership as you help shape a market-defining product

This is an opportunity to join a company at an exciting stage of growth and play a foundational role in building its compliance function, with significant influence over how compliance, risk and security evolve as the business scales.