Compliance Specialist

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.
***Job Title**:Compliance Specialist**

**Location**:York, UK (Hybrid)**

**Salary**:£35,000-£45,000**
***Summary of This Role**:
**Working as part of the Enterprise Compliance team, you will be protecting our business and supporting our regulated clients' ability to comply with regulatory mandates in the UK and EU. This would require communicating with internal teams (e.g. product, development) and with multiple UK and EU clients on all levels of seniority.**

**What Part Will You Play?**
- **Reviews and interprets documentation, to include proposed changes, from all supported UK and EU regulatory bodies e.g. Financial Conduct Authority, European Banking Authority and payment networks (e.g. Visa, MasterCard etc.) to identify required/discretionary business and system updates. Recommends (non)routine approaches and/or solutions that are compliant with applicable regulations.**:

- **Shares horizon planning information (e.g. regulatory and industry direction and changes) with internal and client audiences.**:

- **Liaises and collaborates with clients to share information, interpretations and regulatory requirements whilst being careful not to give regulatory advice to our clients. Attempts to organise a consensus view between multiple clients in order to achieve robust, future-proofed, efficient and compliant system and product design.**:

- **Works with both technical and business stakeholders to ensure moderately complex to complex technical solutions correctly encapsulate the identified compliance/business requirements.**:

- **Provides status updates to management for all risks and projects**:

- **Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of processing platforms, downstream services/products and potential client impacts to processes and business operations while documenting business compliance requirements.**

**About you**:
**We’re looking for someone who is used to bringing regulatory changes to life and seeks out new ways to manage regulatory risk in our business rather than waiting to be consulted by other parts of the business.**
- **You'll be resilient and great at multi-tasking.**:

- **Comfortable with a collaborative approach when dealing with clients**:

- **An excellent communicator, from 1-2-1, small groups and large audiences. Comfortable with translating “tech-speak” into layman's terms for non-technical audiences**:

- **Able to support virtual and face to face meetings/workshops**:

- **Curious, knowledgeable, and personable, with a nature that helps you to transfer your enthusiasm for our business, industry, and technology**

**What Are We Looking for in This Role?**
- **At least 4 years of relevant experience and/or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.**:

- **Typically, minimum 6 Years in a regulated firm and/or in the payments industry with experience of UK and EU regulations and legal requirements**

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- **Experience working with IT, technical development and project management methodologies is desired**:

- **Experience liaising or collaborating with external parties**:

- **Experience with implementation of UK’s Consumer Credit Act and EU’s Payment Services Directive**

**What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?**
- **Skills / Knowledge - Having wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways. Some barriers to entry exist at this level (e.g., dept./peer review).**:

- **Oral/Written communication - Ability to create client communication, presentations and bulletin content - present information in client and market facing forums**:

- **Proactive and approachable attitude to sharing compliance information and concepts with all areas of the business and being able to ‘translate’ regulatory and legal language into everyday language.**:

- **Job Complexity - Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise.**:

- **Supervision - Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel (Team Lead).**:

- **Technical Acumen - Ability to validate highly complex business requirements to technical designs for core