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**:
Proactively protect Global Payments business, contribute to the company’s compliance status, and support client’s ability to comply by driving all compliance activities which include reviewing internal processes, documents and reports from regulatory/supervisory/industry bodies and/or payment networks, and ensuring compliance with internal and external regulatory framework. Identify required, discretionary, business and system updates, recommend approaches and solutions that are compliant with applicable regulations while balancing proper investment pursuant to overall corporate, division and department goals. May develop and implement training plans for the effective use of Global Payments Tools & Methodologies. May engage with client and industry stakeholders to educate and influence network/scheme or regulatory strategy.

**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 while balancing proper investment pursuant to overall corporate, division and department goals. 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.
- 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.
- Administers the compliance work stream multiple initiatives/projects, while assisting the Subject Matter Expert (SME) with internal and external consultations, to ensure adherence to department, division, and corporate disciplines and methodologies while maintaining compliance to reporting standards/requirements and proper usage of escalation. Works in close liaison with both technical and business stakeholders to ensure moderately complex to complex technical solutions correctly encapsulate the identified compliance/business requirements. Leverages technical acumen to provide compliance guidance and feedback for proposed technical solutions. May provide status updates to management for all open initiatives/projects.
- Mentors other team members and provides guidance and peer review activities on compliance initiatives/projects. Assists management in building department processes and recommending changes to existing processes. Demonstrates guiding principles and liaises with teams to enhance job performance and build cross-functional knowledge base.

**What Are We Looking For in This Role?**:
Minimum Qualifications
- Relevant Experience or Degree in: No degree specified
- Typically Minimum 6 Years in a regulated firm and/or in the payments industry with experience of UK and EU regulations and legal requirements
- 4-year college degree and 6 years or more of professional experience, or 8 yrs. of specialized training or relative professional experience

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