Compliance Strategist (Second-Line Compliance)

Join Ramp, a fast-growing fintech company, as a Compliance Strategist. In this hands-on role, you will provide independent assurance across Ramp's UK and Irish regulated businesses. You will develop and implement a practical, evidence-led monitoring and assurance program, test key controls, track regulatory commitments, manage findings and remediation, and produce clear reporting for management and boards. You will also provide independent compliance input and advice on significant product, payments, outsourcing, and operational changes.

• Run a practical, risk-based compliance monitoring programme across Ramp's European entities, testing key controls and identifying gaps.
• Support assurance over financial-crime, payments, safeguarding, and outsourced-service controls, and track regulatory commitments.
• Produce clear reporting for management and Boards on key risks, control issues, incidents, and progress, and provide independent compliance input on significant changes.

• Comfortable working independently, managing priorities, and partnering with Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Risk teams
• Strong judgement and communication skills, with the confidence to identify issues, explain risk clearly, and work constructively with stakeholders
• Experience supporting compliance monitoring, control testing, issue management, remediation, or governance reporting
• Experience with Consumer Duty, safeguarding, or formal outsourcing governance
• Familiarity with financial-crime controls such as customer due diligence, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, or record keeping
• Working knowledge of UK and/or EU financial-services regulation, with the ability to apply requirements pragmatically in a fast-moving environment
• At least 4 years of experience in compliance, risk, audit, controls, or regulatory change within payments, fintech, banking, or another regulated environment
• An interest in areas such as payments, safeguarding, outsourcing, operational resilience, or third-party oversight
• Experience supporting FCA-facing work or banking-partner due diligence requirements
• Curious about using AI responsibly to improve compliance analysis, monitoring, or documentation
• A professional compliance, audit, risk, or financial-crime qualification
• Experience in a UK payment institution, e-money institution, bank, card issuer, acquiring business, or payments fintech