Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that frees progressive businesses to accomplish more. Over 25,000 organisations across 31 countries use Soldo to end slow, messy, and inefficient spending, bringing financial agility and control over every expense.
Soldo frees finance with a uniquely proactive approach to managing decentralised spending. By combining a powerful spend management platform, user-friendly app, and versatile payment methods, Soldo automates expense admin to eliminate the inefficiency in managing business spending.
By proactively managing decentralised spend, organisations empower employees to spend when and where it's needed, keeping productivity high while avoiding month-end surprises.
Founded in 2015 by Italian digital innovator Carlo Gualandri, Soldo is headquartered in London, with offices in Dublin, Milan, and Rome.
We’re looking for people with big ambitions, cool heads, sharp minds, and warm hearts. Come and join us, as we grow together
What's in it for you
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Private healthcare – for you and your family
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Pension scheme
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Genuine career development opportunities (we love to see you succeed) - including your own annual £500 career development budget
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Access to training and development - including a mentoring programme, workshops and the opportunity to progress onto our leadership programme
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Flexible working options including working from home or our Marylebone office
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60 days’ work anywhere – even outside the UK if you want
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25 days’ off a year, plus public holidays. Plus extra days off on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and on your Birthday
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Up to 2 volunteering days per year
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Your own personal company Soldo card
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Employee Assistance Programme
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Tax efficient bike to work scheme
The role
As Compliance Lead, the role will be responsible for fostering and maintaining a strong culture of compliance across Soldo. This includes ensuring that our risk management and regulatory compliance programs are in line with regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations, which includes ensuring there is an adequate training program across the organization.
Reporting to the Head of Risk & Compliance, who has overall responsibility for the Risk and Compliance function. This role will lead, coordinate and deliver the Compliance roadmap, working across the Financial Services division and cross-functionally to ensure consistency across the group The successful candidate will be responsible for horizon scanning of regulation in the UK but potentially also beyond the UK depending on future company expansion plans.
You will ensure that daily compliance risk management and regulatory reporting, including metrics, trend analysis, and recommendations are in place. In carrying out this role, the person will engage with external stakeholders, including Regulators, and will work collaboratively and act as a point of contact for advice with many internal teams across the business, including AML/CFT, Legal, Operations, customer interaction and technology & IT platform teams.
Also ensure consistent approach to compliance standards across SFS Ltd, and SFS Dac while maintaining full compliance with all applicable jurisdictional requirements.
We're looking for someone who must have:
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Proven experience working as a senior risk and compliance professional in the financial services industry, preferably in fintech/payments and with EU-wide scope
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Experience and understanding of payments, e-money or wallet products / services and banking functions.
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A deep understanding of the regulatory compliance issues that a company like Soldo faces
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A history of maintaining the appropriate Fitness and Probity Standards as defined by the Central Bank of Ireland
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A proven ability to build strong working relationships with industry counterparts, regulators, partners, and at board level
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Strong leadership skills and an ability to create a culture of compliance by design across the organization.
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Effective team player
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An ability to find solutions to complex and hard problems and ability to turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid action plans
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Excellent communication skills including an ability to convey a compelling vision for compliance and risk
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A strong motivation to progress and learn.
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2nd language would be a significant plus
