Compliance and Risk Manager, KodyPay
POS platform and payment aggregator
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POS platform and payment aggregator
21-100 employees
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21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring online payments to brick & mortar businesses
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in a compliance or risk management role within fintech, payments or regulated financial services
- Strong knowledge of AML/CTF regulations, KYC/CDD/EDD best practices and global sanctions regimes
- Experience operating under UK and/or Hong Kong regulatory frameworks (i.e. FCA, HKMA)
- Familiarity with compliance expectations in the US and EU (i.e. FinCEN, OFAC, PSD2, AMLD) is a strong plus
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain policies, procedures and audit-ready documentation
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, both internally and externally
- A proactive, analytical mindset with a practical approach to managing compliance risks
- Comfortable working independently and cross-functionally in a fast-moving environment
What the job involves
- Kody is growing fast, and as we scale our payments platform across multiple jurisdictions, it’s critical that our compliance and risk management practices evolve with us
- We’re looking for a dedicated Compliance & Risk Manager to take ownership of our regulatory and operational risk frameworks, ensuring we meet all obligations in the UK and Hong Kong, while preparing for further expansion
- You’ll be responsible for leading all aspects of compliance and risk management at Kody
- This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll develop and maintain key policies, ensure regulatory adherence across regions, and embed a strong risk culture throughout the business
- You’ll work closely with operations, product and leadership to support secure and scalable growth
- Develop, implement, and maintain compliance policies covering AML/CTF, sanctions screening, KYC/CDD/EDD and transaction monitoring
- Manage and oversee customer due diligence processes in both onboarding and ongoing contexts
- Monitor for regulatory changes across the UK, Hong Kong, and other target markets (i.e. US, EU etc) and ensure internal policies stay aligned
- Lead internal audits and maintain audit-ready compliance documentation
- Take ownership of required investigations including the communication and escalation and resolution with all relevant stakeholders
- Deliver regular training to ensure all staff understand and comply with legal and regulatory obligations
- Act as the primary point of contact for external financial partners, banking providers, and regulatory inquiries
- Conduct and maintain enterprise-wide risk assessments and manage internal risk registers
- Build and deliver monthly MI reporting, providing insights and trends on incidents
- Work with our technology team to build scalable, efficient and automated risk compliance processes that support rapid business growth
- Provide compliance input on product and operational developments to ensure regulatory alignment
- Champion a strong compliance and risk culture throughout the organisation
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Over recent years fintech innovators have been pushing to try and make brick-and-mortar commerce competitively seamless with online shopping. An area of particular focus is payments: how to offer them fast, directly, and hassle-free. KodyPay is one company trying to solve this issue for the hospitality sector.
Kodypay offers hospitality businesses a complete payments solution that aggregates QR, terminal and third party delivery services. By marketing itself as a sole payments provider, KodyPay seeks to displace legacy terminal providers, as well as providing QR web flow products. As such KodyPay offers its customers a simpler and more cost effective means of managing payments.
Sunday, Zapper, Droplet, and FlyPay are among the many companies offering similar services with strong uptake and healthy funding, but KodyPay's all-in-one proposition gives it a vital edge. This is exemplified by healthy Series A funding awarded to KodyPay in 2024 that comes off the back of a reported annualised processing volume nearing $1billion in value.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
32% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2024
$20m
SERIES A
Nov 2022
$5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $31m
Company benefits
- 25 days of holiday per year that increases to 27 after two years of service
- +1 bonus day per year to be taken on an occasion of your choosing
- Remote first and flexible working, with an option to work from our office in a WeWork in Shoreditch (completely optional)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- £1,000 annual learning and development allowance
- £200 once-off budget to make your home office set-up comfy
- Work from abroad for part of the year (subject to tax laws and customer needs)
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Yoyo Chang
(CEO & Co-Founder)A Cambridge grad who went on to found IIC Holdings and VC firm Nerd Ventures.
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