2LoD Assurance Manager, GoCardless
£46.4-69.6k
Our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point (£46,400 - £58,000) of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Plus equity
1+ day a week in office
Making payments easier for everyone
Open for applications
Making payments easier for everyone
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
£46.4-69.6k
Our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point (£46,400 - £58,000) of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Plus equity
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To become the world’s bank payment network.
Role
Who you are
- Deep understanding of risks and controls. Knowledge of ML/TF, KYC/CDD, and transaction monitoring is a plus
- 4+ years’ experience in assurance or risk management (2LoD/3LoD/Audit). This is a 2LoD oversight-based role, distinct from operational 1LoD functions such as KYC/EDD, QA/QC, or Alert Investigation
- Comfortable with developing methodology for testing the design and operating effectiveness of controls
- Organised and have an ability to articulate and recommend practical remediations, and track issues to closure
- Excellent project and stakeholder management
- Have objective verbal and writing skills to write and communicate clear and concise assurance reports which are accessible to non-financial crime experts
- Deliver targeted presentations that succinctly report on the effectiveness of our issue management process
- Understanding of financial crime model calibration — knowledge of fuzzy matching logic and ‘tuning’ testing including AtL and BtL testing
What the job involves
- The Assurance Manager is a key role in the Financial Crime Compliance team, that reports directly into the Group MLRO and will be responsible for operating the second line oversight framework
- The role will be responsible for monitoring and testing our financial crime risk controls, working with our auditors to ensure that audit reviews go smoothly, and will be responsible for driving closure of open issues
- This is a hands-on role that has both a long-term, strategic focus as well as getting the day-to-day things done
- Providing assurance of our financial crime risk controls through regular testing, thematic reviews, targeted deep-dive reviews, and data analysis — assessing adequacy of GoCardless’ financial crime policies, procedures and systems
- Planning, preparing, and executing the end-to-end annual Financial Crime Compliance Assurance program
- Drafting reports that outline findings and corresponding action plans to mitigate issues found during reviews
- Pulling, and then slicing and dicing large data (advanced Excel etc.) to identify and monitor risk indicators
- Managing and/or overseeing day-to-day regulatory/external/internal exams related to financial crime — including preparation, coordination, and response activities
- Logging and tracking to completion of assurance, audit, self-identified and other related risks and issues, to validate remediation efforts, as well as escalate to relevant stakeholders where appropriate
- Supporting the development, introduction and completion of project and business solutions to resolve any financial crime related matters
- Delivering targeted financial crime training and conducting root cause "lessons learned" sessions for the Compliance Operations and Sales teams to drive continuous improvement in areas identified during reviews
- Developing cross-functional skills within the global team and demonstrating a proactive willingness to support, own, and execute tasks from start to finish
- Supporting the wider Regulatory Compliance Assurance team as required, providing insight and assistance to ensure firm-wide adherence to evolving regulatory standards globally
Our take
GoCardless has emerged to facilitate recurring payments, with a focus on streamlining the subscription economy. After securing $75M in 2019 for international expansion, the company now operates in over 30 countries, processing over $130B annually across more than 2500 for 100,000 businesses.
Recent advancements include the acquisition of Nordigen in 2022, enabling GoCardless to leverage OpenBanking functionality and establish a robust platform for direct bank-to-bank payments. The company also achieved an impressive $312 million in Series G funding in 2022. With a strategic eye on the future, GoCardless introduced GC Embed, a white-labeling product granting other payment providers access to its premier bank payment platform.
This success is underscored by the company's commitment to innovation, exemplified by its 2019 partnership with TransferWise, integrating foreign exchange rates into its services. GoCardless continues to evolve, navigating the complex landscape of recurring payments and staying ahead of competitors like Stripe and Square, who are beginning to enter the subscription economy. With a global footprint spanning the UK, France, the US, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal, and ANZ, GoCardless remains at the forefront of reshaping how businesses manage and process recurring payments on a massive scale.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Feb 2022
$312m
SERIES G
Feb 2021
$105m
SERIES F
Total funding: $634.5m
Company benefits
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental pay
- 27 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work-away scheme
- Health insurance
- 4 additional wellbeing days off per year
- Equity grant for all permanent employees
Company values
- Start With Why: We believe you can only do a job properly when you know why you are doing it. Understanding why we care about the problem motivates us to keep going until we’ve solved it
- Make it Happen: We work with urgency, and take personal accountability for getting things done in pursuit of our vision.
- Care Deeply: We care deeply about our impact on the world and those around us
- Act with Integrity: We do what’s right even when no one is watching. We don't see doing the right things as a choice — we act with integrity regardless of the cost
- Be Humble: We act without ego and don’t let excuses get in the way of achieving our goals. We believe life's too short for self-importance
Company HQ
Clerkenwell, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Hiroki Takeuchi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Hiroki and Matt met when they were consultants. They started GoCardless during Y Combinator. Hiroki was previously a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.
Matt Robinson
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Started company supplying waiters to events while at school, before joining McKinsey. Founded Nested Estate Agents in 2015 where they currently serve as CEO.
People progressing
Beccy joined GoCardless as a Sales Development Representative in May 2018 and has since had 3 promotions to become Senior Manager.
Steph joined GoCardless as an Intern in the Compliance team 4 years ago and she's now the Manager of the team.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at GoCardless
Lena Tailor (Director of D&I)
- Given the large number of hires we have been making in recent months, we have continuously reviewed both our hiring processes and channels to eliminate bias. We’ve introduced programs that attract diverse talent and we continuously seek to create hiring experiences that are fair, transparent and accessible by all
- We are working on creating a transparent framework for how we grow and develop talent in a scaling organisation. This will include bringing more clarity on internal career opportunities and provide clear expectations on the behaviours we want to see aligned to our values and commitment to building an inclusive organisation
- We have introduced systematic processes to help ensure compensation decisions are data-driven, fair and competitive. We have also invested in Reward capability and expertise to ensure we bring pay equity into every step of the employee journey
- Thanks to these employee-led groups we have been able to further our efforts in voluntary diversity data collection this year, to develop support for parents and carers, offer community mentoring opportunities in partnership with Career Accelerator, help to raise awareness and empathy during significant events of the past year, and importantly, offer more employees a community of people with whom they share experiences and interests
- To strengthen our commitment to D&I we have recently appointed our first Director of Diversity & Inclusion, an experienced culture change leader, which will allow us to have a more strategic and systematic approach to building a diverse and inclusive organisation for the long term and as we scale
- The Director will work with the executive team and ERGs to define clear D&I targets that GoCardless will commit to achieving over the next three years, and to develop a structured roadmap of initiatives aligned with those targets
- This will create greater clarity and accountability across the entire organisation on D&I progress
- We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of June 2022 - Female Employees - 46% - Ethnic background - 32% - Identify as LGBTQIA - 10% - Neurodivergent - 9%
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