Company Mission

Payhawk is a leading global spend management solution for scaling businesses. Headquartered in London and combining company cards, reimbursable expenses and accounts payable into a single product; its future-facing technology enables finance teams to control and automate company spending at scale.

The Payhawk customer base includes fast-growing and mature multinational companies in 32 countries including LuxAir, Quantive, and Wagestream. With offices in New York, London, Berlin, Munich , Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Vilnius and Sofia; Payhawk is backed by renowned investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks, QED Investors, Earlybird Digital East, and Eleven Ventures.

Our values include supporting flat hierarchies, taking ownership and responsibility, seeking and providing feedback, managing constructive critique, and speaking our minds. We understand that the best ideas don’t all come from the same place, so we encourage diversity and inclusion in all areas of our work.

The future of fintech is about more than money, and we believe in work-life balance, continual learning, and empowered teams. We’re also on a journey to improve our environmental and social impact and become B Corp certified. From virtual cards to digital subscriptions, our software and automation help take paper out of the equation for our customers, too.

We’re changing the world of payments, and we’re looking for an exceptional team to help us.

About the Role

The Quality Assurance Lead (QA) will be part of the Compliance organisation, and more closely working with the Head of Compliance. This role is required to execute the firm’s strategy in accordance with regulatory expectations and industry best practices. The focus is to conduct ongoing sample testing on the due diligence procedures both the Monitoring and KYC teams conduct, handling partner audits and reviews, as well as identifying and suggesting process improvements

Responsibilities

• Ongoing Sample Testing of KYC Onboarding and Transactions Monitoring processes
• Suggest process, policy and procedures improvements
• Risk assessment of current processes
• Report to Head of Compliance and MLROs any information related to potentially fraudulent activity.
• Suggest process improvements where required
• Handling end-to-end partner Audits & Reviews

Requirements

• At least 4 years of Quality assurance experience in AML operations
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English
• Readiness to run quality assurance on KYC and Transactions Monitoring processes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Law or Finance or any related field.
• Ownership and entrepreneurship, positive attitude, energy, openness to feedback, comfortable with a fast-changing environment
• A great initiative taker, ability to initiate projects through ideas that have a high business contribution
• Team-oriented with strong interpersonal skills

Company Benefits

• 30 days holiday paid leave
• Competitive compensation package
• Exchange policy to another Payhawk office (London, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam)
• Flexible working hours and opportunity to work from home
• Regular team-wide events
• Additional Medical care
• Company office massages
• Opportunity to use the Payhawk product with monthly commuting allowance

Payhawk is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.