• Ramp is seeking a second-line Compliance Strategist to provide dedicated independent assurance across Ramp’s UK and Irish regulated businesses
• This is a hands-on role for someone who can turn regulatory expectations into a practical, evidence-led monitoring and assurance programme
• The role sits within Ramp’s Europe Compliance function and supports the Head of Compliance & MLRO - Europe. You will not own first-line operational decisions or perform routine casework. Instead, you will independently test and challenge the design and operation of financial-crime, safeguarding, payments, outsourcing, governance, and regulatory-change controls. You will make sure that findings are understood, remediated by accountable owners, and independently validated before closure
• Ramp Payments Europe is developing across multiple legal entities, jurisdictions, payment rails, banking partners, product journeys, and shared Group services. The successful candidate will help give management and Boards a clear, reliable view of whether controls work in practice and where action is needed
• Run a practical, risk-based compliance monitoring programme across Ramp’s European entities
• Test key controls and identify gaps, with a focus on whether they work in practice
• Support assurance over financial-crime, payments, safeguarding, and outsourced-service controls
• Track regulatory, Board, partner, audit, and internal commitments to ensure actions are completed on time
• Manage findings and remediation, helping accountable teams resolve issues and confirming actions are closed
• Produce clear reporting for management and Boards on key risks, control issues, incidents, and progress
• Provide independent compliance input and advice on significant product, payments, outsourcing, and operational changes
• Deputise for the Head of Compliance & MLRO where required

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• One Medical Membership
• 401(k) including an employer match
• Parental leave
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Unlimited PTO
• Relocation support to move to NYC
• WFH stipend
• Pet Insurance

• 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