Compliance Specialist

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

The role involves being a core part of the compliance operational team at onboarding. It entails performing KYC, CDD & EDD on new corporate and individual customers & assessing the risks presented against the Currencycloud risk appetite in each case and will report into the Onboarding Manager. This is a hybrid role with the requirement for you to attend our Paddington office Tuesdays - Thursdays. 

Roles & Responsibilities - more details: 

• Conduct a review of clients' applications at the point of onboarding  
• Assess and carry out appropriate customer due diligence (CDD) and know-your-customer (KYC) on new clients   
• Conduct sanction/PEP screening and investigate potential hits  
• Provide good client experience to stakeholders - being part of a smooth customer journey 
• Undertake assigned Compliance project work  
• Proactively escalate urgent cases to management for further review  

What skills are required: 

• Good business acumen - leveraging this to weigh up risks presented in each case 
• Highly analytical - using presented evidence / data to form an assessment on the risk 
• Excellent written communication - leveraging this to work with stakeholders and problem solve each case to deliver correct outcomes 
• Team player who enjoys learning new things, sharing knowledge and working with others to form correct outcomes on new applications 
• Being accountable and taking ownership of client applications from start to finish 

Qualifications

• At least 1 year's experience in a finance / compliance field
• University degree in business or sciences / equivalent
• Prior experience in a compliance onboarding function is preferred

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Client-provided location(s): London, United Kingdom

Job ID: 2cece594-5dfa-4ab9-a48c-9ea465b5e1e5

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-08T10:55:09