About this role
Role Overview
- Ensure the company and Foundations operate within compliance standards, including AML and KYC on nonprofits and prospective partners.
- Monitor regulatory developments.
- Oversee and monitor compliance systems, escalating any abuse instances for appropriate action.
- Implement and maintain compliance policies, frameworks, and procedures in line with business requirements, including transaction monitoring and enhanced due diligence on high-risk transactions and donors.
- Oversee a compliance function to ensure Goodstack can successfully and responsibly scale disbursements to nonprofits and meet partners’ requirements.
- Lead ongoing development of compliance systems, including procedures and training programmes.
- Conduct regular compliance monitoring and testing to ensure procedures are working.
- Prepare reports for management and regulators.
- Investigate and resolve compliance incidents or complaints.
- Create and lead a team of junior compliance staff.
- Act as a point of escalation for complex compliance issues.
Requirements
- 5+ years in compliance, ideally in fintech, payments, or mission-driven orgs.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of AML, KYC, and Enhanced Due Diligence; you’ve built or scaled these before.
- Solid grasp of global regulatory standards, and you know how to stay ahead of changes.
- Experience running risk monitoring, spotting red flags, and managing incidents with calm and clarity.
- Strong communicator; you can make complex things simple and lead with confidence.
- Startup-ready: proactive, resourceful, and excited to build from the ground up.
Benefits
- Salary reviews and share options
- Goodstack’s Workplace Giving
- Vitality Plus
- Private health insurance
- £250 Brighten your day annual budget
- £1000 Learning & development annual budget
- Goodstack library
- Tasty Tuesday! Office lunch is on the company
- Slow run club Wednesday
- Paid days off to volunteer for non-profit causes
- Paid days to attend conferences
- Paid day off on your birthday!
- 25 days annual leave, plus paid public holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Paid wellness leave
- Parental leave
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Pension (with tax-efficient salary sacrifice option)
- UK cycle-to-work scheme
- Ecologi carbon offsetting
- Flexible working hours
- WFH budget upon joining
- You're always welcome to pop in more often if you enjoy the buzz of being in the office. It's a warm, friendly space right in the heart of London
- … and so much more