Deputy Head of MLRO (DMLRO) and Compliance

The world of payment processing is rapidly evolving, and businesses are looking for loyal and strategic partners, to help them grow. 

Meet Nuvei, Nuvei is the global fintech building the infrastructure for every payment, everywhere. Its modular, flexible, and scalable technology enables leading companies to accept next-generation payments, offer all payout options, and benefit from card issuing, banking, risk, and fraud management services. Connecting businesses to their customers in more than 200 markets, with local acquiring in 52 markets, 150 currencies, and over 720 alternative payment methods, Nuvei provides the technology and insights for customers and partners to succeed locally and globally through one integration. 

At Nuvei, we live our core values, and we thrive on solving complex problems. We’re dedicated to continually improving our product and providing relentless customer service.   We are always looking for exceptional talent to join us on the journey!

Your Mission

As DMLRO and Compliance Manager for Nuvei Financial Services Ltd (NFS), Nuvei’s FCA-regulated UK e-money institution, you will play a key role in supporting the ongoing effectiveness of the firm’s financial crime and broader regulatory compliance framework.

Reporting to the Deputy Chief Compliance Officer (DCCO), you will act as a senior compliance and financial crime specialist, supporting oversight of NFS’s AML/CTF arrangements, regulatory obligations, and day-to-day compliance advisory activity. You will also provide practical leadership across key compliance workstreams, helping ensure that regulatory requirements are embedded in a proportionate, operationally effective, and defensible manner.

The role will support NFS across a broad compliance agenda, including AML and financial crime controls, suspicious activity escalation, customer risk assessment, safeguarding, operational resilience, regulatory reporting, governance, policy implementation, and regulatory change.

This is a hands-on role suited to an experienced compliance professional with strong UK regulatory knowledge, sound financial crime judgement, and the ability to translate regulatory expectations into practical business controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the DCCO in overseeing the effectiveness of the firm’s AML/CTF, sanctions, suspicious activity reporting, and wider financial crime framework.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex financial crime matters, including onboarding, customer risk assessment, periodic reviews, event-driven reviews, transaction monitoring, PEPs, sanctions, and adverse media.
• Provide practical compliance advice and challenge across NFS on key FCA obligations, including EMR/PSR requirements, safeguarding, operational resilience, complaints, and wider systems and controls.
• Support the ongoing development, implementation, and maintenance of compliance and financial crime policies, procedures, risk assessments, controls, and training.
• Assist in preparing effective Board, committee, senior management, and regulatory reporting, ensuring key risks, issues, and remediation actions are clearly articulated.
• Support engagement with the FCA, auditors, and independent reviewers, including regulatory requests, inspections, reviews, and tracking remediation activity through to completion.
• Work closely with first-line teams, including Underwriting, Risk, Product, Finance, and Commercial, to embed proportionate, risk-based, and operationally effective compliance controls.
• Contribute to the continued enhancement of NFS’s compliance framework through regulatory horizon scanning, control improvements, MI development, and oversight of emerging risks and regulatory change.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years of compliance experience in financial services, preferably within fintech, payments, banking, or digital asset environments.
• Strong experience in financial services compliance and/or financial crime, ideally within a UK payments, e-money, acquiring, fintech, or banking environment.
• Prior experience in a Deputy MLRO, MLRO support, senior financial crime, or compliance management role.
• Sound working knowledge of the UK AML/CTF regulatory framework, including the Money Laundering Regulations, JMLSG guidance, sanctions expectations, suspicious activity reporting, and risk-based customer due diligence.
• Good understanding of FCA requirements applicable to payment institutions and e-money institutions, including regulatory governance, systems and controls, safeguarding, and operational resilience.
• Experience providing second-line advice and challenge across onboarding, client risk assessment, transaction monitoring, periodic review, and event-driven review processes.
• Ability to review complex casework and make balanced, well-reasoned, documented risk decisions.
• Experience supporting regulatory engagement, audit activity, action plans, and senior governance reporting.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Tertiary qualifications in Law, Finance, Business, or a related field; certifications such as ACAMS, ICA, or equivalent professional credentials are advantageous.

Nuvei is an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates collaboration and innovation and is committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace. The team at Nuvei is comprised of a wealth of talent, skill, and ambition. We believe that employees are happiest when they’re empowered to be their true, authentic selves. So, please come as you are. We can’t wait to meet you.  

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Eye Care
• Pension Scheme
• Income Protection
• Parental Leave

Working Language 

• English (written and spoken) is the language used most of the time, as work colleagues, clients, and strategic suppliers are geographically dispersed. 

Our recruitment process may use automated tools, including AI, to support application management and candidate shortlisting.