About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as the Head of Remote Payment Services UK, joining our Payments & Fintech department.

We are strengthening our Financial Services subgroup within Remote. This subgroup has acquired financial licenses in the Netherlands, UK, and Canada to support Remote’s growth in Payroll in these regions. This position is going to oversee the Operational aspects of our UK regulated payment entity, and will be an integral member of a growing organization that allows people from all over the world access global work opportunities.

UK represents a significant growth opportunity for Remote across all its products, and we need a highly driven self-starter to be the face of Remote with the local regulators. You will be the day to day lead for the entity liaise with the regulators, stay abreast of regulatory changes, and ensure that Remote always meets regulatory expectations.

What you bring

7+ years payments experience in Strategy, Legal, Operations, or Entity management departments, preferably in the payments infrastructure or mass payout solution spaces
5+ years experience with a Payments Institution, or electronic Money Institution regulated by the FCA
Understanding of UK financial legislation
Good understanding of payments products and solutions across the board, at feature level and/or a good understanding of businesses in the payments ecosystem
Effective communicator, with experience in managing and influencing internal and external stakeholders
Commercial outlook with ability to assess comprehensive impacts to the business
Strong project and stakeholder management skills. Consistent track record leading complex projects across large and distributed organizations
Strong analytical mindset, able to use data to tell a story. Must be a confident self-starter
Must be a UK resident
Writes and speaks fluent English
It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus

Key Responsibilities

End to end ownership of all processes and functions related to running Remote’s UK payments entities. Represent Remote externally with regulators, government officials and industry bodies
Act as the Entity head of the UK entity, being the primary DRI for ensuring the entity meets its growth goals while meeting all regulatory expectations. As the head of the executive management of the company, oversee all the risk, payment operations, product, and IT functions. Lead the monthly/quarterly Management board meetings
Work closely with the UK Head of Compliance and MLRO to foster and build close relationship with the regulators, and ensure the payments entities remain compliant with regulatory requirements
Lead Payment Entity Board meetings (agenda, materials, and minutes). Ensure the Boards are fully equipped to supervise the business of the entity and its financial affairs.
Act as a key representative for operational audits & exams ensuring detailed planning and preparation ahead of time. Develop Remote’s own internal policies to ensure adherence to audit requirements
Develop detailed understanding and aligned plans for all activities performed by the entity to anticipate and mitigate risks. Implement, maintain and develop an adequate and efficient internal control system.
Deeply understand the regulatory requirements on Remote’s product design. Integrate cross functionally, working closely across Legal, Compliance, Tax, Product, Finance, Payments, and senior management to ensure current regulatory requirements are understood as they apply to Remote and fulfilled with future requirements adequately planned for
Deliver strong, clear governance as required by external regulations and internal Remote policies
Note: As Head of the Entity you will be asked to be registered as a PSD individual with the FCA

Practicals

You'll report to: General Manager, Remote Payment Services
Direct reports: 3 reports (future state)
Team: Operations - Payments: Part of ~10 person central regulatory team, and ~10 people UK entity team
Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritize applications from the UK.
Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

Interview with recruiter
Interview with future manager
Interview with team members (no managers present)
Bar Raiser Interview
Prior employment verification check

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is

£92,450—£104,000 GBP

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

work from anywhere
flexible paid time off
flexible working hours (we are async)
16 weeks paid parental leave
mental health support services
stock options
learning budget
home office budget & IT equipment
budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.

Head of Remote Payment Services UK

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