Card Scheme Compliance Manager
Lead compliance efforts to ensure seamless card scheme operations in a fast-growing digital banking platform 🚀
About the Client
Our client is a digital banking platform serving businesses and individual users. It offers payment accounts, cards and digital tools for managing money internationally.
Role Overview
Take ownership of a developing card scheme compliance function with a direct impact on card operations. You will turn changing scheme rules into practical requirements, coordinate implementation across skilled teams and help deliver changes on time.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor Visa and Mastercard rules, mandates and bulletins. Assess their impact on card issuing and acquiring beyond traditional AML compliance.
- Review technical and business processes to identify gaps against current scheme requirements.
- Manage scheme-driven changes from impact assessment to go-live within required deadlines, including changes to transaction message fields.
- Translate scheme requirements into clear technical tasks for IT, Reconciliation and other teams.
- Serve as the main contact for payment schemes and card processors on requirements, clarifications and implementation.
- Embed scheme requirements in internal processes and keep documentation current.
- Track changes across teams and report progress and risks to management.
Requirements
- Proven technical business analysis experience in card payments, or comparable experience working with card schemes.
- Hands-on experience tracking and implementing Visa and Mastercard rules and mandates.
- Practical technical and business knowledge of card issuing and acquiring.
- Experience working directly with payment schemes, card processors and internal IT teams to deliver changes.
- Experience writing technical requirements and task specifications for IT and Reconciliation teams.
- Working knowledge of card transaction data and message fields, such as ISO 8583.
- Compliance experience is a plus.
- Languages: English , Russian .
Key Soft Skills
- Independence and ownership when navigating unfamiliar processes.
- A structured approach and attention to detail.
- Clear communication and stakeholder management across technical and business teams.
- Strong coordination, prioritisation and follow-up.
- The ability to balance scheme requirements with business objectives.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary aligned with experience
- Collaborative and transparent team culture
- High-impact role in a scaling fintech company
- Recognition of personal milestones and achievements
- Social benefits
- Department
- Join Risk and Compliance
- Role
- Compliance Officer
- Location
- Cyprus
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Compensation Package
- to be discussed
About Evotym
Evotym is dedicated to building exceptional teams for fast growing companies.
As a leading Staffing and Recruitment agency, we connect top-tier talent with trusted Fintech and iGaming companies, driving their success and growth. Our expertise in the sector allows us to understand its unique challenges and opportunities, ensuring we match the best-fit candidates with our clients.
Join us and be part of a dynamic team and make an impact in the Fintech and iGaming industries.