CDD Senior Associate - Gaming & Gambling

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for an experienced CDD Senior Associate - Gaming & Gambling to join our ever evolving team and help us unleash the potential of every business.

Location - London Based only - Hybrid working option available

Our Business Enablement Worldpayers are the engine that propels us forward. Their curiosity and openness to new ideas feed our strategic direction and ultimately make our vision a reality.

As a member of our Vertical Growth Enablement team, you will play a crucial role in safeguarding the company’s reputation and mitigating financial crime risks by conducting thorough investigations ensuring alignment with Worldpay policies and risk appetite.

What you'll own as the CDD Senior Associate - Gaming & Gambling 

Customer Due Diligence

• Perform customer due diligence (CDD) and enhanced due diligence (EDD) for merchants operating in the gaming and gambling vertical for Worldpay Gaming Solutions, LLC. This includes establishing customer profiles and ownership structures in line with Worldpay's policies.
• Identify complexities in this high-risk vertical and ensure the right skills, tools, and analytical methods are used for onboarding.
• Perform ongoing monitoring of existing customer relationships following trigger events or through scheduled periodic reviews.
• Collaborate with 2nd line Compliance, Risk and Legal to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and industry best practice whilst managing operational impact.
• Assess sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening hits, with particular attention to gaming industry connections and regulatory risk/violations, escalating findings where necessary.

Continuous Improvement

• Support the development of compliance and risk frameworks to enhance operational efficiency. This includes contribution to, or where necessary the creation of, practical controls and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Collaborate with commercial teams to identify and assess operational challenges related to Merchant growth, including monitoring and reporting. Balancing commercial objectives whilst maintaining operational adherence.
• Support and implement key initiatives across impacted Operational business units.

Relationship Management

• Develop and maintain an open and positive relationship with internal and external stakeholders, as necessary.
• Create a customer focused culture that has a clear understanding of risk and an innovative can-do mindset that achieves both the regulatory objectives and a good customer experience.

Training And Development

• Where necessary, attend and contribute to relevant meetings, such as those focused on risk and compliance to represent and understand the operational impact for strategic initiatives.
• Keep up with global regulatory changes to better understand operational risks.

What You'Ll Bring

Essential:

• 3 years of experience and strong knowledge in the application of customer due diligence, anti-money laundering or financial crime compliance within a regulated payments industry.
• A demonstrable understanding of American legal and regulatory gaming and gambling requirements pertaining to customer due diligence, Wolfsberg industry standards & card network rules.
• Experience in the payments industry.
• You have a strong practical understanding of the importance of a rigorous control environment.
• A strategic thinker with the ability to identify, mitigate and communicate risks and issues that could impact the organisation and the customer experience.
• Ability to build a positive culture of continuous improvement and learning, encouraging professional development opportunities and knowledge sharing initiatives.
• Ability to maintain strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, ensuring effective communication and alignment.
• Highly analytical and strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and make informed decisions.

Desirable:

• Working towards or committed to obtaining professional qualification(s) (e.g., ICA Certificate in AML, ACAMS).
• Experience with CDD/KYC tools such as Orbis, Actimize, Salesforce, or LexisNexis.

About The Team

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What makes a Worldpayer

What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions and finding creative solutions to simplify the complex.

We’re dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we’re determined, always staying open and winning and failing as one.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer. Apply now to write the next chapter in your career.

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