The opportunity
Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.
What you'll do
Lead and develop a global team. Manage, coach, and develop team members: across regions, establishing clear responsibilities, priorities, and development opportunities. Balance planned assurance work with incoming scheme requests and emerging priorities.
Own the governance framework. Define and maintain consistent standards for: scheme, debit network, and alternative payment method compliance documentation, control mapping, evidence management, issue tracking, and reporting across the program pillars.
Lead audit and assessment coordination. Oversee Scheme Compliance’s: participation in scheme and local payment method audits, assessments, and due diligence reviews. Coordinate scope, subject-matter contributions, evidence, responses, and follow-up with accountable stakeholders.
Oversee control mapping and testing. Lead the mapping of scheme and payment: method requirements to internal policies and controls. Establish a risk-based testing plan with Internal Controls and pillar leads, ensuring control gaps are documented, assessed, and escalated.
Serve as the global governance point of contact. Act as the central interface: for scheme Risk and Compliance counterparts, connecting the appropriate regional and subject-matter owners while maintaining a consistent global approach.
Manage scheme communications and RFIs. Oversee the intake, routing,: coordination, and quality review of scheme and local payment method communications and requests for information. Ensure responses are accurate, consistent, appropriately reviewed, and delivered on time.
What they're looking for
- Lead recurring scheme governance engagements. Own the preparation and: coordination of weekly business reviews (WBRs), quarterly business reviews (QBRs), and annual meetings, including agendas, reporting, stakeholder preparation, and tracking of decisions and commitments.
- Partner on assurance and remediation. Work closely with Internal Audit and: Internal Controls to align assurance activities, support independent reviews, and reduce unnecessary duplication. Challenge remediation plans, monitor progress, and escalate overdue actions or unresolved risks.
- Own committee and board reporting. Lead the preparation, consolidation, and: delivery of Scheme Compliance reporting to committees, boards, and management forums across all regions and management levels. Ensure reporting provides a clear, consistent view of compliance risks, control effectiveness, audit findings, remediation progress, and scheme commitments, with appropriate escalation of matters requiring attention or decisions.
- Own the global scheme bulletin intake and update process. Oversee the intake,: tracking, distribution, and status reporting of bulletins and rule updates from all schemes globally. Ensure relevant owners assess applicability and impact, establish required actions and deadlines, and provide evidence of completion. Maintain a consolidated view of progress and escalate gaps, delays, or unresolved ownership.
