Card Scheme Compliance Manager

About the role

A digital banking platform serving businesses and individuals, offering payment accounts, cards and digital tools for international money management, is looking for a Card Scheme Compliance Manager. The role takes ownership of a developing card scheme compliance function with a direct impact on card operations: turning changing scheme rules into practical requirements, coordinating implementation across skilled teams and helping deliver changes on time.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor Visa and Mastercard rules, mandates and bulletins and 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 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, keep documentation current and track changes across teams, reporting progress and risks to management.

Required profile

• 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.
• English and Russian; compliance experience is a plus.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of card transaction data and message fields, such as ISO 8583.
• Structured approach, attention to detail, clear communication and stakeholder management.
• Strong coordination, prioritisation and follow-up, balancing 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.