Trade Compliance Manager

Worldpay
United States, Ohio, Cincinnati
Apr 16, 2025
Job Description JR0605214 Trade Compliance Manager Are you ready to unleash your full potential? We're looking for people who are passionate about payments to chart Worldpay's path to being the largest and most-loved payments company in the world. About the team: Worldpay Corporate Compliance partners with market and product teams to provide clarity on regulatory requirements and develop solutions to maintain compliance. The team possesses deep expertise in global payments, licensing, financial crime investigation, and specialized regulatory areas, making them well-equipped to handle complex compliance challenges. About the role: This role will require an experienced Compliance leader, with deep knowledge of the evolving regulatory trade landscape, particularly as it relates to fintech/merchant acquiring, and with high-risk merchant verticals/segments, to include maintaining knowledge of potential product functionality (i.e. - global software products) that may trigger regulatory classification obligations, or licensing. What you will be doing Responsible for U.S. and Canada import/export functions, including trade and cargo security and regulatory compliance with Customs authorities and collaborating with other regional trade compliance counterparts in EMEA, LATAM, and APAC. Provide guidance to team members in their day-to-day compliance matters, including documentation, customer and transaction screening, export control classification number (ECCN)/dual use classification, HTS classification, country of origin, Customs valuation, end-use/user restrictions, export license determinations, and license applications, and entry reconciliations. Monitor updates on import and export laws and regulations. Assess the impact on the company and its subsidiary systems and processes. Propose modifications to processes and procedures as necessary to ensure compliance. Manage Customs Brokerage processes. Manage broker relationships. Conduct pre and post entry compliance reviews and continuous improvement feedback loops with brokers. Manage recordkeeping program. Maintain trade key performance indicators (KPIs). Review, maintain, and support Trade Compliance procedures and provide training and bring awareness to the organization. Ensure data integrity related to tariff classification, country of origin, and value information declared to Customs authorities. Monitor all travel requests and report to appropriate leadership in a timely manner. Conduct internal trade compliance risk assessments and report findings to appropriate leadership. Act as a subject matter expert on global import/export. Establishes operational objectives and work plans. Develops, modifies and executes company policies that affect immediate operations. Oversees development and implementation of compliance program policies and standards as well as addressing other required regulatory policies. Responds to issues and matters pertaining to regulatory compliance of Worldpay products, services and business activities. Performs periodic reviews and evaluations of Worldpay products, services and business activities to validate compliance with applicable laws and regulations or detect regulatory violations, weak controls or other potential areas of exposure. Assists in providing final disposition of any discrepancies regarding compliance issues. Ensures strategic objectives of the Compliance & Ethics Program are met, including execution of risk assessment activities, coordination of risk response and program testing and validation. Identifies key business processes, performs evaluations of risk, assesses the effectiveness of controls and promotes improvement across the organization through the deployment of risk response activities. Designs and deploys processes to validate Worldpay products, services and business activities meet all applicable regulatory requirements. Participates in corporate development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs and people. Creates and delivers training to other business areas to increase compliance awareness. Develops and motivates staff. Maintains knowledge of applicable laws and regulations. Offers guidance on implementing regulatory changes. Communicates detailed requirements to line of business, validate solution approach and monitor status. Provides compliance reviews and direction for new and expanding products and services. Conducts compliance assessments and provides direction on any deficiencies detected by those assessments. Meets with business unit Compliance Officers on a regular basis for status updates on compliance issues. Monitors line of business compliance activities to verify that regulatory compliance deadlines and requirements are met. Participates in training promoting compliance awareness. Identifies areas of potential improvement. Provides updates for periodic reports. Interfaces with legal counsel and federal, state, and local agencies, as needed to address regulatory or compliance issues, concerns or questions. Assists the business with responses to customer compliance-specific questions and concerns. Participates with and/or leads customer focus and advisory groups. Prepares and approves internal and customer communications covering compliance issues (bulletins, position statements, monthly reports, etc. Other related duties assigned as needed. What you Bring Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is required Minimum of 5 years import, export, and customs experience required; experience in the Fintech industry preferred Extensive knowledge of international trade and US custom issues, such as Harmonized Tariff Classification System (HTS), customs valuation, preferential trade agreements, and Rules for Country of Origin required Knowledge of MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) required Certified Customs Specialist (CCS) certification preferred What we offer you A competitive salary and benefits A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in the payment industry Time to support charities and give back in your community #LI-BJ1 Privacy Statement Worldpay is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how Worldpay protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice. EEOC Statement Worldpay is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here. For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Sourcing Model Recruitment at Worldpay works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. Worldpay does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.