Daniel Mead
London
Summary
A self-motivated compliance professional with over 10 years of experience in a wide variety of compliance functions within the payments industry. Extensive experience of assessing financial crime risks and building risk-based policies, procedures and systems in order to mitigate risk. Track record of building productive relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders to help facilitate company growth in a compliant manner.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Head of Compliance (MLRO)
Amaiz
01.2022 - 04.2025
- Controlling and monitoring effective business systems, processes and procedures to satisfy the obligations placed upon the company as an UK FCA regulated entity.
- Overseeing the compilation and delivery of policies and procedures that implement the requirements of the FCA and all applicable regulations and legal obligations.
- Writing or revising relevant compliance policies and procedures to adapt to regulatory and business changes.
- Working alongside all areas and levels of the business to provide support, advice and practical assistance.
- Ensuring that the Board, Directors and Senior Management have sufficient information and are kept informed of the issues affecting the effectiveness of compliance and any risk exposure that may have been identified.
- On-going monitoring of the adequacy of processes and procedures to identify, assess and mitigate potential business risk.
- Implementing and overseeing an annual compliance plan. Identify risks, and develop and execute the Compliance Monitoring Programme within set timeframes and ensure that issues are escalated appropriately.
- Ensuring that processes and procedures include controls to deliver fair and unbiased treatment to clients and customers, including ways in which framework contracts are presented, complaints are handled, and financial promotions are advertised.
- Performing Compliance reviews and approvals of new products, services and outsourcing requests.
- Providing balanced advice that enables business development within a risk based approach delivered and supported by Senior Management and Directors.
Global Merchant Due Diligence Coordinator
Paysafe
02.2019 - 12.2021
- Manage various projects in relation to operational and regulatory compliance across the group.
- Keep up to date with regulatory changes and organise implementation of these changes into the business.
- Act as point of advisory for internal & external stakeholders on compliance related issues.
- Point of contact for external audit of merchant due diligence business unit.
Compliance Team Manager
Paysafe
02.2016 - 01.2019
- Lead and mentor team of 5 analysts in order to support merchant due diligence function.
- Liaise with sales/account management teams to ensure efficient onboarding/reviews of merchants.
- Implement account review process for portfolio of merchants.
- Produce overview of compliance progress for PLC board report.
- Provide guidance for sales and operational staff on compliance related matters.
- Built and managed periodic review process for portfolio of merchants.
Compliance Analyst
Paysafe
11.2014 - 02.2016
- Undertake reviews of new applications, changes requests tasks and ad hoc management requests and process within SLAs.
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholders in order to process tasks efficiently.
- Assist with implementing/enhancing processes.
Commercial Compliance Analyst
HSBC
02.2013 - 11.2014
- Update KYC profiles of commercial banking clients in accordance with the Group Policy.
- Assist with project requirements as directed by management and respond efficiently to ad hoc requests.
- Perform research via internal & external sources and verify documentation in accordance with regulatory and internal requirements.
- Complete assurance checks of completed KYC profiles.
- Point of contact for escalations.
Sales Adviser
Lloyds Banking Group
07.2011 - 06.2012
- Accurately describe features and benefits of products to prospective customers.
- Provide information and guidance with regards to documents to customers.
- Ensure newly opened accounts are funded in a timely manner.
- Pro-actively chase a pipeline of clients to maximise sales opportunities.
- Reached sales target every quarter. Exceeded 130% of quarterly target 6 times.
- Exceeded balance attraction target in all quarters, totaling £24million in new funds to the bank.
- Exceeded target in funded accounts in all quarters, 80% of open accounts were funded.
Credit Officer - International Mortgages
Lloyds Banking Group
02.2009 - 07.2011
- Processing of mortgage applications.
- Analysing due diligence documents to ensure they coincide with information on mortgage application and meet regulatory requirements.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders and external customers.
- Providing clear and concise information regarding documents to customers.
- Arrange property valuations for prospective clients.
- My time with the Credit Team also included a 6 month secondment to Lloyds TSB in London.
International Banking Adviser (Secondment)
Lloyds Banking Group
11.2008 - 02.2009
- Dealing with day to day banking enquiries by telephone, email, writing and face to face.
- Following up on account servicing issues to ensure they are resolved in a timely manner.
- Providing assistance and training to my colleagues.
Onboarding Specialist
Lloyds Banking Group
11.2006 - 11.2008
- Completing checks on documents/applications to ensure they meet the banks criteria.
- Completing enhanced background checks on customers where applicable.
- Liaising with internal stakeholders & customers for efficient processing of applications.
Administrative Assistant
Lloyds Banking Group
09.2004 - 11.2006
- Opening and sorting daily incoming post.
- Organising workloads and placing them with relevant teams.
- Loading new applications onto admin systems.
- Completing initial background checks for new applicants.
Education
High School -
Ballakermeen High School
01.1998 - 01.2004
Skills
- Policy creation and implementation
- Experience with KYC/KYB procedures
- Compliance leadership
- Anti-Money laundering expertise
- Internal investigations handling
- Internal audit coordination
- Process improvement strategies
- Training and mentoring
Certification
- Role of MLRO (CCL)
- AML Fundamentals & Cryptoassets, Elliptic
- Certificate in Financial Crime Prevention, International Compliance Association
- NVQ Customer Service, Lloyds Banking Group
Timeline
Head of Compliance (MLRO)
Amaiz
01.2022 - 04.2025
Global Merchant Due Diligence Coordinator
Paysafe
02.2019 - 12.2021
Compliance Team Manager
Paysafe
02.2016 - 01.2019
Compliance Analyst
Paysafe
11.2014 - 02.2016
Commercial Compliance Analyst
HSBC
02.2013 - 11.2014
Sales Adviser
Lloyds Banking Group
07.2011 - 06.2012
Credit Officer - International Mortgages
Lloyds Banking Group
02.2009 - 07.2011
International Banking Adviser (Secondment)
Lloyds Banking Group
11.2008 - 02.2009
Onboarding Specialist
Lloyds Banking Group
11.2006 - 11.2008
Administrative Assistant
Lloyds Banking Group
09.2004 - 11.2006
High School -
Ballakermeen High School
01.1998 - 01.2004
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