We are seeking a visionary and experienced leader to take on the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at our office in Dublin, Ireland.
As the CEO of our Irish entity, you will hold the executive responsibility for the strategic leadership, commercial growth, operational execution, and regulatory compliance.
Key Executive & Regulatory Responsibilities
1. Strategic Leadership & Commercial Execution
- Drive commercial scale: Deliver sustainable volume growth across merchant pipelines while balancing risk thresholds.
- Maintain local substance: Directing core financial, technical, risk, and operational decisions from within Ireland.
2. Risk Management & Card Scheme Compliance
- Enforce operational resilience: Oversee strict compliance with the EBA Guidelines on ICT and Security Risk Management to prevent transaction processing downtime, data breaches, and single points of technical failure.
- Oversee financial crime frameworks: Partner with the Head of anti-money laundering (AML) to maintain institutional-grade AML and anti-fraud filters.
3. CBI Engagement & Consumer Culture
- Lead regulatory relations: Act as the primary executive point of contact for the Central Bank of Ireland, ensuring open, transparent, and prompt disclosure of operational incidents or material breaches.
- Embed consumer protection: Champion a firm-wide consumer-centric culture that aligns with the CBI Consumer Protection Code, ensuring fair pricing transparency and clear merchant service charge (MSC) disclosures.
Individual Accountability & Conduct Framework
As the highest-ranking executive, the CEO is bound by the Individual Accountability Framework (IAF) and must champion its execution across the entity:
- Comprehensive Responsibilities Statements: The CEO must sign and maintain a clear Statement of Responsibilities (SoR) and a firm-wide Management Responsibilities Map (MRM) under SEAR.
- Controlled Delegation: Ensure every executive function within the firm has clear, non-overlapping delegated boundaries and formal reporting lines.
- Fitness & Probity (F&P): Must satisfy ongoing F&P criteria. The appointee cannot act in the role until the CBI issues written pre-approval following an intensive Individual Questionnaire (IQ) review and interview process.
Role Requirements & Competencies
- Proven CEO Track Record: Minimum of 8–10 years of C-suite executive experience within a high-volume merchant acquiring firm, payment service provider, or transaction-banking institution.
- Deep Acquiring Expertise: Complete mastery of cross-border merchant settlement infrastructure, card scheme compliance matrices, and digital merchant onboarding strategies.
- Regulatory Stature: Demonstrable experience navigating European financial regulators (CBI, FCA, or equivalent) and managing complex audit closures.
- Educational Background: Advanced degree in Business, Finance, Law, or a highly technical field; equivalent professional payment industry qualifications are highly regarded.
- Location & Travel: Based full-time at the firm's headquarters in Ireland, with international travel as required for scheme governance and group alignment.
About Unipaas
Unipaas is a fast-growing fintech company building AI-native embedded payment solutions for SaaS platforms. We help software companies embed payments directly into their products, unlock new revenue streams, improve customer experience, and automate complex financial operations.
Our platform supports end-to-end payment flows, including onboarding, processing, payouts, reconciliation, compliance, and support — all delivered as a fully managed, white-label solution.
We work with vertical SaaS platforms across sectors such as education, care, fitness, health, and professional services, enabling them to turn payments into a strategic growth engine.
At Unipaas, we combine fintech, SaaS, AI, and deep product innovation to shape the future of embedded financial services.
