Scaling Fintech Hiring for PayDo
PayDo is a Fintech company providing an all-in-one digital payment platform for businesses and individuals. The product combines business and personal accounts, checkout solutions, mass payments, and corporate cards within a single dashboard. Operating in a highly regulated environment, PayDo required a hiring partner capable of scaling critical functions without compromising compliance, risk management, or operational quality. The company partnered with OnHires to design and execute a structured, multiregional hiring program focused on compliance-driven and operational roles.
Client:
PayDo
Industry:
FinTech
Country:
United Kingdom, Western Europe
Service:
Recruitment
Background
PayDo was entering an active growth phase and needed to strengthen its internal structure across compliance, finance, risk, and operations. Hiring decisions had a direct impact on regulatory readiness, internal controls, and long-term scalability.
The internal team required external hiring expertise to manage parallel openings, align stakeholders, and maintain a consistent hiring process across all roles.
Challenges
Scaling hiring in Fintech presented several challenges related to talent availability, regulatory expertise, and decision-making complexity.
Limited availability of senior compliance and risk specialists in Fintech
Multiple business-critical roles open in parallel across functions
High competition for experienced candidates in regulated markets
Distributed decision-making with multiple internal stakeholders
Need for consistent evaluation criteria and clear hiring signals per role
Solution
OnHires designed and executed a structured hiring framework tailored specifically to Fintech and regulated environments, focusing on speed, clarity, and quality of signal.
Built role-specific sourcing strategies and market maps
Developed calibrated scorecards aligned with compliance and risk requirements
Structured interview stages to reduce bias and improve decision speed
Ran weekly hiring operations with clear ownership and fast feedback loops
Managed offer negotiations, compensation localization, and onboarding coordination
Results
The structured hiring approach allowed PayDo to scale critical roles efficiently while maintaining high quality and regulatory standards.
57% faster time-to-hire
8 hires completed across multiple functions
Improved first-round pass rates through upfront role calibration
Reduced hiring friction across compliance and operational teams
Improved alignment between hiring managers and leadership
Stronger long-term hiring framework for regulated roles
The collaboration established a repeatable hiring process that PayDo can reuse for future growth across regulated and operational functions.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Finance Officer
Head of Risk and Compliance
Full-cycle Talent Acquisition Specialist
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Additional roles were successfully closed across support, legal, and marketing functions.
"OnHires helped us scale several business-critical roles in a highly regulated Fintech environment. The team brought structure, clarity, and speed to the hiring process, while maintaining a strong focus on compliance and quality."
Chief Executive Officer
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