As Zepto moves into its next phase of growth, a strategic decision has been made to unbundle its Risk & Compliance and Legal functions.
In this new structure, Skye Roberts will lead Compliance, Risk, Fraud and Financial Crime as Zepto's Head of Risk & Compliance, reporting directly to the CEO. Taking on direct leadership of the company's Risk & Compliance team, Skye now operates as a key senior leader at Zepto. One of the first items on her new agenda will be attending the Australian Financial Crime Summit in Sydney. The summit unites Australia's regulatory authorities and industry trailblazers, and is dedicated to safeguarding Australia's status as a trusted financial hub.
"Risk culture and governance are always front of mind at Zepto and are foundations to our success. I am thrilled to be taking on this impactful role and work with our amazing team at Zepto."
An admired professional with international experience, Skye's career has included roles at the ACCC in Canberra, ASIC in Melbourne and Brisbane, the Financial Conduct Authority in London, and Hume Bank in Albury. In addition, she holds Non-Executive Director roles at BeyondHousing and the Regional Disability Advocacy Service on the other side of the mighty Murray River in Wodonga.
"To enable superior onboarding and scaling experiences for our large enterprise customers, we're carving out a new space for Risk & Compliance at Zepto. It's a move designed to accelerate our next phase of business, and I look forward to working directly with Skye moving forward."
Responsibility for Zepto's Legal function will remain with the company's General Counsel & Company Secretary, Sarah Davoren.
"Sarah has tirelessly led the Compliance & Risk function in her remit of General Counsel since 2022. Her focus now will be leading the Legal function. She will lead the extremely valuable legal work to be undertaken on our Commercial, Corporate and Regulatory roadmaps that will set us up for long term success," added Jewell.
To strengthen both of these functional areas, they are being resourced with new hires: Senior Legal Counsel (Regulatory); Fraud & Financial Crime Manager; and a Financial Crime Compliance Analyst. Click through to our Careers page to view all available roles at Zepto.
Zepto’s founders started their entrepreneurial journey together operating a large skydiving enterprise in Byron Bay. The company is still headquartered in Byron Bay, but has a distributed workforce all around Australia.
"The advantage we had from the get-go is that we didn't start out as bankers trying to solve a merchant problem. We started with an intimate understanding of what merchants need because we started off as merchants ourselves. Payments had frustrated us immensely – perhaps more than anything else in business."
Their experience as merchants gave them a unique perspective on the daily payment challenges faced by Australian businesses. They have unpacked a real-life merchant experience into a payment solutions tech-infrastructure company on a mission to enable large enterprise businesses to freely devise their own innovative, account-to-account payment experiences.
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