Oversee regulatory compliance across products and operations, assess risks and gaps, monitor European requirements, and partner with Product and Engineering to enable compliant innovation.
Business Compliance Manager - Payments
📜 Description
- Serve as the primary contact for financial regulators and supervisory authorities.
- Lead regulatory inspections, inquiries, audits, and supervisory engagements, including remediation programs.
- Coordinate cross-functional responses to regulatory requests and prepare submissions such as Client Money Policies and fund flow reports.
- Develop compliance frameworks for payment and fiat activities and assess payment partners and business relationships.
- Monitor regulatory developments, conduct gap analyses, and enhance compliance policies, procedures, and controls.
- Support payment licence expansion into new jurisdictions and embed regulatory requirements across business teams.
🛠️ Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Law, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Business Compliance, or related functions within regulated financial institutions.
- Demonstrated experience directly engaging with financial regulators and PSP/EMI/MSB type licensing frameworks. Crypto compliance expertise is an additional advantage
- Proven experience managing regulatory inspections, examinations, audits, and remediation programs.
- Proven experience leading policy development and compliance gap analysis initiatives.
- Experience in driving new licensing opportunities
✨ Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Company benefits
- Work-from-home arrangement, depending on business needs
Full job description
Responsibilities
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Act as the primary point of contact for financial regulators and supervisory authorities.
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Lead regulatory inspections, inquiries, audits, and ongoing supervisory engagements.
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Manage remediation programs arising from regulatory reviews, audits, or internal assessments.
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Coordinate cross-functional responses to regulatory requests and ensure timely delivery of required documentation.
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Draft and maintain regulatory submissions, including Client Money Policies, fund flow reports, risk assessments, and other regulatory documentation.
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Monitor regulatory developments and assess their impact on the business.
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Develop and maintain compliance frameworks supporting key payment and fiat activities
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Conduct compliance assessments of payment service providers, payment agents, settlement agents, and other financial partners.
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Perform due diligence and risk evaluations for payment-related business relationships.
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Ensure compliance with cross-border payment regulations and applicable financial crime requirements.
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Support and lead the expansion of payment Licences into new jurisdictions
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Lead the development, review, and enhancement of internal compliance policies, procedures, and controls, supporting business growth but ensuring regulatory compliance and best practice
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Conduct gap analyses against regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
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Perform onboarding risk assessments for new partners, vendors, and strategic business relationships.
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Cross function collaboration, including with Legal, Risk, Operations, Product, and Business teams to ensure regulatory requirements are appropriately embedded into business processes.
Requirements
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Bachelor's degree in Law, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
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10+ years of experience in Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Business Compliance, or related functions within regulated financial institutions.
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Demonstrated experience directly engaging with financial regulators and PSP/EMI/MSB type licensing frameworks. Crypto compliance expertise is an additional advantage
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Proven experience managing regulatory inspections, examinations, audits, and remediation programs.
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Proven experience leading policy development and compliance gap analysis initiatives.
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Experience in driving new licensing opportunities
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Experience within cryptocurrency, digital asset, or virtual asset service provider (VASP) environments.
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Experience in Middle East, or Southeast Asian regulatory environments
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Previous experience as a Compliance Officer or Regulatory Affairs professional within a licensed bank, payment institution, securities firm, or regulated financial services company.
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Strong regulatory communication and stakeholder management skills.
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Excellent commercial and business acumen, preferable in Payments / Fintech environments
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Ability to serve as the company's primary representative in interactions with regulators.
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Excellent analytical, policy drafting, and risk assessment capabilities.
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Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, and highly regulated environment.
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Resilient, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities under pressure.
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