Compliance Manager with Fintech experience Lisboa

Compliance Manager with Fintech experience
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

We are looking for a Compliance Manager with proven compliance and regulatory experience within the payments industry.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing a compliance program focused on controlling and improving the business' compliance to relevant
- country legal and regulatory requirements. You will also be leading our compliance operations and as their manager, will be the “go-to” person for all compliance and regulatory requirements ensuring that compliance can be achieved effectively and efficiently through strong processes.

To succeed in this role, you need to have a passion for solving ambiguous problems and be willing to roll up your sleeves to build processes that significantly impact our merchants and our teams. A successful candidate will be highly analytical, resourceful, and
- focused with the ability to work independently under time constraints to meet deadlines.

Tasks

• Maintain compliance programs for regulated entities, encompassing all business lines and legal entities for which corporate compliance is responsible for
  -
  - day operations;
• Ensure that a consistent, proportionate, and
  - based approach is applied to all AML, KYC, GDPR, and compliance matters;
• Drive improvements in KYC, AML, GDPR, and general compliance awareness through the evaluation of needs, and delivering training and development programs;
• Drive a compliance review and analysis of new regulatory developments and maintaining oversight of developments impacting business activities. Ensure effective action plans are made and implemented to address upcoming changes in regulation and best practice;
• Lead the company's compliance operations and teams to ensure the effective delivery of the functions, responsibilities, and goals;
• Manage a range of financial services regulatory matters including, licensing and ongoing obligations and requirements for relevant regulatory boards and financial institutions;
• Maintain existing licenses compliance and lead application for new ones;
• Responsible for regular reporting to various Financial Institutions (FI’s) on compliance;
• Ensure that the company meets compliance and license requirements in each regional jurisdiction where the company operates and services are provided;
• Lead the preparation of audit and examination responses, including monitoring the completion of management commitments/corrective action;
• Proactively identify situations that may pose significant compliance risk and guides management in the development/reviewing/updating of relevant policies, procedures, and business practices.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree;
• At least 3 years of experience in a similar role within the payments business, financial institution, fintech company, financial regulatory agency, or professional services firms serving financial institution clients;
• At least 1 year of experience in managing a
  - related team or operations. Able to influence, train, and develop effective working relationships with employees at all levels, gaining their acceptance, and driving change;
• Experience in and understanding of MSBs, merchant acquiring, gateway,
  - currency pricing solutions,
  - money or wallet products, and services;
• Have an understanding of customer experience and make
  - oriented recommendations to ensure compliance with key requirements;
• Experience with OFAC and AML compliance. Knowledge of FATCA rules a plus;
• A legal background is a plus but is not required;
• Experience working with state and/or federal regulators and agencies (i. e. , Fin
  CEN)
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and/or Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) or similar certifications preferred;
• Since this role will be working with teams based in different cities, an Intermediate level of English is required. We are looking for someone who is able to write in, understand, and speak English comfortably;
• Availability and ease of travel.

Benefits

If you are eager to take your career to the next level in the payment industry, this is the opportunity for you. We offer:

• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills;
• Startup environment in a
  - paced and growing company;
• Individual career path;
• Comfortable workplaces with the most
  -
  - date equipment;
• Opportunities for
  - improvement;
• High energy, international and innovative team;
• Annual assessments;
• Corporate and social events.

This role is the ideal opportunity for someone looking for new challenges that would allow them to make a noticeable, positive impact in the company while learning and adapting to our
- paced
- up environment.

As part of our growing team in Lisbon, you will have a lot of opportunities to develop your career further with us. With future expansion plans, now is a great time to join us on our journey to change the way we pay.