General Manager, Regulated Fintech — Colombia

ARQ; Bogotá ciudad; Hybrid; COP 600,120,000 - 933,520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Discretionary performance bonus

Advanced tech tools

Job summary

ARQ is seeking a senior executive to lead its regulated entity in Colombia, ensuring licensing, compliance, governance, and risk controls are robust as the business scales. You will work with global teams to maintain regulatory readiness and operational excellence.

The role requires a deep understanding of local regulatory requirements, AML/KYC controls, and credit risk management, with ownership of licensing timelines and board-level representation when needed.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a regulated financial institution, fintech, or financial services environment.
• Direct exposure to licensing, operations, or risk management.
• Drafted and operationalized risk, operations and compliance frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management with regulators, advisors, and internal teams.
• Excellent organizational ability and attention to detail.
• Ability to navigate complex processes and extract decisions.
• High ownership mentality to drive outcomes across long regulatory timelines.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end licensing, AML/KYC, fraud, safeguarding, complaints, reporting, controls, audits.
• Ensure compliance with local laws, license conditions, and internal policies.
• Serve as primary contact for local authorities, lead inspections and audits.
• Drive regulatory approval milestones from constitution to go-live.
• Draft and operate local credit and risk policies aligned with regulators.
• Own the local credit risk framework and lending activity in line with risk appetite.
• Coordinate with global legal, risk, operations, product, and compliance teams.
• Manage day-to-day operations of the regulated entity, staffing, governance, and scaling.
• Act as local signatory and board-level representative when required.

Skills

Regulated finance experience

Regulatory liaison

Risk and compliance framework

Regulatory stakeholder management

Due diligence mindset

Structured problem solving

Owner mindset for regulatory timelines

Job description

ARQ is seeking a senior executive to lead its regulated entity in Colombia, ensuring licensing, compliance, governance, and risk controls are robust as the business scales. You will work with global teams to maintain regulatory readiness and operational excellence.

The role requires a deep understanding of local regulatory requirements, AML/KYC controls, and credit risk management, with ownership of licensing timelines and board-level representation when needed.