Compliance Lead

Soldo; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech company in Dublin is looking for a Compliance Lead to ensure compliance culture and manage risk effectively. This role will involve reporting to the Board and engaging with external stakeholders while maintaining standards across jurisdictions. The ideal candidate has proven experience in the financial services industry, strong leadership skills, and a deep understanding of regulatory compliance issues.

Benefits

Private healthcare coverage

Career development budget

Flexible working options

Statutory and extra leave days

Personal company card

Employee Assistance Programme

Tax Saver Commuter Scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in fintech/payments and EU-wide compliance.
• Deep understanding of regulatory issues faced by fintech companies.
• Ability to build relationships with regulators and board members.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance culture and effective risk management.
• Report compliance and regulatory metrics to the Board.
• Engage with external stakeholders and maintain standards.

Skills

Senior risk and compliance experience

Understanding of payments and e-money

Strong leadership skills

Excellent communication skills

Problem-solving abilities

Job description

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Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that freesprogressive businesses to accomplish more. Over 25,000 organisations across 31countries use Soldo to end slow, messy, and inefficient spending, bringingfinancial agility and control over every expense.

Soldo frees finance with a uniquely proactive approach tomanaging decentralised spending. By combining a powerful spend managementplatform, user-friendly app, and versatile payment methods, Soldo automatesexpense admin to eliminate the inefficiency in managing business spending.

By proactively managing decentralised spend, organisationsempower employees to spend when and where it's needed, keeping productivityhigh while avoiding month-end surprises.

Founded in 2015 by Italian digital innovator CarloGualandri, Soldo is headquartered in London, with offices in Dublin, Milan, andRome.

We’re looking for people with big ambitions, cool heads,sharp minds, and warm hearts. Come and join us, as we grow together

What's in it for you

• Private healthcare coverage for you and your family
  
• Genuine career development opportunities (we love to see you succeed) - including your own annual €500 career development budget
  
• Access to training and development - including a mentoring programme, workshops and the opportunity to progress onto our leadership programme
  
• Flexible working options including working from home or our Dublin office
  
• Statutory Leave entitlements plus extra days off on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and your Birthday
  
• Your own personal company Soldo card
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Tax Saver Commuter Scheme
  

The role

The position of the Compliance Lead, based in Dublin, willbe appointed PCF 12 according to CBI Fitness and Probity Regulations, and willreport to the Board of Directors. The position will also report into the Headof Risk & Compliance (PCF 14)

As Compliance Lead, the person will ensure that Soldocontinues to promote a culture of compliance by ensuring that our riskmanagement and regulatory compliance programs are in line with regulatoryrequirements and supervisory expectations which includes ensuring there is anadequate training program across the organisation. The person will also beresponsible for horizon scanning of regulation where the company operates, inparticular Ireland and the rest of Europe as the company expands.

The successful candidate will ensure that daily compliancerisk management and regulatory reporting, including metrics, trend analysis,and recommendations are in place. In carrying out this role, the person willengage with external stakeholders, including Regulators, and will workcollaboratively and act as a point of contact for advice with many internalteams across the business, including AML/CFT, Legal, Operations, customerinteraction and technology & IT platform teams. The person will also ensureconsistency of approach and standards for compliance across SFS Dac and SFS Ltd(UK) while being fully compliant with both jurisdictions’ requirements.

We're looking for someone who must have:

• Proven experience working as a senior risk and compliance professional in the financial services industry, preferably in fintech/payments and with EU-wide scope
  
• Experience and understanding of payments, e-money or wallet products / services and banking functions.
  
• A deep understanding of the regulatory compliance issues that a company like Soldo faces
  
• A history of maintaining the appropriate Fitness and Probity Standards as defined by the Central Bank of Ireland
  
• A proven ability to build strong working relationships with industry counterparts, regulators, partners, and at board level
  
• Strong leadership skills and an ability to create a culture of compliance by design across the organization.
  
• Effective team player
  
• An ability to find solutions to complex and hard problems and ability to turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid action plans
  
• Excellent communication skills including an ability to convey a compelling vision for compliance and risk
  
• A strong motivation to progress and learn.
  
• Italian language knowledge would be a significant plus