Senior Compliance Officer (Regulatory Focus)

Jobgether SRL; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote or hybrid work within Europe

EU travel opportunities

Direct reporting to GCCO

Job summary

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Senior Compliance Officer (Regulatory Focus) based in the Netherlands. You will strengthen regulatory compliance across a rapidly evolving crypto and payments environment, with a focus on licensing, regulatory documentation, and engagement with regulators and external counsel.

You will translate regulatory requirements into practical policies, controls, evidence, and implementation plans, collaborating with senior leadership and cross‑functional teams to ensure

Qualifications

• 5+ years in regulatory compliance including fintech/payments/cryptoassets.
• Draft and maintain regulatory applications, policies, and AML/CFT frameworks.
• Experience with EMI/PI/CASP/VASP or similar authorisation frameworks.
• Fluent English with strong regulatory drafting and written communication.
• Willingness to travel within the EU.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to licensing programmes and AML/CFT frameworks, governance, and outsourcing docs.
• Create regulatory matrices, evidence trackers, and document-control processes.
• Coordinate responses to RFIs and regulator/consultant requests.
• Draft and maintain policies, procedures, risk assessments, and controls.
• Track commitments and ensure controls are implemented effectively.
• Provide compliance guidance on products, partners, jurisdictions, and business model changes.
• Review AML, sanctions, CDD/KYB, and transaction-monitoring escalations.
• Monitor regulatory developments and assess policy impact.
• Conduct gap analyses, risk assessments, and remediation coordination.
• Support regulatory reporting, audits, and supervisory engagements.
• Provide compliance training to stakeholders.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Regulatory drafting

Regulatory analysis

English communication

Education

Law/finance/economics/risk/compliance degree

CAMS

ICA

CGSS

Tools

Sumsub

ComplyAdvantage

Scorechain

Fireblocks

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Compliance Officer (Regulatory Focus) based in Netherlands.

As a Senior Compliance Officer, you will play a key role in strengthening regulatory compliance across a rapidly evolving crypto and payments environment.

You will focus on licensing, regulatory documentation, compliance frameworks, and engagement with regulators and external counsel.

The role offers exposure to multiple jurisdictions, regulatory regimes, and complex business models spanning both cryptoassets and payment services.

You will independently translate regulatory requirements into practical policies, controls, evidence, and implementation plans.

Working closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams, you will help ensure regulatory commitments are properly documented and operationalised.

You will also contribute to new products, partnerships, jurisdictions, and business model changes from a regulatory perspective.

This is a senior, high-ownership opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex regulatory challenges and producing work to a high evidentiary standard.

Accountabilities

• Contribute to regulatory licence applications and projects, including programmes of operations, business plans, AML/CFT frameworks, safeguarding, governance, and outsourcing documentation.
• Build regulatory requirement matrices, application document maps, evidence trackers, and document-control processes.
• Prepare and coordinate responses to regulatory RFIs, comments, and requests from regulators, external counsel, and consultants.
• Draft, review, and maintain compliance policies, procedures, methodologies, risk assessments, and control descriptions.
• Track regulatory commitments following submissions and verify that documented controls are effectively implemented and operating in practice.
• Provide compliance advice on new products, business partners, jurisdictions, outsourcing arrangements, and changes to the business model.
• Review and advise on complex AML, sanctions, CDD/KYB, and transaction-monitoring escalations.
• Monitor regulatory developments and assess their impact on policies, processes, controls, and business activities.
• Conduct gap analyses, thematic reviews, and risk assessments while coordinating remediation of findings, weaknesses, and breaches.
• Support regulatory reporting, notifications, audits, inspections, and other supervisory engagements.
• Provide compliance guidance and training to business stakeholders.
• Manage multiple regulatory workstreams simultaneously while maintaining consistency, accuracy, and strong documentation standards.

Requirements

• 5+ years of regulatory compliance experience, including at least 3 years within regulated payments, e-money, cryptoassets, or a closely comparable fintech environment.
• Hands-on experience drafting regulatory applications, compliance policies, or AML/CFT frameworks, with clear ownership of the resulting documentation.
• Practical knowledge of at least one relevant authorisation framework, such as UK EMI/payment services, UK MLR cryptoasset registration, EEA EMI/PI, MiCA/CASP, or Jersey VASP.
• Strong understanding of the regulatory differences between EMI/PI, CASP/VASP, and AML registration perimeters.
• Ability to independently interpret primary legislation and regulatory guidance and translate requirements into practical compliance measures.
• Working knowledge of AMLD/FATF standards, sanctions, outsourcing, governance, and related regulatory requirements.
• Understanding of how transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, and case-management controls are designed, implemented, and evidenced.
• Experience using Sumsub, ComplyAdvantage, Scorechain, Fireblocks, or comparable compliance and financial-crime tools.
• Understanding of investigations, escalation processes, and SAR/STR reporting governance.
• Fluent professional English with excellent written communication and regulatory drafting skills.
• Ability to work independently within European business hours and travel occasionally to an EU office.
• Experience coordinating regulatory applications through submission, RFIs, and decision stages is an advantage.
• Experience working within an authorised EMI, PI, CASP, VASP, or another regulated financial institution is preferred.
• Experience with business-wide risk assessments, customer-risk methodologies, safeguarding, and outsourcing documentation is beneficial.
• Familiarity with regulatory RFIs, audits, inspections, interviews, and application trackers is valued.
• Exposure to businesses combining cryptoasset and payment services across B2C and B2B environments is a plus.
• Background in a regulator, specialist regulatory consultancy, or law firm combined with in-house implementation experience is advantageous.
• Knowledge of DORA, operational resilience, data protection, and regulatory reporting is desirable.
• Independent SAR/STR filing experience is a plus.
• A degree in law, finance, economics, risk, or compliance, together with CAMS, ICA, CGSS, or a comparable certification, is preferred.

Benefits

• Remote or hybrid working within an approved European location.
• Minimum 4-hour overlap with the European working day.
• Full-time B2B contract.
• Direct reporting to the Global Chief Compliance Officer.
• Opportunity to work across multiple licensing applications and regulatory jurisdictions.
• Direct exposure to regulators, external counsel, consultants, and senior leadership.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Compliance/AML, Legal, Product, Operations, Finance, Risk, and Security teams.
• Opportunity to take ownership of regulatory projects and documentation rather than focusing on administrative compliance tasks.
• Weekly prioritisation meetings and regular workstream check-ins.
• Occasional travel to an EU office.
• Opportunity to contribute to the development of regulatory project and documentation capabilities within a global fintech environment.

How Jobgether Works

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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