Job Description
Adyen is seeking a Senior Compliance Officer to join their Compliance Escalations team in San Francisco. Adyen is a financial technology platform that provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for global customers. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of integrity risks within the payments, financial services, or FinTech industries. They should be proactive, hands-on, and capable of managing complex compliance challenges.
What this role involves:
- Acting as a key point of contact for escalated compliance matters.
- Engaging with internal stakeholders to provide clarity on complex compliance issues.
- Assessing and analyzing compliance risks related to integrity, AML/CFT, card scheme rules, and regulatory obligations.
- Working with commercial teams to unlock new business verticals in a compliant manner.
- Developing and implementing control frameworks.
- Synthesizing compliance challenges into actionable steps.
- Developing and implementing structured processes and tooling to enhance efficiency.
- Coaching and training junior team members.
- Collaborating with global team members across time zones.
Requirements:
- 8-12 years of experience in a compliance, regulatory, or risk function.
- Strong understanding of integrity risks in the payments and banking sector.
- Thorough understanding of AML/CFT and/or consumer compliance risks.
- Robust knowledge of regulatory and licensing regimes governing payment/e-money institutions.
- Ability to break down complex compliance issues and communicate them effectively.
- Critical approach, sound judgment, and quick decision-making skills.
- Proactive and independent work ethic.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Adept at stakeholder management and balancing multiple priorities.
- Flexibility in working with global colleagues across different time zones.
- Teamwork and collaboration skills.
What Adyen offers:
- An environment with opportunities for people to succeed.
- Culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers.