Regional Regulatory Compliance Manager

We are looking for an experienced, high-skilled **Regulatory Compliance Manager**, passionate about FinTechs, Digital Payments and Innovations, to join our established and fast-growing business within the Southern European Region.Region

The position will be full time office based within a Viva Wallet office location within the region, comprising (Italy (Milan), Spain (Madrid), Portugal (Lisbon) and Malta (Gzira), reporting to the Group Group Legal and Compliance Director (Greece HO).

**About Viva Wallet**:
Viva Wallet is a leading European cloud-based Neobank, delivering the future of payments, now. With presence in 24 markets, it is the payment institution with the largest footprint in Europe. Viva Wallet's mission is to change the way businesses pay and get paid, offering truly unifying, yet localized, end-to-end advanced digital payments solutions and embedded banking services tailored to their needs. Latest innovations include “tap-on-phone Viva Wallet POS app” turning any Android mobile to a card terminal, and “Smart Checkout” payment gateway that can increase conversion by 21%. An advocate of sustainable cashless economy, Viva Wallet harnesses the power of their disruptive in-house technologies to provide digital payments services in 19 languages and 9 currencies, featuring over 24 payment methods.

**Key Responsibilities**

**More specifically, as Compliance Manager you shall**:

- Organize and lead the Regulatory Compliance department;
- Be responsible for the provision of regulatory compliance advice to the management, business owners and rest stakeholders with respect to all day-to-day operational and regulatory requirements;
- Ensure the continuous mapping & monitoring & the regulatory developments for the assigned geographical territory, develop regulatory compliance roadmaps and perform trainings to the involved personnel, to ensure the entity’s compliance;
- Liaise with external legal advisers and local regulatory/supervising authorities;
- Draft and/or review policies and procedures applicable to the regional subsidiaries;
- Design and monitor the implementation of the annual compliance plan and ad-hoc compliance audits to ensure that internal processes & policies are applied, identify control gaps and processes’ improvement opportunities;
- Produce reports for the Board of Directors and the Group Audit Committee;
- Prepare and/or coordinate the submission of regulatory reports to the local regulatory authorities;
- Conduct regulatory compliance risk assessment.
- Develop and maintain a formal compliance risk-and-control program, ensuring controls are put in place to mitigate monitor and report risk as appropriate.
- Maintain Compliance department files, cases and issues, achieve deadlines and document actions;
- Work cooperatively with external & internal auditors.

**Requirements**:
**To be considered you must have**:

- Minimum of five (5) years of overall previous experience in a regulatory compliance, audit or risk function.
- At least 3 years of experience within a managerial position (e.g. manager or similar senior professional position).
- Previous experience in European regulatory compliance projects is considered a strong plus.
- Regulatory product experience from a merchant acquiring organisation.
- In-depth knowledge of financial services regulations (for the region and EU) and, in particular payments’ regulations & supervision (e.g. PSD2, Compliance Risk Management, etc.).
- The ability to build relationships with co-workers, external advisers and local supervising authorities;
- The ability to work well both independently and in a team environment, including senior management, in an intense, fast-paced environment and successfully manage multiple projects within deadlines;
- Excellent communication, organizational, presentation and project management skills;
- Professional certification is considered a strong plus;
**Should have**:

- University degree in Law, Banking, Business Administration or in related fields (Master’s degree in European Banking /Payments regulation, Risk Management or in related fields is considered a strong plus);
**Personal attributes**
- Agility and adaptability in a FinTech environment and culture;
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills especially when it comes to business owners and Tech professionals (CIO, IT professionals, app and system developers, software engineers, etc.);
**Benefits**
- A competitive salary (based upon your skills and experience);
- Annual bonus based on targets’ achievement (Up to 4 monthly salaries per annum);
- Working in a positively challenging and appealing environment with great colleagues
- Exceptional technical knowledge in the payment and banking industry