In this role you will be primarily responsible for supporting the Regulatory Compliance function with implementation and ongoing monitoring of compliance controls associated with the regulatory compliance obligations of Currencycloud Netherlands, with a strong focus on Outsourcing obligations.

Key responsibilities will be:

• Assist in identifying, monitoring and actioning mitigation if required on regulatory risk matters to ensure compliance with local and international standards. 
• Support the Regulatory Function in ensuring compliance with a broad range of obligations to include but not limited to safeguarding, regulatory incident management and general regulatory engagement across Netherlands and Europe.
• Proactively identify and evaluate emerging regulatory trends, laws, and regulatory updates in markets of operation.
• Support in advising the business as to the appropriate response to regulatory incidents, ensuring timely and accurate reporting to regulatory authorities as and if required.
• Maintain and improve the regulatory incident investigations procedures ensuring that sufficient detailed records are kept at all times.
• Work alongside a wide range of  business stakeholders to ensure that all relevant steps are taken to mitigate any impact from any regulatory incident to maintain our robust and effective regulatory environment including providing direction to relevant stakeholders to ensure any observed patterns and trends are known to allow for proactive control implementation.
• Prepare and submit regulatory filings and reports, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. 
• Foster a culture of compliance within the organization, promoting awareness and adherence to regulatory requirements. 
• Support the regulatory function in any adhoc tasks, projects and workflows as they arise and are prioritised for the business.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

What we’re after:
Essential:

• A good understanding of core pillars of effective regulatory compliance programmes.
• Recognised compliance qualification (ICA or similar) and/or educated to relevant degree level.
• Basic working knowledge and understanding of regulatory landscape and regulations such as: Payment Services Directive, Safeguarding, EBA rules on Major Incidents.
• A strong team player with a positive attitude, who has attention to detail and shows initiative.
• Able to take a flexible and agile approach and respond to changing priorities. A clear communicator, with a high standard of written English.

Desirable:

• Regulatory compliance experience with a Financial Services or cross border payments institution.
• Experience in incident management and compliance monitoring (not essential).
• Adept at working independently and multi-tasking.
• Bachelor’s degree in law is advantageous.

Qualifications:

• Experience in regulatory compliance, ideally within the electronic money and payments industry.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, monitor, mitigate, and report on regulatory risk matters.
• Operational working knowledge of incident management regulations.
• Experience working with cross-functional and jurisdictional teams, including product, technology, operations, and sales, on regulatory compliance matters preferred.
• Strong presentation creation skills, with experience contributing towards forum presentations that are viewed within senior governance forums such as Risk Committees.
• Dutch speaker preferred.

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.