Head of Risk & Compliance
Job details
Our client, is on its way to become one of the main market contenders in the
European Mobility as a Service market, and it's looking for an experienced Head of Risk and Compliance to enhance the function further.
Responsibilities
Manage the Legal, Risk and Compliance team, consisting of a compliance officer, privacy officer, transaction monitoring analysts and a risk officer
Being the company's leadership team member responsible for the implementation of compliance policies and handling of compliance incidents
Being the company's Financial Services Board member responsible for Legal, Risk and Compliance, first contact towards the Dutch Central Bank
Manage both the company's external advisors for various topics and their legal advisors in the various countries where the company operates
Continuous refinement of the legal, risk and compliance policies as defined in policy manuals, enhance the compliance training program, facilitate compliance trainings
Manage the company's transaction screening solution, further enhance the business rules, supervise daily transaction monitoring and follow-up of incidents and reporting to the FIU
Establish a legal function supporting commercial agreements through the recruitment of a Legal Counsel, acting as corporate secretary and maintaining the company's contract management system.
Setting up a partner compliance monitoring system where the company supervises the KYC/CDD process performed by the company's partners
Maintain the Enterprise Risk Management cycle, facilitate and sponsor the Generic Risk Assessment and Systematic Integrity Risk Analysis and making continuous improvements
Maintain the outsourcing risk management policy and monitor proper execution
Enhance the Credit Risk function, manage the credit analysis of the large clients and maintain the credit risk scoring solution for smaller clients
Ensure all the essential guidelines are put in proper place, accurately adhering to industry rules and regulations
Ensure that all employees are thoroughly updated regarding the organization's policies, regulations and processes.
Requirements
Relevant education at the university level (preferably a legal background).
Relevant experience (7 - 10 years) in a legal / compliance or risk management function in a regulated environment.
Appropriate and relevant skills in compliance, legal, data privacy, transaction monitoring, operational / information risk management and credit risk management.
Credible first point of contact towards the regulator.
Thorough knowledge of the regulatory framework for financial institutions.
Business knowledge, understanding and using technology, complying with, and applying appropriate risk management methodologies.
Decision making skills, following through and managing all aspects of the risk and compliance role.
Bonus points for practical experience in operating in an international holding organisation, in the payment and/or mobility industry.
Taking a keen interest in developing people and bringing them to a higher level.
Good IT knowledge.
Highly analytical skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and preferably Dutch.
BenefitsPaymentGenes, founded in 2014, is a global recruitment and consultancy agency in the payments industry.
Our mission is to change the perception of recruitment and how it is fundamentally done through our consultative approach. Alongside permanent and interim recruitment services, PaymentGenes also offers consultancy and marketing services.
We are young and driven payments professionals, allowing us to understand payment companies' business models and product offerings truly. And thus provide them with industry knowledge and carefully selected human capital.
Our personal and collaborative approach has helped us build sustainable relationships throughout the payments value chain and expand our services globally. Having worked with and for FinTech/Payments companies ourselves for many years, we have established a vast personal network of payment professionals.
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