Senior Regulatory Compliance Officer

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Senior Regulatory Compliance Officer (Payments)

Location: Bevis Marks, London, office based role Mon to Fri 9-5pm.

Are you an experienced professional in the financial services sector with a knack for governance and compliance? Join our dynamic team at viva.com and contribute to the continuous improvement of our governance processes! If you have a minimum of five years of experience, a solid understanding of legal and regulatory frameworks, and excellent project management skills, we want to hear from you. Thrive in an intense, fast-paced environment while working with senior management and making a tangible impact. Apply now and take the next step in your career!

Why should I apply:

• Career development role to help develop processes within a high growth organization.
• Benefit from an environment where your achievements and success will be recognized and rewarded.

Why viva.com?

viva.com is Europe's first acquirer powering merchant payments acceptance across 24 countries and 1.165+ devices. With an ECB approved banking license and presence in 24 European markets, viva.com's Tap on Any Device technology for in-store payments, Smart Checkout payment gateway for online payments, and marketplace payment solution, help European businesses of any size to accept and manage payments how they want. All of viva.com's technology is built in-house over MS Azure, and is fully scalable, supporting any payment checkout journey.

viva.com provides a seamless, conversion-boosting omnichannel payments platform, featuring acceptance of 40+ payment methods across 17 languages and 9 currencies. viva.com's ever-expanding financial services' suite includes value added features such as Real-Time Settlement; Offline Payments minimising chances of losing a sale; a Viva.com business debit card to manage corporate expenses, while reducing acceptance fees to as low as 0%; and Merchant Advance.

What you will do:

Reporting to the UK Head of Regulatory Compliance.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Regulatory Compliance Officer (Payments), to support and help further develop Viva.com's UK internal governance system, and to focus on compliance with relevant legislative / regulatory requirements for viva.com as an e-money firm. You will assist Viva.com's UK Head of Risk and Regulatory Compliance in ensuring UK governance committees run efficiently / effectively, and also assist with execution of the Compliance Monitoring Plan demonstrating that viva.com is compliant with all UK regulations for its payments business.

Key Responsibilities

More specifically, as Senior Regulatory Compliance Officer (Payments) you will:

• Ensure compliance with all regulations applicable to viva.com and other legislative/regulatory requirements, including best practices of corporate governance;
• Ensure the operation of viva.com's UK Committees in accordance with their Terms of Reference (Board and Risk & Compliance Committees), as well as the applicable legal and regulatory framework. Ensure that meeting minutes are properly kept and act as Committee Secretary, when necessary;
• Supervise the efficient and effective follow-up of Committees resolutions and ensure that all competent internal stakeholders have been engaged;
• Maintain viva.com's registry with the Committees' minutes, briefs and reports ;
• Maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders of all levels in order to provide them with appropriate governance advice and services;
• Assist the Head of Compliance with actioning the Compliance Monitoring Plan to cover all aspects of Compliance for the UK (outsourcing / safeguarding / Consumer Duty etc);
• Ad-hoc duties in the production of agenda items for the UK Risk Committee;
• Participate in the regular review of governance processes including analysing existing processes, recommending and implementing changes, documenting new processes and procedures to support compliance, continuous improvement and adoption of innovative governance practices;
• Deal with ad-hoc queries as requested by the Head of Compliance.

Requirements

To be considered you should have:

• Minimum of five (5) years of overall previous experience in the financial services sector in Europe, of which at least two (2) in a governance role or in a similar senior professional position (experience in writing Minutes and Terms of Reference a strong plus)
• Experience of payments compliance reporting obligations
• Thorough understanding the legal and regulatory frameworks applicable to viva.com and government policies of financial institutions;
• Excellent organizational & project management skills, proven analytical, planning, problem-solving and decision-making skills;
• 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 presentation and interpersonal skills;
• Fluency in English (written and spoken)

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Annual personal performance bonus.
• Pension.
• 25 Days holiday rising to 30 with service (plus 8 Bank Holidays).
• New Mothers Maternity Scheme - 20 weeks of full pay maternity leave.
• Working closely with a highly motivated team in a dynamic and fast- paced multinational environment.