Compliance Expert (m/f/d)

Everyone’s story matters. Come shape your story with us at Riverty.

But where does that take you?

To one of our 30 hybrid workspaces – designed for exchanging ideas, learning from others, and shaping the way we work. An international community of over 4,000 people, representing almost 80 nationalities across 11 countries. United by one mission: Combining empathy, advanced technology and data-driven insights to keep people and businesses in flow. With payments made for them. So that they don’t have to worry about it.

And there’s more. We are part of the family-owned Bertelsmann group. Established. Corporate. In a fast-paced industry. We enable flexible payments in various industries, simplifying the financial management of known brands and helping people repay debt to build financial confidence. In short: shaping FinTech.

Compliance Expert (m/f/d)

(permanent, full-time) Join our team at our location in Berlin, Verl or Amsterdam - flexible working conditions available

Responsibilities

Support international expansion: Advise business and product teams on regulatory requirements for market entry and international expansion, conduct regulatory assessments for new products, services, markets and business models, and support licensing analyses and regulatory coordination across jurisdictions.; Drive product governance: Develop, implement and maintain the product governance framework, ensuring regulatory requirements are embedded throughout the product lifecycle and supporting product launches, developments and significant changes.; Strengthen governance and risk management: Establish and oversee effective governance, risk, monitoring and reporting processes within the product environment, ensuring timely and sustainable implementation of regulatory requirements.; Connect stakeholders: Act as a trusted interface between the 1st and 2nd line of defense and foster collaboration between local and group-wide stakeholders to address regulatory requirements effectively.; Drive AI and automation: Identify and implement opportunities within the compliance function to digitalize, automate and scale compliance processes through innovative technologies and AI, while establishing appropriate standards, governance requirements and controls for their use.; Shape the future of Compliance: Support the selection, implementation and monitoring of compliance technology solutions and promote innovation, knowledge sharing and best practices to build a technology-enabled, data-driven and future-oriented compliance function.

Requirements

Completed studies in the field of economics, law, IT or comparable qualification; Several years of professional experience in the field of compliance of a bank or payment institution, ideally with a focus on product governance and/or standardization and automation; Very good knowledge of relevant legal and financial regulatory requirements (e.g. EBA guidelines, EU regulations and EU directives such as PSD3, CCD2, AMLR, etc.); Experience in working with digital tools and automation solutions; Analytical thinking, structured way of working and a high level of initiative; Strong communication skills and strong ability to work in a team; Very good knowledge of German and English