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Compliance Manager - Spain/EU

Location Spain - Remote Company Currencies Direct

About the role

At Redpin, our mission is to bring global citizens and businesses together by simplifying life’s most

important payments. Our world-class payments network and human-centric customer service touches

a vast global community across 235 territories. We are reshaping the age old property market by

connecting the dots across the entire ecosystem, from buyers and sellers, to legal service firms and title

companies to property management, banks and real estate agents.

What you'll do

As a Compliance Manager for our Spain and EU operations, you will be critical in leading our effort in

combating financial crime, including money laundering, fraud, terrorist financing and proliferation

financing. You will assist in building and implementing financial crime strategies, enhancing our

compliance controls, and ensuring regulatory compliance. This is a key position that requires a deep

understanding of the financial services and regulatory landscape and the ability to work collaboratively

across teams to protect the integrity and reputation of the business.

This is a hands-on role where you will be required to work at the front line on operational matters which

will drive your recommendations and suggestions to improve the services that we provide, and reduce

the risks posed to us with respect to money laundering, terrorist financing and financial crime.

Being the Legal Representative representing our Spanish entity in front of our regulators and

counterparties, and reporting to the Group Head of Compliance and Regulation based in our UK Head

Office you will be:

• Responsible for ongoing compliance with our regulatory obligations in the EU jurisdictions in which

we operate. This will include ensuring and setting our policies, procedures and training are up-to-

date, fit for purpose and appropriate, and ongoing reporting obligations to our regulators are

consistently adhered to.

• Responsible for identifying and implementing improvements to existing financial crime processes.

You will take leadership and accountability to implement these enhancements, working with

multiple stakeholders across the Group, globally, to achieve these aims.

• Ensuring that, operationally, we continue to meet all SLAs with respect to transaction monitoring,

Suspicious Activity Reporting, providing accurate, professional and timely advice to the business

with any queries that may arise.

• Representing and leading on the Compliance functions behalf in Board meetings, and

implementing management information (MI) that enables the Board and leadership team to

make informed decisions and contribute to the Compliance framework.

• Representing our Spanish entity and leading in engagement with key stakeholders and

counterparties including auditors, regulators and banking counterparties, both internal and

external, to ensure ongoing and strong governance and across multiple forums.

• Build upon existing frameworks to track and monitor our regulatory risk and compliance, and

horizon scanning on future legislative requirements and potential impact to business system and

controls and proactively communicate as necessary.

• Working across the business to train, educate and act as a strong and trusted advisor for our teams

with respect to future regulatory requirements, anti-money laundering, financial crime, sanctions

and proliferation financing risk.

• Play a leading role in developing the compliance requirements when entering new markets.

What you'll need

Our ideal candidate will have a background in payments and either e-money regulation or a similar

discipline, great communication and organisational skills. More specifically, we’re looking for someone

who can demonstrate they have the following attributes:

• You will be an expert in regulatory compliance having a background in Financial Regulation in Spain

and have a demonstrated understanding of AML risk, with a thorough knowledge of the Regulations

and best practice applying to Payments and E-money firms.

• You are capable of interpreting regulatory requirements into highly efficient, compliant practices .

• You will be taking the lead in operational tasks, and will therefore have working knowledge with

respect to transaction monitoring process, suspicious activity reporting and providing advice and

guidance to all levels of the business, across multiple stakeholders.

• You have an ability to work well under pressure, prioritising, taking responsibility and working to

tight deadlines.

• You are a strong relationship builder across all levels of the business and externally.

• You have experience or considered the challenges and development opportunities of working at a

fast growing, technology-led enterprise.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where we connect the dots for international property payments. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world of PropTech forward, together.

Redpin, Currencies Direct and TorFX are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

 

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