Plaid

About Plaid

The Compliance team at Plaid is a cross functional team with deep product and industry knowledge, that designs and maintains controls to mitigate risks, ensure trust in the platform, and enable the business. Plaid sits in the middle of the fintech ecosystem, and we're the gateway used by our customers to build, test, launch, and scale amazing applications. What excites you? Developing and maintaining a risk based compliance monitoring and testing program relevant to the size and complexity of the business. Reviewing and evaluating new UK and EU customers from a risk, security, regulatory, and reputational perspective. Performing periodic reviews of client accounts and analysing transaction monitoring system alerts. Maintaining and enhancing compliance related policies and procedures. Working with key internal stakeholders to ensure the completion and filing of all mandatory FCA returns. Assisting the MLRO with all matters relating to AML, CTF and ABC, including creating and filing Suspicious Activity Reports as required. Liaising with internal and external auditors, and ensuring the timely implementation of all compliance audit recommendations. Reviewing, advising and assisting the Customer Services team with the handling of complaints; and liaising with the Financial Ombudsman Service as required. Responding to requests for information from external parties including clients; banking partners; external auditors; the FCA; and law enforcement agencies. Monitoring regulatory developments, and ensuring to keep the management team abreast of key changes in a timely fashion. Designing and maintaining the staff training program. Working cross functionally - you’ll work closely with our Legal, Sales, Growth, and Business Development teams to help build and maintain trust with developer customers, financial institutions, and individual users. Building, automating, scaling, and improving compliance operational workflows and processes. Being a key resource in developing and implementing the internal policies and procedures required of a rapidly-evolving risk management function. Learning about and operationalising relevant regulatory requirements in new jurisdictions in order to support Plaid’s international expansion. Articulating complex and nuanced compliance requirements into understandable concepts both internally and externally. Supporting the broader Compliance team to operationalise relevant regulatory and legal requirements What excites us? 3+ years of relevant compliance, risk, or operational experience with a specific focus on financial services. Fintech experience strongly preferred. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Desire to learn relevant laws and regulatory requirements; experience with KYC, AML, CTF, ABC, PSD2, and GDPR requirements are preferred. Good understanding of UK and EU regulatory structure, process, and underlying principles. Ideal candidate is positive, collaborative, organised, and an independent thinker with demonstrated good judgment, problem-solving, and analytical skills. Ability to work well under pressure and empathetic to the challenges of a start-up. Strong familiarity with a range of relevant financial and technical concepts. Willingness to roll up your sleeves; you’ll wear many hats and will have to balance cross-functional projects with different stakeholders in a wide variety of roles. Intellectual honesty and humility; you should be willing to admit when you don’t know something, and should have the discernibility to escalate urgent issues when necessary. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We encourage all applicants, regardless of race, religion or belief (if any), colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, age, marital and civil partnership status, or disability status.

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Legal Form: Inc

Company Type: Private

Company Size: 1001 - 5000

Revenue: < 1 million (USD)

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