Senior Compliance Officer, Adyen
Escalations
$135-180k
3 days a week in office
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$135-180k
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a proactive, hands-on individual who exercises sound judgment, takes ownership of projects, and thrives in a dynamic environment
- You have 8-12 years experience in a compliance, regulatory, or risk function within a financial institution, regulatory body, law firm, payments company, audit firm, or financial crime investigation unit
- You have a strong understanding of integrity risks in the payments and banking sector and how they materialize
- You possess a thorough understanding of AML/CFT and/or consumer compliance risks and how to manage them effectively
- You have robust knowledge of regulatory and licensing regimes governing payment/e-money institutions
- You can break down complex compliance issues into clear, concise components and communicate them effectively to various stakeholders
- You demonstrate a critical approach, use sound judgment, and make informed decisions quickly
- You are proactive, take ownership of projects, and work independently
- You thrive in fast-paced environments, managing multiple intricate queries simultaneously
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills—clear, direct, and concise
- You are adept at stakeholder management and balancing multiple priorities effectively
- You are flexible in working with global colleagues across different time zones
- You foster teamwork and collaboration while also challenging ideas constructively
What the job involves
- Our fast-paced Compliance Escalations team is looking for a Senior Compliance Officer with a strong understanding of integrity risks applicable to regulated financial institutions, particularly within the payments, financial services, or FinTech industries
- A successful candidate excels at deconstructing complex compliance challenges into manageable components and effectively communicating with internal and external stakeholders
- The ideal candidate is structured, efficient and able to work on multiple complex queries simultaneously
- Act as a key point of contact for escalated compliance matters, ensuring timely and effective resolution
- Engage with internal stakeholders—including legal, risk, and operational teams—to provide clarity and direction on complex compliance issues
- Assess and analyze compliance risks related to integrity, AML/CFT, card scheme rules and regulatory obligations, identifying potential threats and recommending mitigating actions
- Work closely with commercial teams to unlock new business verticals in a controlled and compliant manner, developing the necessary compliance frameworks to support sustainable growth
- Understand the organization’s risk appetite regarding compliance risks and apply a risk-based approach to decision-making, drafting and implementing control frameworks
- Synthesize compliance challenges into clear, actionable next steps for the business and drive their implementation to ensure effective risk mitigation and compliance adherence
- Develop and implement structured processes and tooling to enhance efficiency in handling compliance escalations
- Identify opportunities for automation and process improvements to optimize compliance workflows
- Support the development of escalation frameworks and procedures to enhance the Compliance team’s response strategy
- Coach, guide, and train junior team members, fostering their professional development and enhancing the overall expertise of the team
- Collaborate with global team members across time zones, ensuring seamless communication and execution of compliance initiatives
Our take
Adyen has been one of the most successful businesses in Europe over the last decade. When it went public in 2018 at a valuation of €7bn, it raised over €1bn and its share price popped on the first day, resulting in a valuation of €14bn. Its valuation has continued to climb by the billions.
Adyen competes with large players like PayPal, as well as outsized startups like Stripe, to power payments and provide other infrastructure to conduct digital transactions. Disrupters in the field have been buoyed by a strong rise in eCommerce activity, where some or all of a transaction by a customer is made either online or by mobile.
Adyen has been one of the companies riding the wave by helping to reduce the friction between a company choosing to take payments online, and actually being able to do it. That can take multiple steps and agreements across numerous countries — Adyen’s pitch is that it essentially handles all of it in the backend as a service for its users. Notable partners have included Autocanteen, a touchless self-checkout solution for the hospitality industry, and BILL, a small business-focused fintech platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$55.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $322.7m
Company benefits
- Global exchange program
- Weekly happy hour
- Delicious healthy lunches
- Phantom share package
- Yearly trip to Amsterdam
- Paid holidays
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Pieter Van Der Does
(CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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