Senior Regulatory Counsel, Adyen
Frequent travel to Amsterdam
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Frequent travel to Amsterdam
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- You have 7+ years’ experience in a regulatory and/or legal function focused on UK core payments and financial services legislation such as FSMA, PSR, EMR etc
- Your knowledge of the UK payments and financial services landscape and regulatory priorities related thereto is well-established
- You have strong interpersonal and communication skills as well as experience in managing the relationship with UK regulators or supervisors and internal stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions
- You have a strong sense of initiative, independence and ability to take ownership enabling you to contribute to a fast-growing business
- You are an analytical and critical thinker who finds creative solutions for complex regulatory challenges enabling business opportunities while staying in control; and
- You are willing to travel on a frequent basis, as the Regulatory Team is based in Amsterdam
What the job involves
- Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition
- Adyen’s Regulatory function plays a strategic role in the acquisition and management of Adyen’s permissions and licenses required to support Adyen’s commercial ambitions
- As a financial technology platform operating in a highly regulated environment, Adyen is subject to ever changing laws, regulations and standards
- Adyen’s Regulatory team is tasked with the interpretation and analysis of complex payment and financial regulatory challenges, identification and mitigation of integrity risks as well as engaging with strategic internal and external stakeholders (including prudential and conduct regulators and senior executives)
- The EMEA Regulatory team consists of international regulatory experts coming from diverse backgrounds, such as international law firms and in-house legal departments of reputed financial institutions, fintech companies and financial regulators
- Our EMEA Regulatory team is looking for a UK Senior Regulatory Counsel with experience in the UK payments and/or banking industry to support Adyen’s business operations in the UK. In this role, you will be the main point of contact responsible for leading Adyen’s internal and external regulatory obligations in the UK
- Lead regulatory engagements and manage relationships with financial regulators in the UK to achieve Adyen’s strategic opportunities
- Provide strategic regulatory advice towards internal and external stakeholders, in line with Adyen’s commercial and strategic objectives which allow for scale
- Anticipate and identify key UK regulatory obligations and risks, and ensure these are addressed in a practical and scalable way
- Translate identified obligations into relevant action plans for business implementation and ensure said action plans are communicated and addressed across the global business; Represent the regulatory function on a variety of workstreams and internal governance bodies to establish regulatory strategies that align with global objectives and ensure controlled and compliant growth
Salary benchmarks
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.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$52.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $318.8m
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 values
- We build to benefit all customers (not just one)
- We make good choices to build an ethical business and drive sustainable growth for our customers
- We launch fast and iterate
- Winning is more important than ego; we work as a team - across cultures and time zones
- We don’t hide behind email, instead we pick up the phone
- We talk straight without being rude
- We include different people to sharpen our ideas
- We create our own path and won’t be slowed down by “stewards”
Company HQ
Nieuwmarkt en Lastage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Pieter Van Der Does
(CEO)Previously Chief Commercial Officer at Bibit (payments company) before co-founding Adyen in 2006.
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