Senior Counsel, Adyen
Financial Economic Crime
Payments platform built to grow businesses
Open for applications
Payments platform built to grow businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Adyen's mission is to make payments choices easy for merchants.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate must possess strong analytical skills, have excellent communications skills, and be able to work as a business partner providing advice across the Adyen Group to build sustainable growth
- You have 5+ years of experience in a similar compliance and/or regulatory function within the payments/financial services industry
- You possess strong knowledge and practical experience on FEC and Sanctions laws and regulations and on the best ways to achieve regulatory compliance
- You have excellent research, analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- You have strong interpersonal and communication skills. Specifically, you will be able to liaise and connect with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders, and you are perfectly capable of drafting a wide variety of documents through increased sensitivity to language, structure, content and audience
- You have a data affinity and are able to coordinate with data experts and technical internal stakeholders
- You have a strong sense of initiative, independence and ability to take ownership of your work, while being a people person and enjoying collaborating with individuals from different levels of seniority, cultures and background; and,
- You have a strong ability to adapt to a dynamic and fast-paced environment, being able to handle continuous changes and strict deadlines by working in an organised manner
What the job involves
- Our FEC Governance Team (part of the wider AML Compliance Team) is looking for a Senior FEC Governance Counsel with experience in Policy setting, integrity risk analysis, Sanctions as well as providing practical business advice in relation to policies and wider governance aspects in the payments/finance industry
- Identify (new) obligations based on applicable laws and regulations with regard to Anti-Money Laundering, Countering the Financing of Terrorism, Sanctions, Tax Integrity, or Bribery and Corruption
- Translate identified obligations into relevant Policies and Procedures to be effectively communicated and implemented across the global business
- Perform integrity risk assessments in accordance with applicable triggers, determine any impact and coordinate follow-up actions in line with the overall integrity risk assessment process
- Advise internal stakeholders as well as Customers and liaise with external stakeholders, such as relevant regulators and supervisors
- Represent the wider AML Compliance Team on a variety of workstreams to establish governance strategies that align with global objectives and ensure controlled and compliant growth
- Strengthen knowledge management across the global business; and,
- Consider opportunities and risks from a variety of angles to achieve compliant solutions that align with commercial and strategic objectives
Application process
- We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days
- Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role
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
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2015
$52.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2014
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $319.5m
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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