Compliance and Corporate Governance Officer

1 week ago


London, United Kingdom Viva Wallet Full time

**Compliance & Corporate Governance Officer (Payments)**

**Location: Either London or Milton Keynes**

Viva Wallet is one of Europe's fastest growing and most innovative payments technology companies. As Compliance & Corporate Governance Officer you will support our growth through helping to develop internal governance systems, and to focus on compliance with relevant legislative / regulatory requirements for Viva Wallet UK as an e-money firm.

**Why should I apply**:

- Career development role to help develop processes within a high growth organization.
- Benefit from an environment where your achievements and success will be recognized and rewarded.

"Viva Wallet is a leading European cloud-based Neobank, delivering the future of payments, now. With presence in 24 markets, it is the payment institution with the largest footprint in Europe. Viva Wallet's mission is to change the way businesses pay and get paid, offering truly unifying, yet localized, end-to-end advanced digital payments solutions and embedded banking services tailored to their needs. Latest innovations include “tap-on-phone Viva Wallet POS app” turning any Android mobile to a card terminal, and “Smart Checkout” payment gateway that can increase conversion by 21%. An advocate of sustainable cashless economy, Viva Wallet harnesses the power of their disruptive in-house technologies to provide digital payments services in 19 languages and 9 currencies, featuring over 24 payment methods

**What you will do**:
Reporting to the UK Head of Regulatory Compliance.

We are looking for an experienced Compliance & Corporate Governance Officer (Payments), to support and help further develop Viva Wallet’s UK internal governance system, and to focus on compliance with relevant legislative / regulatory requirements for Viva Wallet UK as an e-money firm. He/ she will assist Viva Wallet’s UK Head of Compliance in ensuring UK governance committees run efficiently / effectively, and also assist the Head of Compliance with execution of the Compliance Monitoring Plan demonstrating that Viva Wallet UK is compliant with all UK regulations for its payments business.

**Key Responsibilities**

More specifically, as a Compliance & Corporate Governance Officer you will:

- Ensure compliance with all regulations applicable to Viva Wallet UK and other legislative/regulatory requirements, including best practices of corporate governance;
- Ensure the operation of Viva Wallet’s UK Committees in accordance with their Terms of Reference (Board and Risk & Compliance Committees), as well as the applicable legal and regulatory framework. Ensure that meeting minutes are properly kept and act as Committee Secretary, when necessary;
- Supervise the efficient and effective follow-up of Committees resolutions and ensure that all competent internal stakeholders have been engaged;
- Maintain Viva Wallet’s registry with the Committees’ minutes, briefs and reports ;
- Maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders of all levels in order to provide them with appropriate governance advice and services;
- Assist the Head of Compliance with actioning the Compliance Monitoring Plan to cover all aspects of Compliance for the UK (outsourcing / safeguarding / Consumer Duty etc);
- Ad-hoc duties in the production of agenda items for the UK Risk Committee;
- Participate in the regular review of governance processes including analysing existing processes, recommending and implementing changes, documenting new processes and procedures to support compliance, continuous improvement and adoption of innovative governance practices;
- Deal with ad-hoc queries as requested by the Head of Compliance.

**Requirements**:
To be considered you should have:

- Minimum of five (5) years of overall previous experience in the financial services sector in Europe, of which at least two (2) in a governance role or in a similar senior professional position (experience in writing Minutes and Terms of Reference a strong plus)
- Experience of payments compliance reporting obligations
- Thorough understanding the legal and regulatory frameworks applicable to Viva Wallet and government policies of financial institutions;
- Excellent organizational & project management skills, proven analytical, planning, problem-solving and decision-making skills;
- Ability to work well both independently and in a team environment, including senior management, in an intense, fast-paced environment and successfully manage multiple projects within deadlines;
- Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills;
- Fluency in English (written and spoken)
- Competitive salary plus annual Bonus based on targets’ achievement & performance appraisal.
- Opportunity for a rapid career development in the fastest growing FinTech in Europe.
- Working closely with a highly motivated team in a dynamic and fast
- paced multinational environment.

**Benefits**
- Competitive salary plus
- Annual Bonus based on



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