Head of licensing and regulatory affairs

3 dagen geleden


Amsterdam, Nederland Adyen Voltijd
Head of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs - EMEA

This is Adyen

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.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Why you should join the Regulatory team

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 heavily regulated environment, Adyen is subject to ever-changing laws, regulations, and standards. Adyen's Regulatory function is tasked with the design of Adyen's regulatory framework and operating model across the EMEA region, interpretation and analysis of the most complex payment and financial laws and regulations, identification and mitigation of integrity risks as well as acting as the main point of contact for 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 lawyers and in-house legal counsels at financial institutions and financial regulators. This diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives is essential in helping Adyen maintain our momentum. Our business challenges are unique and we welcome different perspectives in solving them - voices like yours could make a difference.

Head of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs - EMEA

Adyen is seeking a seasoned professional within the EU/UK financial regulatory domain who is able to lead and scale our Regulatory Licensing and Affairs Team. In this role, you will be part of the Global Regulatory Leadership Team and in that capacity, responsible for determining Adyen's regulatory strategy for the EMEA Region and designing the subsequent frameworks around this strategy. You will lead a team of regulatory counsels across the region who are supporting Adyen to create unique business opportunities while making ethical choices.

What you'll do

  1. Develop a thorough understanding of Adyen's organization and Regulatory Function and leverage that understanding to identify the key focus areas to refine our regulatory strategy;
  2. Own Adyen's regulatory affairs strategy and design frameworks to scale Adyen's regulatory function;
  3. Empower team members by exposing them to a wide range of topics and provide them with trust and freedom to take decisions and ownership;
  4. Lead strategic regulatory engagements (both internally and externally) including managing relationships with prudential and conduct regulators and supervisors;
  5. Provide strategic regulatory advice towards senior stakeholders, both internal and external, in line with Adyen's commercial and strategic objectives which allow for scale;
  6. Represent the regulatory function within a variety of workstreams and products to establish regulatory strategies that align with global objectives and ensure controlled and balanced growth.

Who you are

  1. You have 10+ years' experience, at least 5+ in a senior leadership position in a regulatory and/or legal function, focused on payments, financial services and/or fintech industry;
  2. You have extensive knowledge of the UK/European payments, financial services and/or fintech industry;
  3. You have a proven track record of being a strong leader of senior individual contributors and are able to develop a high performing team;
  4. You are comfortable navigating complexity and ambiguity, always striving to clarify while adapting swiftly as needed;
  5. You are a driver, with a strong sense of initiative, ownership and independence enabling you to contribute to a fast-growing business;
  6. You have excellent communication, people and relationship building skills that allow you to influence, challenge and collaborate with senior stakeholders, both internal and with prudential and conduct regulators and supervisors;
  7. You have excellent legal writing and drafting skills, allowing you to position Adyen most favorably when navigating through complex regulatory challenges;
  8. You are fluent in English and full proficiency in French and/or German is a plus.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you're from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. 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.

Don't be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

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