Division: Compliance

Reports to: Head of Legal

This is a great opportunity to join an international payments company as a Head of Bank Relations to work withing their compliance division. This role will suit a UK or an EU-based candidate with Russian language skills and relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Managing the process of opening new accounts, including communication with payment system managers and banks.
• Maintaining internal registers (tables) with up-to-date information on the status of our accounts in banks, updating information on current currencies and account categories.
• Processing compliance requests, including responding to inquiries.
• Conducting KYC procedures, Due Diligence, and checking counterparties (companies and individuals).

Key skills

• Experience in crypto or any other high-risk field
• Experience working in an international bank or an international payment company (payment service, broker)
• Experience in writing explanations to the banks on source of funds and current operations (in English)

Desired skills

• Higher professional legal education
• Experience in the specialty for at least five years
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity
• English at least C1 and good Russian language skills
• Skills in Bitrix 24
• 3+ years of work experience in multinational companies, FinTech, top-tier firms or banks
• Understanding of global payment systems (SEPA, SWIFT, banking platforms, etc.) and international business
• Strong attention to detail
• Able to prioritize, organize and effectively manage daily routines, ad-hoc task and strategic goal
• Excellent communication, negotiation & management skills
• Knowledgeable about European AML legislation, virtual currency regulations, and other relevant regulation
• Experience in obtaining a financial license from the regulator
• Experience with AML/CTF software

Personal characteristics

• Communication skills, both oral and written, including in English, as well as document drafting skills
• Ability to organise and plan
• Leadership skills
• Skills in setting tasks and monitoring their implementation
• Stress resistance
• Responsibility for the result
• Self-confidence
• Systems thinking
• Analytical abilities
• Attention to details
• Flexibility
• Ability to solve complex problems: critical thinking, ability to consider multiple factors and make optimal decisions in complex situations.