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.
