Swan’s compliance team keep our banking features safe and secure, and always have to think about the best way to combine multiple areas: business, legal, regulatory, customer support, and more. Swan is both a technology company and a financial services company, and our Compliance team makes these pieces fit together!

As an Electronic Money Institution, Swan faces many legal and regulatory challenges when conducting its business and operations : Fighting money laundering, protecting clients’ funds, working with legitimate partners, etc.

Swan is looking for a Senior Compliance Officer to play a crucial role in ensuring our operations remain in line with regulatory requirements.

✨ Main tasks

Here is a snapshot of the responsibilities you’d be trusted with :

• Managing Regulatory Changes: Stay ahead of and implement regulatory changes in the Germany.

• Regulatory Liaison: Serving as the primary point of contact for regulatory bodies in your region, including the BaFin in Germany

• Regulatory Submissions: Assist in submitting regulatory documents

• Escalation & Investigations: Act as the escalation point for investigations conducted by Compliance Managers.

• Business Use Cases: Explore regulatory aspects of various business use cases.

• New Products and Services: Assess regulatory aspects of new products and services.

• Local Compliance Oversight: Ensure compliance with German regulatory requirements, including reporting and suspicious activity monitoring.

• Compliance Documentation: Contribute to the maintenance of our internal documentation, ensuring accuracy and compliance with industry standards.

• Regulatory Watch: Conduct regulatory watch on the German banking supervision matters to keep the organization informed and compliant.

✨ Your team 

At Swan, you’ll have the opportunity to join our dynamic compliance team, led by our Head of Compliance. Our compliance function operates closely with FinCrime, Legal, and Internal Control teams, creating a cross-functional environment where knowledge-sharing and teamwork thrive. You’ll also work closely with the Sales and Product teams, ensuring compliance aligns with business needs.

✨ You’re a great match if:

• You have significant experience (+5 years) in a Compliance position in a financial institution, ideally in a Fintech or another fast-paced work environment.

• You have an excellent knowledge of German banking regulations and payment ecosystem.

• You possess the mindset of a “problem solver”: You need to be a creative and resourceful thinker, maintaining a positive and can-do attitude towards challenges and obstacles.

• Synthesis and analytical mindset with strong writing skills.

• Fluent in English and German

• Our ideal teammate: Empathetic. Skilled. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door.

It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes — don’t let imposter syndrome prevent you from applying! 🙌

Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

When it comes to recruitment, we’re interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan’s success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area.

About Swan

✨  Perks of being a Swanee:

• Holidays: 27 days of paid leaves. 🏝️

• We provide you a Pxtra account with a monthly allowance for your meal vouchers🥗, transports 🚲 & benefit in kind 🏃‍♀️‍➡️.

• Hybrid remote policy: We offer the possibility of working from home for 2 days per week. 🏡

• Offsite: Once a year we gather to reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax. 🤝

• This isn’t a perk, it should be the rule, but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. We’re working hard to get better every day. 

✨ Our values:

Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture.

Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something’s convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.

Long Term: We always play the long game, whether it’s to support our partners in their growth journey, or make tangible commitments to climate action.

Excellence: We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners’ expectations— whatever it takes.

Be Human: We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions, it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet.

You can find out more about our culture.

• A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions

• An interview with our Head of Compliance

• A case study & peer interview

• An interview with our Chief Risk Officer