Swan’s compliance team keeps 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.

✨ Your mission

As a Compliance Intern at Swan, you’ll play a key role in protecting our banking license by ensuring regulatory compliance across our operations. Your responsibilities will include conducting thorough partner reviews, evaluating internal processes, and maintaining high compliance standards. This position offers valuable exposure to both banking technology and regulations, providing an excellent opportunity to develop your career in the dynamic fintech industry.

✨ Main tasks

• Regulatory Monitoring:

  • Participate in first- and second-level compliance controls to ensure adherence to laws, regulations, professional standards, and internal audits.

  • Conduct regulatory and compliance monitoring, including AML, KYC, and Sanctions Screening mandatory checks to ensure Swan, as a payment institution, remains compliant with all relevant regulations.

• Partnership Management and Financial Crime Risk Assessment:

  • Act as a key contact for our French partners, managing registration of ORIAS mandates.

  • Execute initial compliance checks to evaluate the legal, financial crime risk, and regulatory aspects of our partners’ business models.

• Documentation & Reporting:

  • Assist in maintaining our internal documentation, ensuring accuracy and compliance with industry standards.

  • Plan and coordinate reporting processes, thereby ensuring that compliance is effectively reported, tracked, and managed within the organization.

• Collaboration & Project Involvement:

  • Actively participate and contribute to projects driven by the Compliance Team, fostering a collaborative working environment within Swan.

✨ Curious about your future team?

At Swan, you’ll have the opportunity to join our dynamic compliance team, led by the experienced Lead Compliance professional.

The compliance team operates within a department alongside the Risk, Legal, and Internal Control teams. In your role, you can anticipate close collaboration with the Sales and Product Teams, fostering an environment where cross-functional engagement is highly valued.

✨ You’re a great match if:

• You’re currently pursuing a degree in Law, Finance, Business, or a related field, with a strong interest in Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, or Risk Management.

• You have some basic knowledge of French and European financial regulations. Experience with banking and payment systems is a plus.

• You are a creative problem-solver and self-starter who can work independently.

• You’re a quick learner who’s eager to understand the broader context beyond your immediate tasks.

• Flexibility to adapt to changing requirements in an evolving and fast-paced environment.

• You’re fluent in English, and proficiency in French is a plus.

• 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:

• Meal Vouchers: We provide a Swile card to cover your meals on work days. 🥗

• Transport: Monthly mobility package for employees. In accordance with the company agreement for sustainable mobilities, you can now use your mobility package to pay for alternative commuting modes. 🚇

• Holidays: 2 days of paid leave per month. 🏝️

• Sports: Thanks to our partnership with Classpass and Gymlib, you can enjoy advantageous discounts on subscriptions. They offer a wide range of sports activities as well as wellness activities. The offers are valid in several European cities, as well as online. 🏋

• 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 45-minute interview with Niina, our Lead Business Compliance

• Take-home case study

• Final Interview with Imene, our Head of Compliance