Senior Compliance Officer

The role

As a Senior Compliance Officer, you will strengthen the second-line function by providing regulatory product oversight. You will collaborate with Operations, Product, Legal, and Risk teams to ensure compliance during growth.

What you will do

• Partner with Legal, Product, Risk, Operations, and Credit teams on product development to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Assess and advise on regulatory and licensing requirements in new markets.
• Develop solutions to meet local compliance obligations and consumer protection standards.
• Lead and coordinate regulatory filings, disclosures, and responses to governmental and supervisory bodies.
• Review and update compliance policies, procedures and control frameworks.
• Monitor and test business operations to identify weaknesses and implement improvements.
• Stay ahead of evolving regulatory developments across relevant jurisdictions.
• Interpret regulatory changes and deliver training to business functions.
• Design and conduct thematic compliance reviews and targeted audits.
• Deliver reports with root cause analysis and actionable recommendations.

Required qualifications

• 5/6+ years of relevant experience in Compliance, ideally in fintech, digital banking, credit or financial services.
• University degree in Law, Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of UK/EU regulations, e.g. (PRA OR FCA OR EBA OR PSD2 OR CRD), or local EEA supervisory regulations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to drive process improvement by analysing workflows and recommending enhancements.

Nice to have

• Professional certifications such as CAMS, ICA Advanced AML, CFCS
• Strong data or analytical skills (e.g. SQL, Excel)

About the company

Teya is building a financial platform for local businesses across Europe. The company aims to provide simple tools, thoughtful design and real human support to entrepreneurs.