Regulatory Compliance Manager
Xe, New Zealand
Job Description
At Xe, we live currencies. We share the belief that behind every currency exchange, query or transaction is a person or business trying to accomplish something important, so we work together to develop new and better currency services that put our customers first.
Xe was one of the first businesses built on the internet, having begun its life in Canada in 1993 as Xenon Laboratories. Our Universal Currency converter was launched in 1995 and it has grown into one of the most popular currency sites in the world, with over 280 million users worldwide. In 2015, Xe was purchased by Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: EEFT), and joined forces with Euronet’s HiFX brand, a leading international money transfer business, to offer Xe’s users access to reliable money transfer services as well as currency information under the Xe brand. Today, our platform is used by thousands of businesses from small-to-medium-sized enterprises, to Fortune 500 companies.
We continue to have ambitious growth plans as we work towards becoming the world’s most used, most loved and most trusted currency exchange service, helping more than a billion people around the world.
We’re proud of what we do and how we do it, but most importantly why we’re here. We empower people to know more and do better...because behind every currency exchange query or transaction is a person trying to accomplish something important.
Reporting into the Deputy Compliance Officer, you are responsible for assisting on ensuring Xe‘s Compliance and framework complies with regulatory requirements and internal policies. In addition, you are responsible for assisting the Deputy Compliance Officer in management of the Compliance Assurance and Financial Crime Compliance programs, ensuring that Xe’s products and services offered are in compliance and the operations are consistent with regulatory requirements and conditions.
What you'll do:
- Oversight for of the Compliance Monitoring program, providing assurance controls and processes are in compliance and operating effectively with current legal and regulatory conditions and aligning the business and its operations with future legal and regulatory requirements and conditions,
- Reviewing reports from Compliance Operations team, ensuring transaction monitoring alerts are reviewed timely, SARs and PTRs are submitted within appropriate regulatory timeframe,
- Provide support with organizing and executing on regulatory examinations and Independent Reviews,
- Provide support with respect to responding to regulatory consumer complaints, bank requests amp; questionnaires,
- Support on reviewing and updating policies, procedures, and compliance training. Coordinates with Compliance Operations team on implementation,
- Support on any other regulatory and compliance matters, as indicated by the Deputy Compliance Officer and the Head of APAC.
- Providing support in undertaking trend analysis to determine key risks areas to the business from compliance perspective.
Requirements
- You’ll demonstrate a track record gained working within a similar role either within the FX/Payments industry or within a highly regulated organisation for a minimum of 5 years;
- Must have a detailed understanding of legal/regulatory compliance and risk issues;
- Possess a strong ability to articulate and communicate risk/compliance issues across all levels and hierarchies in the business;
- Demonstrate project management skills and management skills necessary to produce work in accordance with professional standards;
- Getting the right balance, achieving commercial outcomes from regulatory requirements and changes;
- Ability to assess complex activities to identify potential compliance and/or operational risks;
- Have strong technical aptitude; ability to discuss detailed technical requirements with IT staff; and
- Proven ability to build relationships and communicate with people at all levels.
Benefits
- Competitive market-based salary;
- Contributory KiwiSaver
- Health Insurance
- Additional day of annual leave per year of service (capped at 25 days)
- Discount gym membership
- Opportunity to be a part of the Euronet Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) and;
- Flexible working.