Our 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 Compliance Analyst intern to help us face those legal and compliance challenges.

✨ Alongside the Lead Compliance, your responsibilities will be to :

• Provide advice and answer on many legal topics for Swan’s business and operations
• Contribute to regulatory watch
• Pre-Check legal & regulatory aspects of our partners’ business model
• Help us determine compliance risk in Swan’s business and operations
• Update our internal knowledge documentation

✨ You will have the opportunity to learn a lot about :

• How a regulated financial institution operates
• What kind of compliance challenges we face
• What kind of laws and regulations we leverage to operate efficiently
• How a start-up scales its operations as it grows

✨ You’re a great match if:

• You are looking for a 5/6 months internship in Paris
• You have a master’s degree (in progress) in law, finance, business, etc. or you are attending bar school/law school.
• Ideally, you have had a meaningful first experience in a banking / financial / payments institution.
• You have a good knowledge of french banking regulation. Another EEA country regulation knowledge is a plus.
• You can work in a start-up environment
• You are fluent in english and french
• 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 imposture syndrome prevent you from applying! 🙌

About Swan

✨ Perks of being a Swanee:

• Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib.
• We respect your lunch break. Mid-day free-time is sacred and our French office even provides a Swile card to cover your meal on work days. 🥪
• Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we 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:

Be human: Be straightforward, transparent, and sincerely care. It’s all about integrity and doing the right thing.

Ambition: We’re in this for the long game. We want to transform the entire market, and be the engine for Europe’s next tech champions!

Collaboration: We believe in the power of collective intelligence. We love to challenge others’ ideas and be challenged in return. May the best ideas win.

“Move fast, don’t break things”: If we must choose between security and going fast, we choose security. We are in banking, after all.

Make everything simple: Simplicity.

• A 30-min video call with Chloé, our Compliance Officer, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• An interview with Adrien, our Lead Compliance, and Stephie, our Chief Compliance Officer