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 Money Laundering Reporting Officer to lead our compliance program in regions including DACH, Benelux and Nordics.

✨ Main tasks

• Spearheading regulatory change initiatives in your designated geography.

• Serving as the primary point of contact for regulatory bodies in your assigned region, including the BaFin in Germany and the DNB in the Netherlands.

• Validating compliance reviews conducted by our team of Compliance Managers.

• Investigating the regulatory implications of various business use cases.

• Analyzing the compliance aspects of new products and services and furnishing insights to the New Products Committee.

• Overseeing local compliance requirements, such as reporting and suspicious activity reporting.

• Crafting and refining compliance policies to ensure alignment with regulatory standards.

• Approving operational processes with a keen eye on compliance considerations.

• Maintaining a vigilant regulatory watch on banking supervision matters.

✨ Your team 

At Swan, you’ll have the opportunity to join our dynamic compliance team, led by the experienced Lead Compliance professional. Our team, currently consisting of four members, is actively expanding, with ongoing recruitment for two additional team members.

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 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 a good knowledge of German banking regulations. Knowledge of regulations in another EEA country is a plus, especially in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy, where Swan has branches.

• 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.

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

• You are fluent in English and German. Being fluent in Dutch could be a plus!

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

You need to be based in Germany for this position - ideally in our Berlin office !

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:

• VSOP packages available 😊

• Flexible remote policy, ask us about it!

• Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass 

• 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.

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 Adrien, our Lead Compliance

• A case study

• An interview with Stéphie our Chief Compliance Officer

• You will have the possibility to meet your future team!