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Risk & Compliance officer

Posted 26 Mar 2024
Work experience
5 to 7 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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About the job

Are you great in identifying and assessing compliance, organizational and IT risks? Do you love to translate new regulations into practical actions and can you create awareness for these actions? Would you like to become a player in a rapidly growing Amsterdam-based scale-up?

If this sounds anything like you, then please continue reading. There’s a big chance you and Peaks are a perfect match!

What are you going to do?

It will be your task to make sure that Peaks has an up-to-date overview of the most important compliance and operational risks. You will team up with the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer to fulfill the second line of defense within Peaks. You will proactively support, advise and challenge management, product owners and marketeers to mitigate the risks Peaks is facing (compliance, operational, IT security, privacy, etc). For that reason, it is important that you are comfortable and confident in giving your opinion to your fellow colleagues. As Peaks provides its services fully remote via the app, privacy and IT security are themes which require your attention.

Together with the Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, you apply the Peaks risk & compliance framework. Based on the current framework, you keep key policies and processes up to date and identify new risks (for example, during the Business Risk Analysis and Systematic Integrity Risk Analysis). You will test if the mitigating measures are effective and you contribute to the process of continuous risk and control monitoring and signal improvements.

You will help Peaks stay compliant with laws & regulations and act in the best interest of customers when developing new product features and marketing campaigns. In addition, together with your colleagues you make sure Peaks is in control of risks. This means keeping policies and processes up to date and monitoring their effectiveness. You will also register and follow-up on incidents: finding the root cause with product owners and developers in order to improve processes.

As part of the Risk & Compliance team you will execute transaction monitoring, analyze customer screening results, scan the market for external developments and potential risks that could impact Peaks. Periodically, the Risk & Compliance team reports to the management of Peaks, the investors in Peaks and our supervisors. You will report to the Chief Risk and Compliance officer.

We will most probably like you a lot if you

  • Are a specialist in risk and compliance preferably with experience in retail investment, payments and/or privacy;
  • Have knowledge about regulations; the most important being: the Dutch Wft, Wwft, MiFIDII, PSD2 and GDPR that are applicable to Peaks, a licensed investment firm and a payment institution;
  • Can implement IT security risk frameworks and take this a step further;
  • Like to work in a young, dynamic organization with a startup mentality;
  • Have a university degree;
  • A minimum of 5 years experience in compliance & risk, preferably in consultancy at a big 4 firm, a regulated fintech, a retail investment or asset management firm;
  • It would be great if you have international experience;
  • Would like to work 24 to 32 hours per week;
  • Are a team player;
  • Think in possibilities, not in problems;
  • Have a realistic and balanced view on (compliance) risks and work in a structured way;
  • Have affinity and/or experience with (financial) technology and investing;
  • Are proactive, take initiative and dare to ask critical questions;
  • Great communication and influencing skills;
  • Excellent in English and comfortable in an international work environment;
  • Are enthusiastic and like to roll up your sleeves!

What we offer you:

  • A competitive salary;
  • The opportunity to learn and develop your career in one of the most exciting and fast-paced fintech scale-ups in Europe;
  • No bureaucratic hassle: a flatter than flat organization and no-nonsense culture;
  • Sport activities, healthy lunches and loads of social activities;
  • The opportunity to join an Amsterdam-based scale-up with the potential to expand throughout Europe.

Peaks is dé app die geld opzij zetten en beleggen heel eenvoudig maakt. In 2016 is Peaks opgericht met het idee dat het voor iedereen mogelijk moet zijn om je financieel vrij te voelen. Niet alleen voor mensen die de beurs volgen en The Financial Times lezen. Nee, bij Peaks geloven we dat iedereen die een bankrekening, een beetje geld én wat geduld heeft, kan beleggen.

Finance & Banking
Amsterdam
50 employees