Regulatory Counsel - Licensing & Affairs

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Regulatory Counsel II - Licensing & Affairs - EMEA

Our dynamic EMEA Regulatory team is looking for a Regulatory Counsel who has experience interpreting payments and/or financial services regulation (PSD2, CRR, CBPR, IPR as well as accompanying implementations, guidance and RTS) within the EMEA region.

What you’ll do

• Advise internal and external stakeholders on a wide range of regulatory matters, including interpreting regulation to build robust and scalable risk-based processes in line with Adyen’s commercial and strategic objectives;
• Prepare regulatory engagements with prudential and conduct supervisors across the EMEA region by fostering strong, transparent and collaborative relationships and fulfilling key notification obligations;
• Drive the implementation of new regulatory challenges by analysing significant regulatory changes and driving their implementation to ensure they are addressed in a practical and scalable way.

Who you are

• You are a qualified lawyer one or multiple EMEA jurisdictions (at least one EU jurisdiction);
• You have 4+ years’ of relevant experience in a regulatory and/or legal function focused on payments and/or financial services regulation;
• You have competent knowledge of the European payments, and/or banking regulations (PSD2, IPR, CBPR2, CRR) outside the AML domain;
• You have experience approaching regulatory questions in a pragmatic manner, taking into account commercial needs and operational considerations;
• You are a driver, with a strong sense of initiative, independence and ability to take make decisions within your domain;
• You are a curious, eager to learn more about payments and financial services regulation and tackle complex legal questions;
• You have good communication and influencing skills, with a keen ability to tailor your message to the needs of your audience; and
• You are fluent in English and full proficiency in other European languages is a plus.

Why you should join Adyen’s Regulatory function and in particular the Regulatory Licensing & Affairs team

• Expand regulatory knowledge: Adyen has made the conscious choice to build its business on its own licensing stack, and to invest in banking licenses across the EMEA region. This creates complexity but also an incredible learning opportunity for our EMEA regulatory team which navigates different regulatory regimes, products and geographies every single day.
• Exposure to different supervisory regimes: Adyen has centralised its regulatory function for the EMEA region, this means that members of the team are exposed to regulatory interactions and engagements with a wide range of supervisors across the region.
• Growth opportunities: career growth at Adyen is not a ladder, but a runway, where every individual is encouraged to step outside their comfort zone, owning work that matters and being challenged on how you think everything should work. Growth is not just in titles, but in scope, responsibility and impact.

Impactful and strategic work: the role of the licensing team is fundamental in enabling Adyen's international reach and its ability to offer a diverse range of services, working on needle-moving projects to enable Adyen’s long-term success in the fintech space.

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.