Internal Control Officer - Brussels, België - PaymentGenes

PaymentGenes
PaymentGenes
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Brussels, België

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Sophie Dubois

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Sophie Dubois

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Beschrijving

Our client is a fintech that offers start-ups and established businesses a wide range of payment services, such as transaction processing, BIN sponsorship, e-money issuance and digital wallet provision, as well as full programme management and value-added services such as PSD2 and AML compliance expertise.

The company is trusted to manage ground-breaking payment programmes such as prepaid/debit cards, travel money cards, gift cards, corporate cards, insurance cards, rewards cards, loyalty cards, staff cards (like Ticket Restaurant, Eco Cheque), promotional cards, corporate expense.

The company's programmes operate across multiple media and form factors, including physical, virtual and Apple Pay/Google Pay. The company has over 200 client programmes across 26 countries.


The Internal Control Officer will report to the company's Head of Compliance and be part of a small but growing compliance team.

The Internal Officer will play, as the second line of defence, a key role within the company and will be essential to ensure that the company clearly identifies and evaluates its compliance risk (existing and emerging), tests, writes recommendations and reports on compliance risk.

In particular, the role's primary focus is to protect the company by ensuring an excellent level of compliance across numerous regulatory domains:

As an E.M.

Institution licenced in Belgium and a Mastercard issuing member, some specific payment and financial regulations are indeed particularly important to the company.

Note that AML is not directly in scope of the role, as a separate team, headed by an AMLCO, is responsible for all AML activities (first and second line of defense).

However, the role may require close cooperation with the local AMLCO and Agent Oversight teams, as well as with the company's second line of defence teams, and some other teams located in France and the UK.

In particular, the role's primary focus is to protect the company by ensuring an excellent level of compliance across numerous regulatory domains:

  • Internal Governance,
  • Outsourcing,
  • Payment regulations,
  • Data protection regulations,
  • Customer protection,
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Safeguarding,
  • Business continuity,
  • Cyber risks,
  • ESG etc.

Responsibilities:

Risk Management

  • Risk Based Assessment: actively participate in the maintenance of the company's Compliance Risk Based Assessment (RBA), help identify new risks and update each existing risk together with its control environment and rating
  • Compliance Monitoring Plan: draft and update the annual Compliance Monitoring Plan
  • Policies and procedures: draft and update documentation related to internal control, in particular policies, procedures and methodologies
  • Management Information: draft regular presentation/Management Information (MI) and create/consolidate KPIs
  • Framework improvements: ensure that risks are properly managed, suggest improvements and challenge the current framework
Internal Control

  • Define control points: deep dive into regulations and define new control points for each control or improve existing ones
  • Perform controls: evaluate existing procedures and existing controls. This implies both evaluating the framework and performing tests to ensure that rules and legal frameworks are respected
  • Report drafting: draft internal control reports and issue recommendations
  • Follow up on recommendations: follow up on the implementation of the recommendations (actions plans) with company's action owners

Requirements:


  • Audit/Internal control/Risk background/studies
  • Demonstrate between 3 to 5 years of related experience in a similar position.
  • Knowledge of NBB regulations and financial industry best practices.
  • Payments Schemes and Technology awareness and interest would be beneficial.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey information.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, assertiveness.
  • Ability to work at a fast pace with accuracy when under pressure.
  • Result and detailoriented
  • Good knowledge of Microsoft Office suite.
  • Languages: fluency in French and English.

Benefits:


  • PaymentGenes, founded in 2014, is a global recruitment and consultancy agency in the payments industry. Our mission is to change the perception of recruitment and how it is fundamentally done through our consultative approach. Alongside permanent and interim recruitment services, PaymentGenes also offers consultancy and marketing services. We are young and driven payments professionals, which allows us to understand the business model truly and the product offering of payment companies. And thus provide them with industry knowledge and carefully selected human capital. Our personal and collaborative approach has helped us build sustainable relationships throughout the payments value chain and expand our services globally. Having worked with and for FinTech/Payments companies ourselves for many years, we have established a vast personal network of pay
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