Head of Compliance

As the Head of Compliance, you’ll join our growing Legal & Compliance Team, and report to the General Counsel. We are looking for a Head of Compliance who understands how to interpret regulations and build innovative programs from the ground up, can scale a team, communicate cross-department with a data-driven and comprehensive approach internally and externally with bank partners and regulators.

What you'll work on:

• Build a world class fin-tech compliance team that partners with the business and technical teams to drive innovation, identify new opportunities, and build partner and customer relationships.
• Create a "compliance by design" approach that proactively identifies and gives colleagues, partners, and customers access to applicable standards, and provides thought leadership and creative partnership along each step of the journey.
• Ensure Bolt and its employees are aware of and in compliance with applicable laws, regulations and ethical standards; providing legal compliance advice to business groups worldwide on compliance-related matters affecting Bolt’s business.
• Scale and Lead the Compliance team in developing, maintaining and delivering an education and training program to inform employees on legal, regulatory and ethical matters that exist or may evolve.
• Lead engagement with regulators and handle the preparation and maintenance of all applicable regulatory filings.
• Design and implement procedures, including internal audits, in order to detect at the earliest possible time any violations of Bolt’s policies or legal, regulatory or ethical requirements.
• Provide guidance and oversight of compliance to monitor the efficacy of the Compliance program, detect issues, violations and areas for improvement relating to policies or legal, regulatory or ethical requirements. This includes, where appropriate, directing and performing Compliance audits.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments and participate in industry lobbying efforts impacting the market. Serve as Money Laundering Reporting Officer and any other applicable roles (e.g. OFAC Officer).

What you'll need:

• 10+ years of demonstrable in-house experience of leading the design, management and implementation of global compliance programs.
• Excellent knowledge of traditional financial crime compliance legal subject matter, such as anti-money laundering, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption and related best practice.
• Strong commercial acumen; Entrepreneurial attitude and experience with, or the ability to adapt to, a rapidly growing start-up with associated complexities and ambiguities.
• An enthusiastic and dynamic disposition. The role requires a collaborative approach with a proactive and ‘can do’ mindset to operate in Bolt’s organization. Excited to deal with the unexpected coupled with a self-starter approach, strong work ethic and the ability to multitask, prioritize and follow through on multiple matters simultaneously.
• Demonstrable experience of working autonomously
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Experience in data protection/data privacy advantageous