Risk & Compliance Project Manager
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About
Swan, a European fintech company, is the easiest way to embed banking features into your product. This can be called “Banking-as-a-Service” or “Embedded banking”. We built Swan so that anyone can start embedding banking features within just minutes of visiting our website. Swan is truly fast and easy to use.
Swan already has 100+ customers across 10+ European countries, large enterprise and startups alike. They include Carrefour, Factorial, Alma, Pennylane and Agicap. We’re on track to take things much, much further, by expanding on Europe — localizing our product, and internationalizing our team and partner portfolio.
Swan has received 58M€ funding from VCs like Lakestar, Accel, and Creandum. We’re a Mastercard principal member and a licensed financial institution, passported across Europe.
With 200+ Swanees across offices in Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Barcelona and Amsterdam! Wherever you’re coming from, come as you are! We’re open to all kinds of people, from all walks of life. If you’re excited about joining a European fintech adventure, Swan is the way!
To learn more about us: About Swan ; Our story.
Job description
✨ Your mission
Swan’s Risk & 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 Risk & Compliance team makes these pieces fit together!
Led by our Chief Risk Officer, the Risk & Compliance team currently comprises 15+ individuals and oversees numerous committees, meetings, and cross-functional projects.
As our team grows and the company scales up, we're in search of a Project Manager to support our Chief Risk Officer in day-to-day operations, aiming to maximize our full potential. We seek a versatile person—a "Swiss Knife"—capable of seamlessly working across teams and the organization.
As a Risk & Compliance Project Manager, you will oversee training, coordinate projects, facilitate communication, monitor risk services, and manage compliance documentation.
✨ Main tasks
- Plan, organize, and supervise compliance-related projects, ensuring the quality and compliance of deliverables.
- Collaborate with functional teams to integrate compliance initiatives into existing projects.
- Define communication channels for cross-functional projects (e.g., Slack, weekly meetings, minutes...).
- Ensure ongoing training on relevant regulatory requirements for the company.
- Take responsibility for the training plan.
- Prepare and present regular reports on the status of the Risk service to internal and external stakeholders.
- Prepare and monitor actions from various committees (Risk Committee, New Products Committee, Monitoring Committee, etc.).
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of policies, procedures, and guidelines related to compliance.
- Ensure all documentation is up-to-date and accessible to all relevant stakeholders.
Project Coordination & Cross-Team Communication:
Training
Reporting and Monitoring:
Documentation Management:
Preferred experience
✨ You’re a great match if:
- University degree in a relevant field such as business management, finance, or law.
- Previous professional experience in project management, preferably in a regulated environment.
- Solid understanding of relevant regulatory regulations and compliance standards.
- Excellent project management skills, including planning, organization, and resource management.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with multifunctional teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for report preparation and result presentation.
- Attention to detail and ability to work autonomously.
- Fluent in english.
- Our ideal teammate: Empathetic. Skilled. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door.
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:
- ESOP packages available 😊
- Hybrid remote policy: We offer the possibility of working from home for 2-3 days per week.
- The best health insurance: Alan 🦭
- Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib.
- We respect your lunch break. Mid-day free-time is sacred and our French office even provides a Swile card to cover your meal on work days. 🥪
- 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:
Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture.
Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something's convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.
Long Term: We always play the long game, whether it's to support our partners in their growth journey, or make tangible commitments to climate action.
Excellence: We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners' expectations— whatever it takes.
Be Human: We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions, it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet.
You can find out more about our culture.
Recruitment process
- A 30-minute video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager to get to know you, understand your career expectations, and address your questions.
- A 30-minute video call with Raphael, our Chief of Staff, and Manon, our Head of Internal Control, to offer you additional insights into our context and discuss your past experiences.
- A case study and an interview with Stephie, our Chief Risk Officer, ideally at the office.
- Department
- Compliance & Legal
- Locations
- Paris
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Type of contract
- Permanent
Paris
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