About

Swan is the leading European fintech specialized in embedded banking. A laureate of the French government's selective year list of tech champions, "French Tech Next 120," we are quickly expanding across Europe.

Over 100 European companies have already seamlessly integrated banking services such as accounts, cards, and payments into their products through our Banking-as-a-Service platform. This approach, known as “embedded finance”, empowers businesses to elevate their offerings and create new revenue streams — often times tripling their revenue!

Our founders' vision from the beginning was Simplicity: that anyone with a fintech idea at 2 am can visit our website, start building, and buy themselves a coffee with a self-issued card the very next day. That vision has taken us far.

Following a 38M€ Series B round last September, we have been doubling our headcount and already have over 230 Swanees across offices in Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Milan! 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

Swan’s 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 Compliance team makes these pieces fit together!

As an Electronic Money Institution, Swan faces many legal and regulatory challenges when conducting its business and operations : Fighting money laundering, protecting clients' funds, working with legitimate partners, etc.

Swan is looking for a Money Laundering Reporting Officer, based in our Berlin office, to lead our compliance program in regions including DACH, Benelux and Nordics.

For this position, we are looking for a German speaker.

✨ Main tasks

• Spearheading regulatory change initiatives in your designated geography.
  
• Serving as the primary point of contact for regulatory bodies in your assigned region, including the BaFin in Germany and the DNB in the Netherlands.
  
• Validating compliance reviews conducted by our team of Compliance Managers.
  
• Investigating the regulatory implications of various business use cases.
  
• Analyzing the compliance aspects of new products and services and furnishing insights to the New Products Committee.
  
• Overseeing local compliance requirements, such as reporting and suspicious activity reporting.
  
• Crafting and refining compliance policies to ensure alignment with regulatory standards.
  
• Approving operational processes with a keen eye on compliance considerations.
  
• Maintaining a vigilant regulatory watch on banking supervision matters.

✨ Your team 

At Swan, you'll have the opportunity to join our dynamic compliance team, led by the experienced Lead Compliance professional. Our team, currently consisting of four members, is actively expanding, with ongoing recruitment for two additional team members.

The compliance team operates within a department alongside the Risk, Legal, and Internal Control teams. In your role, you can anticipate close collaboration with the Sales and Product Teams, fostering an environment where cross-functional engagement is highly valued.

Preferred experience

✨ You’re a great match if:

• You have significant experience (+5 years) in a Compliance position in a financial institution, ideally in a Fintech or another fast-paced work environment.
• You have a good knowledge of German banking regulations. Knowledge of regulations in another EEA country is a plus, especially in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy, where Swan has branches.
• You possess the mindset of a "problem solver": You need to be a creative and resourceful thinker, maintaining a positive and can-do attitude towards challenges and obstacles.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing requirements in an evolving and fast-paced environment.
• You are fluent in English and German. 
• 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:

• Hybrid remote policy: We offer the possibility of working from home for 2 days per week. 
• Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass 
• 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-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• An interview with Stéphie our Chief Risk Officer
• A case study
• An interview with a compliance team member