About the Role

About Swift

If you’ve ever sent money across borders, we’ve probably met before. We’re the ones that keep funds flowing, supply chains moving and the world’s economies turning. As the global specialist in financial transactions, we were founded to enable the financial community to move value quickly, securely and with unrivalled precision. We’re a neutral cooperative spanning over 200 countries and territories, with a community comprising over 11,500 banks, securities players, market infrastructures and corporates. Together with our community we’re driving digital innovation, to help financial institutions to grow and improve their customers’ experience – today and for the future.

Become part of the Legal & Compliance team

The Legal & Compliance team is looking for a Regulatory Affairs Specialist with a strong background in technology, digital or financial regulation. As part of the Compliance & Regulatory Affairs team, you will take responsibility for identifying, tracking, assessing, and advising on these regulatory domains.

Acting as regulatory counsel you will build regulatory expertise, manage regulatory intelligence and leverage databases, assess and extract regulatory requirements from new regulations, advise and coordinate internal stakeholder groups with numerous other teams within Swift. In this role, you would be reporting to the global Head of Compliance & Regulatory Affairs.

Responsibilities

• Identifying and tracking legislation and regulations in priority jurisdictions around the world, leveraging a variety of sources including law firms, consultancies, reg-tech tools, associations, events and newsletters.

• Assessing regulation for impacts on Swift, and extracting applicable requirements

• Advising compliance owners across the company and cooperating with the Public Affairs team on advocacy.

• Acting as centre of expertise across several regulatory domains

• Engaging proactively with internal and external stakeholders, and coordinating working groups.

• Reporting on regulatory risk and compliance projects to management and other relevant stakeholders.

• Contributing to Swift’s compliance culture and embedding governance, risk & control principles in daily activities.

• Driving procedural, operational and technological improvements .

• Performing as a true team player, ready to back each other up and support one another in a busy work environment.

• Speaking up and sharing ideas to strengthen Swift’s Compliance & Regulatory Affairs.

• Expanding knowledge of regulatory and industry trends through networking, external engagements and training, including conferences and events.

Skills and qualifications

• University degree in law or other relevant advanced degree

• Working experience in financial, digital or technology policy

• Understanding of legislative procedures in the EU and other priority jurisdictions (including financial regulatory bodies)

• Risk, compliance & control experience

• Confident English language skills

• Analytical skills, with the ability to distill legal requirements into impact and actions, and understand wider regulatory trends

• Positivity, creative thinking, constructive attitude and an open mind

• Good interpersonal communication skills, and a record of effective working relationship with stakeholders from different disciplines

• Strong organizational skills to coordinate stakeholder groups

• Ability to manage multiple priorities

• Strong integrity and business ethics

• Focus on operational excellence

Optional skills that would add value

• Other language skills

• Other professional experience that contributes to our team’s diverse skill set

What we offer

We put you in control of career

We give you a competitive package

We help you perform at your best

We help you make a difference

We give you the freedom to be yourself

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. An environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential regardless of age, background, culture, colour, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran/military status.