A hybrid Legal role at Nium.
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
4 - 6 years of experience in regulatory compliance, AML, BSA, financial crimes, enterprise risk, operational risk, or audit within a fintech, payments company, regulated financial institution, or regulatory agency.
Strong experience with US AML regulations, transaction monitoring, screening, and KYC and KYB processes.
Strong understanding of AML risk typologies, escalation criteria, and how regulatory expectations are applied in practice.
Experience reviewing and decisioning escalated or high-risk cases.
Strong understanding of payment flows, money transmission, banking partnerships, and regulatory requirements applicable to financial institutions and fintech companies.
Familiarity with financial regulatory laws, rules, regulations, and industry best practices across the United States and, preferably, the Americas region.
Strong analytical, investigative, and documentation skills.
Strong data proficiency, including the ability to work with data and leverage insights for strategic decision making.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex issues to front line teams, senior management, and other stakeholders.
Strong project management, critical thinking, and time management skills.
Inquisitive and proactive mindset, with the ability to think strategically and propose practical, effective solutions.
Strong curiosity about fintech, payments, and consumer financial protections.
CAMS or similar compliance or anti-money laundering certification.
Experience supporting US Money Transmitter License environments.
Exposure to multi-jurisdictional compliance frameworks in the Americas.
Experience developing, maintaining, or enhancing a compliance program within a financial institution, preferably related to payments activity.
Exposure to licensing processes, regulatory expansion, and RegTech / other technology driven compliance solutions.
Nium
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Nium is a Singapore-headquartered cross-border payments company. Initially founded by Prajit Nanu and Michael Bermingham, and launched as a consumer-remittance platform Instarem in 2014. In 2016, the company introduced its B2B payments platform and rebranded as Nium in 2019, subsequently elevating Pratik Gandhi to co-founder in 2021. However, Gandhi left Nium in October 2023, around the time Nium's Chief Product Officer also left the company and Nium announced a layoff of over 10% of its global staff.
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