A hybrid Legal role at Nium.
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As the VP - Commercial Compliance, you will be working as part of Nium’s global, dynamic compliance team. This role leads the development and enforcement of policies to ensure sales, marketing, and business activities comply with regulations. You will identify key risks, build effective mitigations, manage regulatory and partner engagements, and advise senior leadership to ensure ethical growth.
Commercial Deal Advisory: Act as the lead compliance architect for complex, multi-jurisdiction commercial deals, advising on product design, flow of funds, and "compliance-by-design" for new clients.
Strategic Client Engagement: Join the sales team in high-stakes client meetings to articulate Nium’s robust Compliance framework, building the trust necessary to win Tier-1 global accounts.
Operational Excellence: Partner with Product and Technology to automate the client onboarding and KYB/KYC journey, maintaining a "zero-margin-for-error" standard while also eliminating friction in the process.
Global Regulatory framework: Work with MLROs for various licensed entities and Compliance Leadership to translate global regulatory changes and technology shifts into actionable commercial opportunities for key verticals.
Governance & Reporting: Provide the Chief Risk & Compliance Officer with data-driven insights on portfolio risk and commercial compliance health.
Fintech Veteran: 15+ years in compliance, with deep expertise in cross-border payments or fintech.
Commercial Mindset: You view compliance as a foundational product feature that helps win deals, not a barrier that stops them.
Global Navigator: Expert knowledge of global regulatory frameworks in major markets, including Singapore, United Kingdom, Europe, North America.
Tech-Forward: Comfortable working with AI-native tools and stablecoin settlement rails.
Collaborative Leader: A "Win It Together" mindset, able to influence global internal and external stakeholders. Ability to lead and motivate high-performing individuals.
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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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