Compliance and Anti Money Laundering Officer — French Branch
- Your action-oriented mindset and ability to react quickly are ideal for handling urgent regulatory requests and dynamic situations.
- Your persuasive communication and negotiation skills serve you well in representing Stripe to regulators and business partners.
- Your adaptability helps you navigate the fast-changing fintech compliance landscape and implement new technologies like AI.
- Your tendency to take risks might conflict with the compliance role's core need for caution and strict adherence to rules.
- You may find the detailed, repetitive aspects of compliance work, such as maintaining registers and filing repetitive reports, unappealing.
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Stripe is seeking a highly experienced and strategic Compliance and Money Laundering Reporting Officer to lead our regulatory compliance, financial crimes, and risk operations program in our French Branch. This role sits within the Affiliates pillar of the Financial Crime, Compliance and Risk Oversight (FinCRO) organization, and you'll report to the Chief Risk Officer. You will serve as the formal Chief Compliance and Money Laundering Reporting Officer for STEL's French Branch (Succursale en France).
You will be the principal decision-maker and strategic lead on regulatory compliance, financial crime and enterprise risk management for the French Branch, serving a critical role in ensuring Stripe's continued safe growth in France. You will be the public face of the compliance team in France and a primary point of contact with regulators, financial partners, and internal stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have deep subject matter expertise in regulatory compliance, financial crimes and ERM in France, and a proven track record building and evolving tech-forward compliance programs in a regulated financial services or payments environment.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement a robust and scalable compliance strategy for the French Branch aligning with STEL's FinCRO objectives and business goals, leveraging AI, data science, and automation wherever possible. Drive a culture of compliance and sound regulatory risk management within the French Branch as Stripe expands its product offerings. Provide regular reporting and updates to Branch management regarding the health and effectiveness of the compliance programs.
- AML/CFT Program Oversight: Own and enhance the Branch AML, counter-terrorist financing, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption programs, including the end-to-end suspicious transaction/activity reporting processes. Ensure the financial crime program is designed to efficiently and effectively prevent, detect, and report money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes.
- Tracfin Designated Officer: Serve as the Branch's formally designated Déclarant Tracfin and Correspondant Tracfin. File Déclarations de Soupçon (DS) directly with Tracfin and manage all Tracfin information requests (Droits de Communication) within prescribed timeframes.
- Compliance Program Oversight: Ensure ongoing compliance with all applicable French licensing conditions, payment services regulations, and broader French financial services laws. Monitor the regulatory environment for changes, assess business impact, and drive timely implementation of compliance obligations. Maintain a regulatory obligations register and own the internal compliance assurance framework.
- Regulatory Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for financial regulators in France and an ambassador to the industry in the country. Lead regulatory engagement including new regulatory consultations and ongoing supervisory relationships. Engage with regulatory bodies on Stripe's behalf and serve as a thought leader for technology-focused compliance solutions, representing Stripe in external forums and groups to help modernize regulatory expectations for the fintech era.
- Advisory & Consultation: Ensure Stripe's global regulatory compliance, financial crimes and ERM frameworks, policies, and controls (e.g., KYC, transaction monitoring, regulatory reporting, risk assessment, training, testing) are fit for purpose for local requirements in France. Monitor product launches and business model changes to ensure Branch compliance programs reflect new developments, including timely regulatory notifications. Provide expert guidance to business stakeholders on market expansion, product development, and operational changes to ensure compliance by design.
- Governance and Reporting: Oversee drafting and implementation of local policies, procedures, and internal controls to ensure licensing commitments and legal conditions are met. Manage production of regulatory compliance performance reports for Branch management.
- Audit and Issue Management: Lead responses to audits and regulatory assessments. Own remediation of findings and develop corrective action plans in partnership with relevant business owners.
- Training and Culture: Champion a strong compliance culture across the French Branch. Oversee the design and delivery of a regulatory compliance training programme that reflects the specific requirements of the Branch.
Who you are
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 10+ years of experience in compliance and financial crime, with significant focus on financial services, fintech, or payments.
- Prior experience as a designated Compliance Officer and/or MLRO under an ACPR-regulated or comparable entity is strongly preferred.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Deep and current knowledge of regulatory compliance and financial crimes requirements in France.
- Regulatory Engagement: Demonstrated experience interacting directly with financial regulators in France, including managing supervisory relationships and regulatory change processes.
- Communication: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex regulatory concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, and to represent Stripe externally with credibility and authority.
- Strategic Mindset: Ability to think strategically and translate complex regulatory requirements into practical, scalable business solutions in a fast-moving environment.
- Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making and a comfort operating in ambiguity.
- Fit & Proper: Must satisfy the Central Bank of Ireland's fit and proper requirements for a Controlled Function. The successful candidate will be required to undergo and complete due diligence prior to commencement in the role.
Preferred qualifications
- Languages: Fluency in French and English, to support local regulatory and stakeholder engagement.
- Certifications: CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist), ICA International Diploma in AML or equivalent professional certifications strongly preferred.
- Location: Paris, hybrid role.
- Experience working in a global, matrixed organization.
Best personality fits for this role
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