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This is Adyen
Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.
For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.
Senior Regulatory Counsel
Our fast-paced APAC Regulatory team is looking for a Senior Regulatory Counsel who has experience with the payments, financial service or fintech industry in Japan. In this role, you will enable Adyen to create unique business opportunities while making ethical choices. To do this, you must have strong analytical and communication skills as well as pragmatic and strategic thinking while advising internal and external stakeholders on regulatory matters. It is also important that you have the commitment to execute tasks independently, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability. Beyond execution, you should be able to anticipate challenges, coordinate across global stakeholders, and drive solutions to completion with focus, discipline, and consistency.
What you’ll do
- Provide strategic regulatory advice towards internal and external stakeholders, as well as to the senior management, in line with Adyen’s commercial and strategic objectives which allow for scale;
- Anticipate and identify key regulatory obligations and integrity risks, and ensure these are addressed in a practical and scalable way;
- Transform identified obligations into relevant Policies and Procedures to be communicated and implemented across the global business;Represent
- Regulatory on a variety of workstreams and products to establish regulatory strategies that align with global objectives and ensure controlled and compliant growth;
- Drive alignment with global stakeholders, including implementing new processes, leading process changes, or managing incidents; communicate effectively, ensure understanding of complex issues, and execute tasks with focus.
- Act as a senior point of contact for regulator interactions, external counsel management, and high-stakes negotiations.
Who you are
- You have 10+ years’ experience in a regulatory and/or legal function focused on payments, financial services and/or fintech industry;
- You are knowledgeable in the Japan payments, financial services and/or fintech industry;
- You have a strong sense of initiative, independence and ability to take ownership enabling you to contribute to a fast-growing business;
- You are an analytical and critical thinker who finds creative solutions for complex regulatory challenges enabling business opportunities while staying in control;
- You have strong interpersonal and communication skills as well as experience in managing relationship with internal stakeholders and/or the relationship with regulators or supervisors.
- You are able to drive global stakeholders toward practical solutions, with genuine curiosity, focus, and a strong commitment to seeing solutions through.
Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments
Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.
Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!
What’s next?
Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.
This role is based out of our Tokyo office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.