SME Compliance Lawyer
Plata Card · Mexico
Compliance team:
We are looking for a motivated, ambitious and detail-oriented SME Compliance Lawyer to join our Legal & Compliance team. If you’re passionate about compliance, risk assessment, and regulatory standards and want to contribute to a strong AML/CFT compliance framework within the fastest growing digital bank in Mexico, this role is for you.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys structured, detail-oriented work and wants to develop a strong foundation in legal and compliance operations within a fast-paced fintech environment.
Challenges that await you:
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys structured, detail-oriented work and wants to develop a strong foundation in legal and compliance operations within a fast-paced fintech environment.
Challenges that await you:
- Own the day-to-day management of incoming legal and compliance requests, ensuring timely, accurate, and well-documented responses. This will be the core responsibility of the role.
- Supervise the decision making process of analysts regarding the onboarding of clients and alerts in the transactional monitoring mechanisms within the bank.
- Review, organize, prioritize, and follow up on requests received from internal stakeholders, maintaining clear communication throughout the process.
- Support the tracking and coordination of regulatory matters, ensuring documentation is complete and deadlines are met.
- Develop and modify internal policies and procedures to cover the financial products and services offered by Banco Plata.
- Conduct legal research and preliminary investigations to support the Legal & Compliance team.
- Help identify applicable regulations and understand what actions are permitted under current legal frameworks.
- Collaborate with different business areas to gather information required for legal and regulatory processes.
What makes you a great fit:
- Bachelor's Degree in Law.
- 3+ years of post-qualification experience on financial law & inclusion, AML/CFT, administrative law, or highly regulated markets.
- Identify and assess compliance, AML/CFT, sanctions, reputational, and operational risks related to financial products and services offered to PYMEs.
- Advanced English and Spanish (mandatory).
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with professionalism when interacting with internal and external stakeholders.
- Highly organized with excellent attention to detail.
- Experience with Mexico's KYC/KYB regulation.
- Proactive, reliable, and eager to learn in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability for assigned tasks.
Nice to Have:
- Exposure to banking and financial regulation.
- Proficiency with transaction monitoring software.
- Official AML/CFT certification issued by CNBV.
- Experience as liaison between corporations and regulatory agencies.
- Knowledge of the applicable regulation to Designated Non-Financial Professions and Businesses (Actividades Vulnerables).
Our ways of working:
- Innovative Spirit: A commitment to creativity and groundbreaking solutions.
- Honest Feedback: valuing open, transparent communication.
- Supportive Team: a strong, collaborative community.
- Celebrating Achievements: recognizing our wins together.
- High-Tech Environment: a team full of smart and revolutionary people who date to challenge the status quo of incumbent finances.