Senior Compliance Officer/Compliance Officer (Banking)

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark; work from Aarhus, Denmark or Stockholm, Sweden is also possible. Hybrid schedule with 4 days in the office and 1 day working from home.

Company

Fully licensed digital bank founded in 2015, building cloud-native, real-time financial services for millions of users across Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

What you will do

• Drive compliance initiatives across key areas of general banking regulation.
• Act as a subject matter expert in two areas selected from credit, conduct, financial crime prevention, digital operational resilience, and payments.
• Implement and maintain the Compliance Framework and keep it aligned with the business model.
• Monitor and assess compliance risks and turn findings into actionable business recommendations.
• Support, challenge, and advise stakeholders on regulatory questions as products and processes evolve.

Requirements

• Experience with Danish banking regulation; several years for the senior role and less experience for an earlier-career compliance role.
• Hands-on experience in compliance or risk management in the first or second line of defence, preferably at a bank or credit institution.
• Analytical skills for identifying and assessing regulatory risk in the context of specific business models and products.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to position compliance as a business enabler.
• Solid understanding of core banking activities and products.
• Ability to explain regulatory reasoning to people outside compliance, move projects forward independently, and work closely with the team.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with four office days and one work-from-home day per week.
• State-of-the-art computer, monitor, mouse, and keyboard equipment.
• Pension, health insurance, and enhanced parental leave.
• Collaborative, tech-first compliance environment with influence over the development of the Compliance Framework.