Regulatory & Compliance Counsel - Italy (m/f/x)

Location: Milan, Italy

Salary: EUR 50,000–99,000 gross yearly

Company

hirify.global is a European digital investment platform and fintech startup offering brokerage, wealth management, and exchange services to more than one million clients.

What you will do

• Advise the Italian branch on banking, investment services, payment services, and consumer protection law.
• Localise group policies, procedures, and operational processes by identifying Italian legal and regulatory requirements.
• Support the Italian AML Officer with AML and financial crime controls, CDD/EDD topics, risk assessments, policy localisation, and regulatory change.
• Review products, features, and marketing campaigns for compliance with Italian transparency and consumer protection rules.
• Monitor regulatory developments and coordinate implementation with relevant teams.
• Handle and document complaints, authority requests, audits, formal communications, and other legal-operational processes.

Requirements

• Law degree and proven experience in a legal or compliance function at a bank, fintech, or law firm.
• Deep knowledge of Italian banking transparency rules, TUB, TUF/MiFID II, the Consumer Code, and AGCM practices.
• Knowledge of the three lines of defense model and the Italian AML framework under D.Lgs. 231/2007.
• Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into procedures, controls, implementation plans, and operational guidance.
• Experience with regulatory authority requests, audits, remediation tracking, or legal-operational processes is advantageous.
• Full professional fluency in Italian and English is required.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with AML, CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, or financial crime.
• Experience in a branch network, fintech, digital bank, investment firm, or cross-border financial services environment.

Culture & Benefits

• International, diverse, and inclusive working environment.
• Access to the latest hardware and tools.
• In-house knowledge-sharing and career development sessions.
• Individual education budget.
• Opportunity to work from abroad.
• Complimentary hirify.global PRIME+ Broker subscription.