Regulatory Affairs Manager

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ 📍Dublin, Ireland | 💰€68,000 - €85,000, Incentive Awards tied to your performance ➕ benefits ⭐Our Regulatory Affairs team We’re looking for a pragmatic, organised and personable individual to strengthen our Regulatory Affairs team. The Regulatory Affairs team is the central team responsible for maintaining open and collaborative relationships with our regulators across the Monzo Group. In the Regulatory Affairs team, you’ll support and strengthen Monzo’s regulatory relationships and work closely with Executives to help shape our vision and regulatory affairs strategy as Monzo continues to grow. You’ll also work closely with our contacts at the Irish and European Regulators and support the wider Regulatory Affairs team with engagement with other relevant Regulators (PRA and FCA), responding to information requests, preparing for meetings and submitting regulatory submissions. We are on a mission to Make Money Work for Everyone and we’ve grown to over 15 million customers globally. For Regulatory Affairs this means ensuring our regulators are kept informed, managing regulatory requests and educating colleagues on the regulatory landscape. We operate a “three lines of defence” model of risk management at Monzo. You’ll be sitting in the second line as part of our Risk and Compliance team, working in the Regulatory Affairs Team. 🔑You’ll play a key role by... • Preparing for and facilitating regulator meetings, reviews and requests. Preparation includes working closely with Executives and stakeholders throughout the business to prepare and advise them on how best to meet regulatory expectations. • Keeping our regulators up to date with proactive notifications on products and strategic initiatives, as well as leading on regulatory communications during an incident. • Owning the governance and tracking of regulatory deliverables, deadlines and activities ensuring stakeholders are held accountable. • Taking responsibility for the preparation, submission and management of technically complex regulatory submissions. • Working with subject matter experts in Risk and Compliance and across the business to coordinate and prepare for regulatory visits. • Preparing data driven reports for the Executives that are clear, concise and informative. • Building and enhancing our policies and procedures for engaging with regulators. • Being a champion of risk and compliance and building respectful and collaborative relationships with all levels of stakeholders across the business. 🤩We’d love to hear from you if… • You have proven experience in a regulatory affairs role at an Irish/European regulated financial services firm or at an Irish or European financial services regulator • You have knowledge of CBI and/or ECB regulatory and supervisory obligations • You have a deep understanding of managing relations with important external stakeholders • You have excellent written and verbal communication • You have an ability to lead and manage multiple projects to short deadlines • You are a critical thinker and not afraid to challenge • You are self-motivated, highly organised and focused on executing well • You enjoy collaborating as a team and is able to work independently with changing priorities • You have a genuine interest in the regulated financial services environment and how it is changing 🙌What’s in it for you 💰A salary range of €68,000 - €85,000 ➕Incentive Awards tied to your performance. 📍This role will have a hybrid working model, based in our Dublin office 2 - 3 days a week. ⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 🏝 Annual Leave - 34 days including public holidays (24 holiday days + 10 public holidays) 📚€1,200 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences. 🏥Private healthcare scheme 💰Pension scheme: the minimum contribution is 4% and Monzo matches any additional contributions that you make up to a maximum of 6% 💛Wellbeing benefits: financial education, women’s and men’s health support, mental health benefits, including coaching and counselling 🌈 The application journey has 4 key steps • Short video call with a member of the hiring team • A take home task (practical written exercise) • Follow up video call with the Hiring Manager • Final stage 2-part Role Specific and Behavioural interviews with members from the wider Risk and Compliance collective This process should take around 3-4 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here. We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out. If you're successful in applying for this role, we'll work with you to find a start date. In some cases, there might be a delay in when you can be released from your current role so that we can make sure things continue to run smoothly. We’ll be sure to comm