Compliance Expert

About Us

Nu was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services. We are one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms, serving millions of customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. For more information, visit our institutional page. 

About the team

The Compliance team has an important mission at Nubank: ensure that we are compliant with applicable regulations. That means we need to understand both the regulation and our business, so we can act in a true partnership with our internal clients, and not only be a distributor of new rules. Our team should help with the interpretation of regulations, and definition of action plans as well as monitoring and testing their implementation. 

Also, the team is responsible for mapping and quantifying regulatory risks of existing products/processes in order to properly manage them, providing a safe environment to support the decision-making process and the sustainability of Nubank.

As a Compliance Expert , you're expected to:

• Performing deep analysis of new rules and understand their impacts, being hungry to go after information and knowledge by himself/herself;
• Assessing and challenging the action plans defined by business units and monitor their implementation;
• Managing activities and prioritization to meet internal and regulatory deadlines;
• Connecting and maintaining good relationship with different teams, being able to negotiate deadlines;
• Being assertive and objective when writing and presenting regulatory matters (advisories and tracking);
• Supporting the business areas, assisting in decision making, considering the applicable term;
• Providing regulatory analysis in the approval flow of new products, services, or features;
• Supporting prevention and detection of anomalies that may result in regulatory gaps;
• Preparing and presenting training related to compliance matters;
• Monitoring, coordinating,  and answering inquiries and inspections from the different supervisors.
• Following the governance of regulatory issues to senior management, either through Compliance Forum, Risk Committees, etc
• Connecting with Global Compliance team and following the Compliance methodology 
• Supervising as a tech lead the other Compliance team members

We are looking for a Compliance  Expert, who has:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Business management or related fields
• Previous exposure to activities related to regulatory compliance, financial products/services regulatory matters and/or risk management/NFR in a financial or tech company or Consulting firm for at least 10 years;
• No Legal background (to complement existing team's profile)
• Interpretation and strong logical thinking;
• Ability to summarize the main changes/to-do's of a new rule;
• Experience in testing 
• Experience working in structuring and measuring KPIs/KRIs, presenting information in dashboards and reports format
• Excellent communication skills: structured and objective - to liaise with senior management
• Negotiation and prioritization skills   
• Fluent English.
• JIRA, automation, queries, SQL, or other programming languages (to extract and manipulate data) would be a plus

The position is based in Bogotá, Colombia.

Core Benefits:

• Equity at Nubank
• Health insurance
• Vacations of 15 workdays
• Nu Language - Language learning program
• Parental leaves

Diversity and Inclusion at Nu

We want to build products and experiences for everyone who wants to take back control over their finances, that’s why we build strong and diverse teams that rise up to the challenge. We are a team of the most creative people in technology, and we hire under equal opportunity, irrespective of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or background. We are proud to say that 30% of our team recognize themselves as part of the LGBTQ+ community, and 40% of our team identify as women, in all positions and seniority levels. We are a very process-light organization that values human interactions, and that is a very important part of our culture. At nu, everyone has the opportunity to speak up and participate, grow and share ideas.

Nubank continues to hire for all open roles, all interviewing and onboarding is done virtually. Everyone new to the team and our current staff will be working from home for 7-8 weeks and 1 at the office (Bogotá).