About Interpolitan Money Interpolitan has been on a mission to provide premium alternative banking solutions to bridge gaps between countries, cities and people.
We offer tailored services and multi-currency solutions for seamless local and international transactions, helping businesses and individuals overcome traditional banking barriers.
In the past, financial journeys were fraught with red tape, slow systems and arbitrary transaction limits. Now, everything has changed. Thanks to our unique approach, Interpolitan clients can easily meet financial goals and make cross-border transactions worldwide.
We’re a values-led organisation and place integrity at the heart of every decision. As we expand both domestically and internationally, these core principles empower us and help us drive growth and the development of company culture in an ethical way.
Our global business has team members in the UK, India and the UAE. We’re looking for talented innovators who are passionate, positive and capable of thinking outside the box to solve challenges.
If you share our values and would like to be part of our journey, we encourage you to apply for one of our open roles.
About The Role As we invest more into our growth, we’re looking for a talented Vice President, Head of Compliance & Risk - who has a strong background, excellent technical skills, and sound business acumen. You'll be at the epicentre of our operations helping to scale the business by building, develop and managing a new Compliance & Risk team at GIFT City India, in conjunction with the stakeholders.
Key responsibilities: - Build & Run the Compliance & Risk teams at GIFT City India independently.
- Be the single point of contact for all matters Compliance & Risk
- Stakeholder Management to ensure local policies & procedures are in line with global policies.
- Represent the firm with the regulators appropriately & keep the business compliant to local laws.
What You’ll Be Doing - Assist with Interpolitan Money (GIFT City) Ltd obtaining pre-approved and approved permissions to act as a Payment Service Provider.
- Start to build out the compliance function, both financial crime oversight and control and the regulatory function to ensure day-to-day compliance with IFSCA requirements.
- Review and consider existing policies and procedures to ensure fit with IFSCA requirements and the wider Group functions.
- Develop and build relationships with GIFT City and Indian banking partners, assisting with onboarding and ongoing enhanced due diligence.
- Ensure that data protection obligations are met and adhered to.
- Work with the wider Group Compliance framework to ensure that requirements in GIFT City and India are met while maintaining group standards and risk appetite.
- Support Group Risk & Compliance functions on an ad hoc basis.
- Maintain existing policies, bringing about procedures which bring pre-authorised policies and statements into meaningful existence.
- Engage with the IFSCA to meet regulatory and financial crime reporting requirements.
- Acting as a subject matter expert run and maintain localised AML, CTF and data protection training programmes for all GIFT and India staff.
- Act as a Country Representative for the Group Risk Committee to explore new opportunities, maintain regulatory compliance across all jurisdictions that the Group operates in and engage in regulatory horizon scanning.
- Engage and work with the Product Team as a compliance subject matter expert to assist in evolving existing products and bringing to market new services.
- Undertake, if required, applications for additional permissions required within GIFT and India to allow for further product expansion.
- Determine an appropriate external auditor and oversee annual AML audits.
- Maintain and evolve systems and controls in accordance with IFSCA and India requirements as well as ensuring that such systems and controls remained aligned with Interpolitan Money Group risk appetite.
- Develop and deliver meaningful management information to evidence oversight and controls to Interpolitan Money (GIFT City) Ltd and the wider Interpolitan Money Group.
