FEC Counsel

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

FEC Counsel

Our fast-paced FEC Governance Team (part of the wider AML Compliance Team) is looking for a FEC Counsel with solid experience in Financial Economic Crime (FEC) matters. The FEC Governance Team is tasked with keeping track of regulatory developments, digesting and translating them into actionable guidance, maintaining and enhancing the FEC policies and procedures, and conducting the enterprise-wide integrity risk assessment across the Adyen Group. For this position, we are specifically seeking a candidate with strong expertise in US FEC regulatory frameworks, particularly OFAC sanctions and AML/CFT requirements, who can translate these into practical guidance for a global business. 

What you’ll do

• Identify and interpret (new) obligations under applicable US and international laws and regulations related to Financial Economic Crime, including sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML), and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT); 

• Provide counsel on US sanctions regimes (including OFAC regulations, Executive Orders, and related measures), with particular attention to potential secondary sanctions risks for non-US affiliates, customers, or counterparties; 

• Translate identified obligations into relevant policies and procedures to be effectively communicated and implemented across the business, ensuring alignment with both US requirements and Adyen’s global framework;

• Perform integrity risk assessments in accordance with applicable triggers, assess impact (including potential US sanctions violations), and coordinate follow-up actions in line with the overall integrity risk assessment process;

• Support and advise in connection with regulatory inquiries, external and internal audits, and interactions with US and other relevant supervisors; 

• Represent the wider AML Compliance Team on a variety of workstreams to establish governance strategies that align with global objectives and ensure controlled and compliant growth; and,  

• Consider opportunities and risks from a variety of angles to achieve compliant solutions that align with commercial and strategic objectives.

Who you are

• You have 5+ years of relevant experience in a compliance and/or regulatory function within the financial services or payments industry, and/or at a US regulatory agency;&n