# Senior Regulatory Counsel

**Company**: Adyen
**Location**: Mumbai
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Adyen is seeking a Senior Regulatory Counsel with extensive experience in banking, financial services, payments, or card networks. As a senior member of the team, you will deeply influence the importance of regulatory compliance in India and act as a strategic business partner to both local and global stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

- Monitor regulatory developments in India, including Reserve Bank of India circulars and policies, and advise on their impact and implementation on Adyen's local and global operations.

- Operationalize complex regulatory requirements in India and monitor compliance on an ongoing basis.

- Provide pragmatic legal and regulatory advice to internal stakeholders to accelerate growth in India.

- Manage various routine and ad hoc regulatory requests, filings, engagements, and reporting obligations with the RBI and other relevant authorities.

- Represent the regulatory team on cross-functional projects to frame regulatory strategy and align it with global organizational objectives.

- Advise on and negotiate various agreements with merchants, service providers, and external partners while ensuring compliant solutions align with commercial strategy.

- Analyze and summarize regulatory policies, guidelines, bills, and acts.

- Apply expert regulatory expertise to provide exemplary advice on complex regulatory matters across multiple domains.

- Shape Adyen's regulatory and integrity frameworks, acting as a subject matter expert for both internal and external stakeholders.

- Strike a balance between risk and commercial needs, guiding other team members to achieve the same.

- Understand the mindset and policies of regulators and auditors to make strategic regulatory decisions.

- Adapt communication style and messaging to different audiences, providing clear and concise updates and challenges.

- Advocate Adyen's position on complex matters to external stakeholders and effectively influence their views.

- Provide mentorship to junior colleagues, applying a multiplier effect across the team.

- Initiate and own complex, high-impact cross-functional projects, managing stakeholders and resources effectively while navigating roadblocks.

- Identify opportunities to involve junior colleagues in projects to support their professional growth.

- Assist with creating Global Function OKRs and develop dedicated program management for projects within the team.

- Identify large-scale projects that drive organizational efficiencies globally with a 10x mentality.

- Offer guidance in complex situations and clear roadblocks that hinder regional or global progress.

Requirements:

- Qualified as a lawyer in India.

- Fully proficient in English.

- At least 10+ years of post-qualification experience in regulatory or compliance teams of RBI-regulated entities or have extensively advised such entities.

- Deep working knowledge of the payments, banking, and/or financial services industry, including acquiring and card networks.

- Analytical thinker who can set and monitor policies required to ensure controlled and sustainable growth.

- Solid interpersonal skills and the ability to liaise with diverse internal and external stakeholders and merchants across different cultures.

- Must already be or be willing to reside in Mumbai, India.

## Skills

### Required
- regulatory compliance
- banking
- financial services
- payments
- card networks
- legal advice
- regulatory monitoring
- operational excellence
- strategic thinking
- interpersonal skills

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