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Compliance Officer 🔥


The job in short

As a Compliance Officer, it is your job to make sure that Backbase Services is conducting its Cloud Services within the Backbase-as-a-Service product (Managed Hosting and BaaS DevOps) and operations in full compliance with all national and international laws and regulations that pertain to the financial industry and information security standards and best practises. There is both an ethical component and a pragmatic component to compliance in helping Backbase to manage risks, securing data and maintaining their positive reputation.

You report to the Compliance Director and are a part of the consolidated Compliance function across the Backbase organisation.

Meet the job

  • Creating and contributing to building policies in regards to internal and external requirements (e.g. information security, data privacy) and in line with business goals and objectives.
  • Ensure annual policy reviews are performed and aligned with business objectives
  • Maintain and enhance the design, implementation and operating effectiveness of processes and controls of the compliance program to ensure BaaS product successfully maintains, amongst others, it’s SOC 2 Type II attestation and PCI-DSS compliance. 
  • Facilitate all functions with the compliance program embedded into operations e.g.
    • Ensure annual table-top testing is performed - response policies (e.g. BCP/DR, Incident Management) are in place and effective.
    • Support the Enterprise supplier risk assessment program for BaaS vendors.
    • Ensure sufficient training and awareness sessions are conducted for the business, e.g. information security awareness, privacy and other compliance initiatives.
  • Periodically conduct risk assessments and report on identified threats, risks and their treatment plans to Backbase Services management and Board. 
  • Work closely with stakeholders (e.g. Legal on data protection and privacy related topics). 
  • Support Backbase Services customers with compliance requests required for their regulators and  assist when needed with RFP and vendor assessment responses.
  • Internal assessment of adherence to all relevant policies, controls and processes, and implementation of recommended remediation. 
  • Manage compliance related projects to meet specific policy or regulatory requirements and prepare for upcoming audits.
  • Keep up with industry, information security and regulatory changes. Monitor alignment of the compliance program with these changes and Backbase’s business strategy and objectives. 

How about you?

You are a passionate, proactive and professional individual with a positive and energetic “Let’s get it done!” attitude.  You raise your standards to maintain a high level of ethics and accountability in your role and managing multiple initiatives concurrently is of no challenge to you. You enjoy working in a team towards shared goals, you influence others without authority as you have great interpersonal skills and lots of knowledge to share.

You are a strong promoter of process integration and automation for compliance needs and you are able to guide your engineering colleagues to automate the needed processes (e.g. automated SDLC activity reporting, privacy by design) to reduce manual work and paper policies. 

Qualifications

  • 6-8 years of relevant working experience experience with the practical implementation of compliance programs in an international environment
  • Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s desired
  • Professional certifications (e.g. CISA, CISM, CISSP, CCEP, CIPP, ) desired
  • English, written and spoken

Business, product and industry knowledge

  • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practises
  • Agile/Scrum/SDLC working methods 
  • Banking laws and regulations, e.g. PSD2, EBA guidelines
  • Privacy laws and regulations, e.g. GDPR, CCPA
  • Relevant security frameworks, e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, CSA-STAR, NIST

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