Senior Compliance Officer

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Aquent is partnering with a leading technology institution that stands at the forefront of payment innovation, providing essential services across a vast economic region. This organization is deeply committed to maintaining the highest standards of regulatory compliance and operational excellence, ensuring seamless and secure financial transactions that power economies.

Are you a seasoned compliance professional eager to make a profound impact on critical third-party relationships? This is an exceptional opportunity to take ownership, implement robust frameworks, and directly contribute to the security and stability of vital payment services. You will be instrumental in bolstering the third-party and outsourcing management framework, ensuring the vendor ecosystem operates with impeccable integrity and strict adherence to stringent regulatory standards, particularly focusing on DORA and EBA requirements. Your expertise will drive day-to-day execution, identify crucial gaps, and coordinate with internal stakeholders to fortify operational resilience and compliance posture, making a tangible difference in the organization’s success.

What You’ll Do:

• Enhance the existing vendor list, ensuring all relevant data is accurately captured and maintained.
• Review all vendors providing services to the organization to ensure they are fully in scope of our management framework.
• Drive remediation efforts for third-party vendors, ensuring all contracts are compliant with DORA and EBA regulatory requirements.
• Run Business Impact Analysis (BIA) alignment with third-party requirements.
• Ensure all vendor-related governance and oversight activities are accurately documented and maintained in the master vendor inventory, including reporting, risk assessments, remediation actions, ownership, oversight activities, key deadlines, and ongoing monitoring requirements.
• Develop comprehensive Exit Plans in conjunction with internal stakeholders.
• Execute thorough Risk Assessments of critical vendors.
• Set up and maintain robust Vendor reporting dashboards, including Service Level Metrics.

Must-Have Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on experience in DORA third-party management requirements.
• Proven expertise across vendor onboarding, scope definition, risk assessment, contractual requirements, and ongoing oversight.
• Highly operational, proactive, and a self-starter comfortable owning and executing day-to-day activities independently.
• Demonstrated ability to identify gaps, coordinate with internal stakeholders, and ensure third-party management activities are appropriately documented, remediated, and monitored.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications:

• Experience with automation to streamline recurring compliance and third-party management processes.

About Aquent Talent:

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Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.