paxos - Senior Compliance & Legal Associate, Paxos Issuance Europe Oy

• Own and run defined EU compliance operations workstreams for PIE (e.g., AML/CFT operations oversight, onboarding flows, sanctions and PEP screening, transaction and blockchain monitoring, specific FIN‑FSA/BoF reports, FATCA or other EU reporting, internal trackers and calendars), ensuring that filings and control activities are timely, accurate, well‑supported and consistently documented for audit/regulatory review. • Provide second‑line oversight of AML/CFT operations executed by global Compliance Operations (and relevant vendors): monitor queue health, backlogs, and SLA/KPI performance for onboarding, screening, transaction monitoring, investigations and customer refresh/EDD; partner with Ops leads to identify control gaps, implement remediations, and track QA/QC findings through to closure. • Lead the preparation, coordination and quality‑control of selected regulatory reports, filings and information packages (for example, SAR/STR, FIN‑FSA RFIs, EMI/CASP documentation, policies and procedures), including structuring input requests, reviewing contributions from cross‑functional teams, and maintaining clear evidence and versioning. • Take primary ownership of one or more CASP‑ or MiCA‑related documentation domains, working closely with Regulatory Legal and external counsel. • Conduct and synthesize legal and regulatory research on new or evolving EU and Finnish requirements affecting PIE (e.g., MiCA, AMLR/AMLD, DAC8/CARF, DORA) and draft concise internal memos, decision notes or implementation proposals for the EU MLRO and Regulatory Legal team. • Help draft, update and localize internal policies, procedures and manuals relevant to PIE’s obligations (e.g., KYC/EDD, transaction and blockchain monitoring, sanctions, governance and internal control, regulatory reporting), in close collaboration with the global Compliance Operations and Risk Governance & Oversight teams. • Take structured notes and track actions from regulatory meetings, governance forums and external advisor calls; maintain central trackers; and drive follow‑ups to ensure that commitments made to regulators and senior management are clearly documented, owned and completed. • Support regulatory change management by monitoring relevant EU/EEA and Finnish developments, updating trackers and documentation, and coordinating implementation work across Compliance, Legal, Product, Operations, Finance and other stakeholders. • Act as a senior coordination point for EU‑related regulatory and compliance workstreams helping to prioritize, sequence and de‑risk the work in partnership with the EU MLRO and global teams.