Audit & Regulatory Management Lead, Regulatory Affairs

<h2><strong>Who we are </strong></h2> <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.</span></p> <h3><strong>About the team</strong></h3> <p>We’re looking for an experienced regulatory licensing professional to manage our Audit &amp; Regulatory Affairs team. In this role, you will coordinate with Stripe’s Legal, Financial Crimes, Finance, Accounting, Product, and Security teams, to (i) coordinate and submit regulatory license applications; (ii) manage license renewals and licence maintenance items; (iii) manage US regulatory exams and inquiries; and (iv) oversee other aspects of the team’s day-to-day activities, with a focus on licensing and exam activities related to digital assets.</p> <p>Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. We build the most powerful and flexible tools for running an internet business. We handle billions of dollars each year and enable millions of users around the world to scale faster and more efficiently by building their businesses on Stripe. More than 80% of American adults bought something through Stripe in the last year.</p> <p>Namely, Stripe’s North America regulatory affairs program plays a critical role in ensuring Stripe effectively manages its regulatory requirements and ongoing regulatory obligations for certain licensed US and Canadian entities. The role provides an excellent opportunity for a talented candidate to deploy their cross-functional licensing and regulatory exam management skills in a fast-paced and rigorous environment, enhance their regulatory risk management expertise, learn about digital assets, carve out opportunities to grow and develop, as well as lead a team of skilled and talented professionals. The successful candidate will gain wide ranging exposure to Stripe's diverse range of business lines, senior leadership, and the governance and workings of the organization.</p> <p>The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who is exceptionally organized, thorough and detail-oriented, with a background in financial services, payments, digital assets, or other regulated sectors. In this role, you will get a chance to help build, enhance, mature and evolve our regulatory licensing and exam programs and be a key cross-functional partner. Stripe is both a technology company and a financial services company, and you will need to be comfortable in both worlds.</p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2> <p>The Audit &amp; Regulatory Management Lead will help to ensure that all of the relevant components of the regulatory affairs program for licensed US and Canadian entities remain current and compliant, oversee managing and executing US regulatory examinations, and support our Compliance Audit Strategy, with the expectation to build a team who, in due time, will manage and drive exam oversight globally.</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Coordinate responses to state regulatory inquiries, filings, forms, applications, renewals, surety bonds, and anything else required for license maintenance</li> <li>Assist in managing regulatory exams and inquiries, responding to regularly exam matters and monitoring the implementation and closure of any remediation items</li> <li>Stay abreast of regulatory changes, particularly with respect to digital assets, and how they impact regulatory affairs’ licensing and exam management program activities and responsibilities</li> <li>Establish and maintain relationships with internal and external partners and business units, relevant state and local agencies, licensing consultants, and outside counsel&nbsp;</li> <li>Work proactively with Legal, Finance, Financial Crimes, Affiliate Officers, Product, and other key stakeholders on managing the regulatory affairs’s licensing and examination program&nbsp;</li> <li>Support any end-to-end licensing, examination and related ad hoc inquiries as required in partnership with key stakeholders&nbsp;</li> <li>Engage in special projects in support of the regulatory affairs program in North America</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;&