Senior Compliance Manager

We are hiring for Senior Compliance Manager
📍 Location: Bangalore
💼 Employment Type: Full-time
🧑‍💼 Experience: 4–8 years
🏢 Function: Compliance
About the Role
mPokket is looking for a Senior Compliance Manager to strengthen and manage its regulatory compliance framework. The role will oversee regulatory reporting, RBI regulatory change management, digital-lending compliance, AML/KYC, and compliance monitoring and testing to support adherence to applicable regulatory requirements.
The ideal candidate will bring strong NBFC or fintech compliance experience, sound regulatory knowledge, and the ability to work cross-functionally to translate regulatory requirements into effective controls and processes.
Key Responsibilities
Regulatory Compliance & Reporting: Maintain the Board-approved compliance framework and policies, manage RBI regulatory returns and submissions, and maintain compliance calendars, registers, and records.
Regulatory Change Management: Track RBI circulars, directions, and regulatory updates, assess their applicability, and coordinate implementation across relevant teams.
Digital-Lending Compliance: Monitor adherence to the RBI Digital Lending framework, including LSP/DLA arrangements, Key Fact Statements (KFS), customer interfaces, due diligence, and outsourcing requirements.
AML/KYC & PMLA: Support AML/KYC compliance programmes, assist the Principal Officer with applicable FIU-IND reporting, and help identify and assess suspicious or fraudulent financial activity.
Compliance Monitoring & Testing: Conduct compliance reviews, sample transactions and processes, document findings, and ensure corrective actions are tracked through closure.
Risk Assessment & Governance: Assess compliance risks across products and processes, support regulatory inspections and audits, and maintain policies and standard operating procedures.
Stakeholder Management: Advise business teams on compliance requirements for new products and processes, and coordinate with internal stakeholders, auditors, and regulators.
Training & Awareness: Support compliance awareness and employee training on regulatory obligations and the identification and reporting of suspicious activities.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree or above in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field.
4–8 years of compliance experience within an NBFC, bank, or fintech.
Strong working knowledge of RBI regulations for NBFCs, including Scale-Based Regulation, the Digital Lending framework, PMLA/KYC, Fair Practices Code, and outsourcing norms.
Experience preparing RBI regulatory returns and managing regulatory changes.
Strong analytical, documentation, reporting, and stakeholder management skills.
Proficiency in Excel and digital tools for data analysis and compliance reporting.
Good to Have
Experience with an app-based or digital-lending NBFC or fintech.
Experience in compliance monitoring and testing.
Professional qualification such as CS, CA, LL.B., or a recognised compliance certification.
Skills & Competencies
Attention to detail, regulatory interpretation, risk assessment, effective communication, cross-functional collaboration, ownership, and high standards of integrity and discretion.

Work arrangement
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