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Regulatory Compliance Officer, EU

Lightspark· Legal & Compliance
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Estonia€52.9k - €62kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Hands-on regulatory compliance professional responsible for the compliance framework of Lightspark's Estonian regulated entity, focusing on monitoring, outsourcing oversight, fit and proper assessments, conflicts of interest and market-abuse controls, and regulatory reporting within a second-line function.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain our internal policies and procedures, including input gathering, redlines, version control and approval packs.
  • Prepare internal compliance reporting and maintain the compliance issue log.
  • Support the preparation and review of supervisory reports to the regulator, including consistency checks and submission deadlines, and responses to regulator inquiries.
  • Run the compliance monitoring program, including testing adherence to internal procedures, following up on findings and tracking corrective actions.
  • Prepare compliance assessments for new products and material changes.
  • Run day-to-day outsourcing oversight, including pre-outsourcing analyses, risk assessments, regulator notifications, the outsourcing register and review cycles.
  • Administer the fit and proper assessment cycle for managing body members and key function holders.
  • Operate the conflicts of interest and market-abuse controls, including disclosures, declarations, first-level reviews, and approval requests.
  • Support complaints handling, including reviews, registers, root-cause analyses and consistency with earlier decisions.
  • Organize compliance training for staff and maintain training records.
  • Monitor EU and Estonian regulatory developments and prepare concise overviews for management.
  • Work with Legal, Risk, AML, Operations, Product and Finance to embed compliance into daily operations.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in compliance, legal, internal audit or financial supervision in financial sectors or related authorities/consultancies
  • University degree in law, finance, business or comparable field (preferred)
  • Solid foundation in EU financial services regulation (EMD, PSD2, MiCAR) and related EBA/ESMA guidelines, plus Estonian regulatory framework and supervisory practice
  • Strong attention to detail and discipline in maintaining registers, records and deadlines
  • Precision in drafting and policy redlines
  • Independent judgment appropriate for a second-line function
  • Strong organizational skills for recurring deadlines and ad hoc requests in a regulated environment
  • Good communication skills to explain compliance requirements to non-compliance audiences
  • Experience with fit and proper assessments, outsourcing oversight, supervisory reporting or compliance monitoring programs (a plus)
  • Fluency in Estonian and English with professional regulatory vocabulary

Skills

Required:Regulatory compliancePolicy development and managementRegulatory reporting

Benefits

  • The gross monthly base salary range for this role is €4,400 – €5,170.
  • Eligible for an annual performance bonus and equity.
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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