As our Researcher for compliance, you will play a critical role in expanding our products into new markets, and embrace challenges along the way, such as monitoring local legislation. In your position you will help us overcome these challenges by researching local legal regulations, creating a gap analysis and co-creating a development plan that will ensure a successful rollout of Mews in a new market. In this position you will cooperate with our product teams, our customer success teams and communicate with 3rd parties, including outside development companies, tax advisors and governmental offices, this will include project management. Prioritisation will be key to success based on time and resource constraints. You will oversee requirements and implementation. With strong planning skills and effective communication abilities, you will work proactively on keeping our products compliant across all active jurisdictions as well as enabling new ones.
✅ Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Document legal setup in our existing markets
- Maintain documentation of legal setup in our markets
- Research legislation of both existing and potential markets and identify gaps for expansion
- Create internal documentation necessary for expansion into new territories
- Own conformance and regression testing for compliance, defining relevant test scenarios
- Suggest product opportunities for making our product proactively compliant
- Own the legal setup of our platform where required
- Be a consultant to our customer facing teams in cases where deep legislation knowledge is needed
- Work closely with our product and engineering teams to identify and unlock new territories to sell Mews
- Maintain compliance in all expanded territories
- Pro-actively communicate any upcoming changes and participate in planning roadmaps with the teams
- Conduct training for GTM teams including Customer Success, Onboarding, and Solution Architects
- Project management, clear communication and overseeing implementation of scope of work
- Although this role is focused on PMS compliance initially, we expect within time a full compliance understanding is gained with the wider research team focusing on POS or other Mews products/services when required.
🤝️ You’ll be a great fit if you bring a few of the below with you:
- A minimum 2+ years’ experience within the Hospitality and F&B, POS or financial services industry, preferably in a compliance related role.
- Fluency in English and Spanish, knowledge of any other European languages is highly valued.
- Bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies, Regulatory Compliance, Computer Science, Business Management or related field would be an advantage
- Experience with regulations in one or more of the following countries/regions preferred: IBERIA, Italy, Southern and Central America
- Effective communication with stakeholders, local authorities and 3rd parties
- Knowledge of PMS, POS systems and Jira
- Ability to translate legal requirements into actionable tasks and requirements for the product and engineering teams
- Strong understanding of finance related legislation (understanding of terms such as VAT, consumption, deposit, etc.)
- Comfortable with understanding the complexity of technical documents
- Demonstrated the ability to research and understand legal documents
- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
- Enthusiasm to deep dive into document findings in a comprehensive way