About finmid
At finmid, we’re building infrastructure that seamlessly integrates access to capital for SMEs directly into the platforms they use daily. We leverage technology, data, and strategic partnerships to deliver financing solutions that significantly outperform traditional financial services, offering SMEs faster, simpler, and more transparent access to funding. As we expand across Europe, our Latvian subsidiary plays a critical role in achieving our mission of transforming SME financing through novel solutions to deliver a 10x better product than what banks offer.
We are licensed as a European Crowdfunding Service Provider by the Bank of Latvia. Our stack combines regulated financial infrastructure with modern software engineering. The gap between those two things is exactly where this role lives.
Role Mission
Turn legal and regulatory requirements into automated policies, processes, and control systems - at scale.
This is not a role for someone who wants to be a career compliance officer. It is a role for someone who wants to build a compliance machine.
You will take the regulatory environment - ECSP regulation, DORA, AML/CFT frameworks, Bank of Latvia requirements, GDPR, and what comes next - and treat it as a set of operational requirements to be designed against. Your output will not be policies in folders. It will be working processes and controls: well-designed workflows, sensible automation, and clear infrastructure that enforces compliance without manual effort at every step.
You will do this as an early member of a small, high-output team in Riga, with direct access to finmid's engineering, legal, and product functions across Europe.
What you will build
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**A Regulatory Translation Engine: **You will develop the process of taking raw regulatory text - regulations, guidelines, Bank of Latvia circulars - and systematically breaking it down into operational components: what must happen, when, in response to what, with what evidence. The output is not a summary document. It is a clear operational blueprint that feeds directly into process and control design.
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**Automated Compliance Workflows: **Every compliance process that can be automated, should be. You will design and implement workflows for onboarding controls, ongoing monitoring, periodic review, and regulatory reporting - using automation tools, software platforms, and smart process design. The target state: compliance processes that run themselves and escalate only when human judgment is genuinely required.
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A Policy Engine: Policies should be living documents, not static files. You will own the architecture of finmid’s internal compliance policies - structured, version-controlled, and designed so that when regulation changes, updates propagate automatically across the processes they govern rather than getting lost in a folder somewhere.
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Monitoring and Alerting Systems: You will build finmid’s internal visibility into its compliance position - defining what to measure, setting up the data flows that make measurement possible, and creating dashboards that give management a live view rather than a quarterly one. The goal is proactive detection, not retrospective discovery.
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AI-Augmented Compliance Tooling: You will identify and deploy AI tools where they genuinely reduce compliance workload - document analysis, regulatory change detection, AML screening, and audit trail generation. You will evaluate these tools with clear eyes, implement the ones that work, and make sure they actually connect to the processes they are meant to support.
Key Reponsibilities
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Translate EU and Latvian regulatory requirements (ECSP, DORA, AML/CFT, GDPR) into structured operational specifications - triggering conditions, required controls, evidence standards, exception handling.
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Serve as the primary compliance contact for the Bank of Latvia and other EU regulatory counterparts - maintaining relationships, managing reporting obligations, and responding to supervisory enquiries.
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Design and implement automated compliance workflows across onboarding, transaction monitoring, periodic review, and regulatory reporting - minimising human touchpoints at each stage.
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Own the design of finmid’s compliance policy suite: clear structure, organised change management, and a process that keeps policies aligned with regulation as the regulatory landscape evolves.
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Build and maintain internal compliance monitoring: define what needs to be measured, set up the data flows that make it measurable, and produce dashboards that give management a live view of the compliance position.
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Evaluate, deploy, and integrate AI and automation tooling into the compliance function - with particular focus on compliance screening, regulatory change detection, and audit trail automation.
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Work directly with product and legal teams to embed compliance requirements into how products are designed - so compliance is built in from the start, not retrofitted after launch.
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Regularly pressure-test the compliance framework - running scenario analyses that identify gaps and weaknesses before regulators or real-world incidents do.
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Stay ahead of the EU regulatory roadmap (AML Authority, Digital Finance Package) and translate forthcoming requirements into process and control changes before they become live obligations.
**What you need to be successful **(requirements)
Experience
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2–3 years in an environment with high analytical demands and structured problem-solving: top-tier consulting, investment banking, Big Law, strategy operations, or a high-performance technology company.
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No prior compliance experience required. Regulatory knowledge can be built. Systems thinking cannot.
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No law degree required. Legal expertise is secondary to structured problem-solving and sharp analytical instinct.
Capabilities
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Exceptional ability to read complex regulatory text and extract its operational logic - what must happen, when, in response to what, with what evidence.
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Strong process and operational design instincts: you naturally think about how things should work end-to-end, where the failure points are, and how to close them.
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Practical curiosity about automation tools and technology. You do not need a technical background - you need to be willing to get hands-on with software tools and work closely with people who build them.
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Strong written precision - the ability to produce specifications, policies, and control documentation that are unambiguous and implementation-ready.
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Openness to AI tools and a clear-eyed view of where they genuinely help and where they create new problems. No technical expertise required - judgment and curiosity are what matter here.
Mindset
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You will do your best work here if you have a background in structured analytical environments — consulting, banking, law, or strategy — and feel frustrated by the gap between the rigour of those environments and the manual, process-heavy world of traditional compliance.
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You are comfortable with ambiguity and motivated by problems that do not yet have established solutions.
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You are self-directed enough to operate without a compliance department above you and technically curious enough to engage directly with automation tooling, APIs, and AI agents as part of your daily workflow.
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You have intellectual range: you can move between regulatory text, process design, software tools, and management reporting without losing coherence.
Benefits
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Though generally we see ourselves as “distributed first”, this role is based out of Latvia, where you can work remote or on-site.
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We are flexible and cover whatever you need to be as productive as possible.
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Home office stipend.
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30 days off.
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Meaningful equity.
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Open-minded and transparent culture that includes regular get-together meetings (e.g., All Hands, Brown Bag Lunch, Offsites)
We're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who think out of the box and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.