Hybrid Senior Compliance Associate

at Coinbase

• Job title: Senior Compliance Associate
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: €87,125 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Luxembourg

About the role

• Senior Compliance Associate managing Compliance framework implementation at Coinbase Luxembourg. Collaborating with teams on regulatory compliance and contributing to local policy development.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the maintenance of a robust Compliance Monitoring Plan (CMP), aligned with risk-based principles and applicable regulatory framework.
• Assist in performing periodic thematic reviews across key regulatory obligations and collaborate with the Central Compliance Testing & Assurance team to ensure appropriate second line coverage.
• Execute tasks to support regulatory horizon scanning and impact assessments for emerging laws.
• Assist in drafting, maintaining, and updating local compliance policies and frameworks, ensuring alignment with local EU/Luxembourg regulatory requirements and group-level standards.
• Contribute to the maintenance of the Compliance Risk Assessment (CRA) and the CMP.
• Prepare drafts and coordinate materials for regulatory reports, dashboards and presentations for regulatory engagement and internal governance bodies.
• Support the team in responding to regulatory queries and preparing for inspections.
• Provide timely and practical guidance on routine Compliance matters to business and operational teams.
• Support the Compliance by Design process through initial review of new products and services to ensure compliance from the design stage.
• Execute monitoring tasks related to Consumer Protection matters focusing on Conflict of Interest, transparency and disclosures, in line with applicable laws and regulations.
• Maintain registers (e.g. controls, conflict of interest, breaches, complaints) and assist with the governance structure of the Compliance function.
• Assist in liaising and preparing materials for internal governance bodies.
• Support the Chief Compliance Officer to ensure effective implementation of the AML/CFT obligations.
• Contribute to the preparation of annual regulatory reports (e.g. AML Risk Assessment, RC Report, Annual Compliance Summary Report, Annual Complaints report) and support FIU/LE engagements.
• Coordinate the training content and audience for Compliance-related trainings (e.g. AML/CFT, MiCA, whistleblowing).
• Liaise with the Central team in charge of training to ensure local Compliance modules are delivered to all in-scope training audience.

Requirements

• At least 4-6 years of experience in Compliance, preferably in Luxembourg or an EU-regulated environment.
• Solid working knowledge of EU financial regulations, including MiCA, PSD2, MiFID II, PSD, AMLD, DORA, GDPR.
• Experience interacting with regulators and auditors.
• Experience in policy drafting, monitoring/testing.
• Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills with fluency in English and French as a plus.
• Strong Ownership, positive energy and a Deliver Results/Efficient Execution mindset.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision