Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager

Solaris is Europe’s leading embedded finance platform, pioneering Banking-as-a-Service to bridge the gap between financial technology and licensed banking. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Solaris enables fintechs, digital ecosystems, and multinationals to embed accounts, cards, lending, and payments directly into their own products, creating seamless financial experiences for their users. As a fully licensed German bank, Solaris combines the highest standards of IT security and regulatory resilience with a modular, highly scalable infrastructure.

Today, Solaris is driving the next evolution of financial services by transitioning into an AI-native banking platform, ensuring European businesses can deploy secure, adaptable financial products at scale.

• Central Liaison: Serve as the primary point of contact for external regulatory bodies (BaFin, Bundesbank, Einlagensicherung) and external audit firms (e.g., Year End Auditor).
• Correspondence Management: Draft, review, and finalize formal responses, regulatory filings, and statements, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and professional diplomacy.
• Deadline Governance: Establish and enforce a rigorous tracking system to guarantee that all regulatory and audit inquiries are answered strictly within required timelines.
• Strategic Gatekeeping: Critically review all outgoing regulatory communication to ensure the content reflects the institution's strategic goals, current management directives, and internal risk policies.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate closely with internal departments (Risk Management, Compliance, Finance, Legal, Operations and Internal Audit) to gather necessary data and synthesize complex, multi-disciplinary information into cohesive regulatory responses.
• Executive Advisory: Prepare briefings and advise the Management Board on ongoing regulatory dialogues, potential areas of friction, and recommended communication strategies.
• Audit Facilitation: Coordinate the end-to-end lifecycle of external audits and regulatory inspections (e.g., BaFin special audits / Sonderprüfungen according to § 44 KWG).
• Information Flow: Manage the secure and structured provision of documentation and data to auditors.
• Remediation Tracking: Oversee the internal tracking of audit findings and regulatory mandates, ensuring that remediation plans are communicated effectively back to the regulators.

Depending on your level of experience, your responsibilities and scope of role will range. We don’t care much about fancy titles, but rather about real personal and professional development, as laid out in our learning framework. Let’s figure together out how you can contribute to our team.

• Master’s degree in Law, Economics, Business Administration, Finance, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of professional experience in Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, Legal, or Audit within the financial services sector or at a Big 4 auditing/consulting firm.
• In-depth, practical knowledge of the German and European banking regulatory frameworks (e.g., KWG, MaRisk, CRR/CRD, WpHG, and relevant BaFin circulars).
• Proven experience in managing complex, time-sensitive, cross-functional projects, particularly involving regulatory requests or audit management.
• Fluent-level German language skills (mandatory for formal legal/regulatory correspondence) and fluent English, with an exceptional command of written business and legal terminology in both languages.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to navigate sensitive dialogues with authoritative external bodies and handle high-pressure audit situations smoothly.
• Ability to distill complex, technical, or legal issues into clear, strategically aligned, and persuasive management summaries and regulatory responses.
• Confidence to challenge internal stakeholders (including senior management) to secure high-quality input on tight deadlines.
• A calm, structured approach to working under strict, non-negotiable regulatory deadlines.
• Absolute precision in written communication, recognizing that regulatory correspondence carries significant legal and reputational weight.