Responsibilities

Licensing Strategy & Execution

• Design and implement a unified global licensing strategy, ensuring consistency across regional approaches.
• Work closely with regional licensing personnel to assess regulatory pathways, evaluate market feasibility, and prioritise jurisdictions.
• Oversee and guide the preparation, submission, and management of licensing applications and / or other regulatory authorisation processes, in collaboration with regional teams.
• Ensure alignment between regional licensing efforts and global business priorities.

Regional Coordination & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the central point of coordination for licensing and regulatory authorisation activity across all regions, ensuring standards, documentation, and approaches remain cohesive.
• Provide direct support, guidance, and escalation oversight to regional licensing personnel.
• Align regulatory authorisation efforts with regulatory affairs leads to coordinate regulatory engagement strategies across regions.

Regulatory Engagement

• Act as a senior representative in regulatory engagements where global coordination or executive-level involvement is required.
• Support regional teams in interactions with local regulators, offering strategic guidance and ensuring consistent messaging.

Operational Readiness & Governance

• Coordinate with regional teams to ensure their understanding around local regulatory requirements such that they are prepared to meet jurisdictional authorisation obligations, where needed and / or desired, including governance, capital, operational, and reporting requirements.
• Maintain global oversight of regulatory authorisation conditions, ensuring local compliance is consistent with global policies and standards.
• Lead responses to cross-regional regulatory queries or supervisory reviews related to authorisation activities.

Market Expansion & Risk Analysis

• Work with regional personnel to conduct regulatory feasibility assessments for new markets and product expansions.
• Provide strategic recommendations to executive leadership on prioritisation of authorisation efforts and regulatory risk.

Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor the global regulatory and licensing team, including regional leads and supporting personnel.
• Build capability, consistency, and knowledge-sharing across regions to strengthen the company’s global licensing and authorisations function.
• Promote a culture of regulatory excellence, transparency, and disciplined execution.

Requirements

Experience & Expertise

• 10+ years of experience in regulatory licensing and authorisations, regulatory affairs, compliance, or related fields (financial services, payments, fintech, crypto, or technology).
• Proven experience managing complex regulatory authorisation processes across multiple regions or markets.
• Strong understanding of diverse regulatory frameworks and supervisory expectations globally.
• Experience working within or leading a regional or matrixed team structure is highly preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Exceptional cross-regional coordination and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong project management capabilities and ability to manage complex, multi-jurisdictional workstreams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to synthesise regional inputs into a coherent global strategy.
• Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline.
• Ability to build trust and credibility with regulators and internal leadership.