Gerente General - Colombia at ARQ Finance

<h2><strong>About ARQ</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">ARQ is one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world. Our mission is to redefine how people interact with money across borders, building the infrastructure to move value seamlessly. We're still early in our journey, which means every person who joins shapes the future of our product, culture, and growth. If you're excited by big challenges, global impact, and the chance to grow fast with a world-class team, ARQ is the place to do it.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will lead ARQ's regulated entity in your jurisdiction, serving as the accountable executive before local regulators and supervisory authorities. Your core focus will be securing and maintaining our operating licenses, navigating the regulatory approval process end to end, and building the operational infrastructure required for ARQ to operate legally and sustainably in market. You will manage the entity's day-to-day operations, overseeing governance structures, internal controls, and operational processes, ensuring the entity is well-run and positioned for sustainable growth as the business scales. You will also own the local credit risk framework, ensuring lending activity is managed responsibly and in line with both regulatory expectations and ARQ's credit strategy and risk frameworks. You will work closely with global legal, risk, operations, product and compliance teams.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will be accountable for the regulated entity's licensing standing, compliance posture, and operational readiness within your jurisdiction, working in close coordination with global teams.</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own end-to-end operational management of the regulated entity, including AML, KYC and KYB, fraud, safeguarding, complaints, regulatory reporting, internal controls, customer support, and audit readiness</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ensure full compliance with local laws, license conditions, and internal policies, maintaining a robust risk management and control framework</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Serve as the primary point of contact for local supervisory authorities, leading regulatory inspections, implementation tables, and audits</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Drive the entity through each stage of the regulatory approval timeline, from constitution approval through to go-live audit, ensuring milestone readiness at every step</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Draft, implement, and operate local credit and risk policies in line with regulatory frameworks and the regulator expectations</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the local credit risk framework, including drafting and operationalizing credit policies, overseeing credit decisioning processes, and ensuring lending activi