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.

Why join Solaris?

• 🚀 We are fundamentally redesigning banking processes around AI orchestration, standardized modular building blocks, and embedded regulatory compliance.
• 🎯 We combine tech and banking in dedicated hubs - driving the technology infrastructure out of Berlin and banking operations out of Frankfurt.
• 💡 Through our internal mobility, growth opportunities, and the Solaris Academy, we offer continuous learning tracks, AI ambassador mentorship, and upskilling to keep your skills ahead of the curve.
• ⚖️ We foster a workplace rooted in integrity, proactive risk management, and equality actively driving initiatives like DEI initiatives.

We are seeking an experienced, diplomatic, and highly structured Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager to serve as the central liaison between our institution and key external stakeholders, including regulators (e.g., BaFin, Deutsche Bundesbank, Einlagensicherung) and external auditors.

You will report directly to the Chief of Staff and in this highly visible role, you will orchestrate all formal regulatory correspondence and audit communications. Your primary mandate is to ensure that all inquiries, reports, and ad-hoc requests are answered precisely, on time, and - crucially - in strict alignment with the company’s overarching strategy, risk appetite, and management requirements. You will act as the gatekeeper for external communication, ensuring a consistent, compliant, and strategic narrative.

Your Task:

• 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.

We'd love to see

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.

Benefits

• Home office budget.
• Learning & development budget of €1000 per year and a transparent growth framework to support your career goals.
• Competitive salary and a variable remuneration program.
• Monthly meal allowance.
• Deutschland ticket subsidy.
• 28 vacation days, increasing by 2 days after 2 years and 3 days after 3 years with Solaris.
• Opportunity to work abroad for up to 12 weeks per year.

While job ads usually paint an ideal picture of a candidate, studies show that most applicants meet an average of 60% of the criteria. Unfortunately, many promising candidates tend to apply only if they meet all the criteria. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single item in the job description, please contact us anyway. We'd love to talk with you and find out if you might be a good fit for us.

At Solaris, we are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment, where all Solarians feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a diverse workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of color, ethnicity, religion, sex, origin, disability, marital status, citizenship, or gender identity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

If your application is successful, you will be required to complete pre-employment background checks through our screening provider Zinc. These include, but not limited to identity verification, educational records, references, a criminal record check, etc. The processing is based on Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. Please see below Privacy Information for Job Applicants for details, including recipients, retention, and your rights.

Information on data processing:

DE: https://www.solarisgroup.com/gdpr_notice_de

EN: https://www.solarisgroup.com/gdpr_notice_en

The annual gross salary range for this position is:

€75.000 — €100.000 EUR