Intern, Payments Compliance

**About PhonePe Group**: PhonePe is India’s leading digital payments company with 50 crore (500 Million) registered users and 3.7 crore (37 Million) merchants covering over 99% of the postal codes across India. On the back of its leadership in digital payments, PhonePe has expanded into financial services (Insurance, Mutual Funds, Stock Broking, and Lending) as well as adjacent tech-enabled businesses such as Pincode for hyperlocal shopping and Indus App Store which is India's first localized App Store. The PhonePe Group is a portfolio of businesses aligned with the company's vision to offer every Indian an equal opportunity to accelerate their progress by unlocking the flow of money and access to services. **Culture** At PhonePe, we take extra care to make sure you give your best at work, Everyday And creating the right environment for you is just one of the things we do. We empower people and trust them to do the right thing. Here, you own your work from start to finish, right from day one. Being enthusiastic about tech is a big part of being at PhonePe. If you like building technology that impacts millions, ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your dreams with purpose and speed, join us **Industrial Trainee - Payments Compliance** **About the Team: -** The PhonePe Financial Services Compliance team plays a critical role in the successful execution of the firm & compliance mission. The Compliance function ensures the development and maintenance of a strong compliance culture by developing and maintaining program infrastructure that identifies, measures and monitors compliance with applicable laws, regulations and rules that govern our business globally. Compliance teams work closely with business, legal, risk, and audit functions to provide expertise on regulatory compliance matters, assess and measure compliance and related risks, and monitor and test the adequacy of the firm & compliance control environment. The Intern, Payments Compliance role is relatively new within the PhonePe Compliance & Regulatory Management team with responsibility for oversight of consistent implementation of policies & practices whilst ensuring country nuances are adopted to consider local laws and regulations. Such practices will include a common approach and framework for risk assessment, monitoring, testing and surveillance activities. The Payments Compliance Industrial Trainee is responsible for the timely and effective management and execution of the Payments Compliance goals. As a member of the PhonePe Payments Compliance team, the individual reports into the Manager, Compliance and will be based in Bangalore, India. The individual should have flair for compliance and regulatory advisory with a strong risk and control mindset, keen awareness and interest in research and analysis and is responsible to assess compliance with regulations and policies through reviews conducted across the various product types and instrument types used or issued within PhonePe and affiliated businesses. **Roles and Responsibilities**: Assist the compliance team in monitoring and analysing changes in Indian payments regulations, guidelines, and circulars issued by the RBI and other relevant bodies. Assist in responding to queries from internal teams regarding compliance requirements. Share regular and timely updates with all relevant stakeholders with regards to the progress on the ongoing regulatory implementations. Collect and Store relevant evidence, received from stakeholders from the various implementations done, for future Audit requirements. Support in formulating and providing compliance certifications on all regulatory implementations carried out on a periodic basis with various stakeholders. Help in documenting and updating internal compliance policies and frameworks in line with regulatory changes. Assist during regulatory inspections and ensure closure of the observations with multiple stakeholders Liaise with internal stakeholders to explain the audit requirements and observations in a timely fashion. Support management to compile, maintain and close-out audit finding responses, implementation of controls as per audit recommendations, etc. and ensure all Non IT audit observations. Maintain accurate records of compliance activities and documentation. Conduct research on specific compliance topics related to payments, including KYC/AML, data localization, transaction monitoring, etc. Role Requirements: Good eye for detailing with respect to each product regulations and controls Basic knowledge or keen interest in the Indian regulatory landscape, particularly concerning financial services and payments (RBI guidelines, NPCI guidelines, PMLA, etc.). Have a good appreciation of the regulations applicable in India and APAC. Highly detail-oriented, motivated, curious individual with good time-management skills, analytical and communication skills Quick and sharp indiv