Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager

Solaris is Europe's leading embedded finance platform. Solaris’ full German banking license and proprietary modular B2B tech stack empowers its partners – from SMEs to large, multinational, non-financial companies – to offer compliant, customer-centric banking services, providing seamless experiences to customers across all industries. Founded in 2016, Solaris pioneered the Banking-as-a-Service market with an unparalleled combination of tech and banking. Solaris is headquartered in Berlin and employs 300 people in Europe.

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)