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HoneyCoin

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

🤝 B2B

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $4.9M Seed Round - HoneyCoin on 2025-08

Fintech • Crypto • B2B

HoneyCoin is a fintech platform that provides infrastructure for international and African-focused payments, wallets, virtual accounts, OTC trading, and stablecoin on/off-ramps. The company offers multi-currency fiat and crypto wallets, virtual cards, bulk payouts, developer APIs and SDKs, fraud monitoring, and same-day settlements—targeting finance and product teams that need to run cross-border payments, payroll, lending, and treasury operations. HoneyCoin supports stablecoins (USDC/USDT) across many African markets (18–21 countries), provides licensed local rails, and positions itself as a regulated, developer-first B2B payments and treasury solution; it also recently closed a $4. 9M funding round.

📋 Description

• The Compliance Officer is responsible for supporting the design, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the firm's compliance framework in line with the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). • Monitor compliance with MiCA, related delegated acts, regulatory technical standards, implementing measures, supervisory guidance, and local laws applicable to the firm. • Support the drafting, review, implementation, and periodic update of compliance policies, procedures, control standards, and regulatory registers. • Maintain regulatory obligations inventories, compliance monitoring plans, and evidence repositories. • Track regulatory developments and assess business impact across products, client onboarding, operations, outsourcing, technology, disclosures, and complaints handling. • Help ensure clear allocation of responsibilities across business, risk, compliance, and oversight functions. • Prepare compliance input into management reports, board packs, committee papers, and periodic control attestations. • Review new products, new jurisdictions, outsourcing arrangements, and material operational changes from a MiCA compliance perspective. • Maintain evidence required for inspections, audits, licence applications, passporting, or supervisory reviews. • Maintain and monitor the conflicts of interest framework, including identification, prevention, management, documentation, and disclosure where required. • Review customer terms, marketing materials, website content, onboarding journeys, complaints procedures, and product communications for regulatory accuracy and fairness. • Work closely with the MLRO and financial crime teams to align MiCA compliance arrangements with AML/CFT, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and escalation requirements. • Execute the compliance monitoring plan through thematic reviews, control testing, file sampling, issue tracking, and evidence collection. • Deliver or coordinate compliance training on MiCA obligations, conduct risk, conflicts management, regulatory disclosures, sanctions awareness, whistleblowing, and escalation requirements. • Participate in product approval and change governance forums.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Law, Finance, Compliance, Business, Risk Management, or a related field. • Relevant professional certification preferred, such as ICA, ACAMS, or equivalent compliance qualification. • 3-7 years of experience in compliance, legal, risk, or regulatory advisory roles within crypto, fintech, payments, e-money, investment services, or financial institutions. • Demonstrable experience supporting regulated businesses with compliance monitoring, policy drafting, advisory work, control testing, or regulatory engagement. • Experience with crypto-asset, digital asset, custody, exchange, brokerage, or blockchain-based business models is strongly preferred. • Experience supporting licence applications, regulatory remediation programmes, or supervisory inspections is highly desirable. • Strong working knowledge of MiCA and obligations relevant to the firm's business model. • Good understanding of AML/CFT, sanctions, consumer protection, outsourcing, complaints handling, governance, and operational risk. • Ability to interpret legal and regulatory texts and translate them into practical controls, workflows, and evidence requirements. • Familiarity with compliance management systems, issue trackers, control matrices, and policy governance processes. • Strong analytical and regulatory interpretation skills. • Excellent drafting, review, and policy-writing ability. • Sound judgment, integrity, and professional scepticism. • Ability to challenge constructively and escalate appropriately. • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. • Highly organised, detail-oriented, and evidence-focused. • Comfort working in a fast-moving technology-driven environment.