About this role
i tsme® has fundamentally changed how people lead their digital lives in Belgium , but we are not stopping there! Do you want to be a driving force to help expand on this success story as part of a talented team that is making a positive impact on society? Then keep on reading, you’ll probably like what you’ll see. We are itsme®, one of Europe’s fastest-growing scale-ups , with 150 team members and growing. Our mission: to provide a state-of-the-art digital identity solution for all people, enabling them to interact securely in the digital space. Now, only nine years after being founded, close to 8 million citizens use the itsme® app to identify themselves and sign documents online. Starting in Belgium, we successfully launched the itsme app in 32 European countries, with the ambition of becoming an internationally leading player . We are looking for a Compliance Specialist whose mission will be to validate itsme® compliance to the different frameworks that we have to abide to, such as eIDAS – the regulation on Electronic Identity and Signatures – but also GDPR, NIS2, CRA, AI and the frameworks our customers are looking at such as PSD3, PSR and DORA. The primary objective of the role is to provide assurance that itsme's products, services and operations remain demonstrably compliant with applicable regulatory and contractual requirements. You help the organisation translate requirements into controls, validate their effectiveness and ensure that compliance can be evidenced towards regulators, auditors, customers and partners. What your job looks like · Take a pivotal role in the Compliance, Risk and Audit department, working alongside experts in the field of Information Security, Privacy and Compliance; · Analyse the impact of new legislation and standards on products, processes and operational controls; · Ensure traceability between (new) requirements, controls and supporting evidence; · Assist product and operational teams with implementations of new features to bring them in line with the applicable Belgian and European frameworks; · Produce assurance reports for management and governance bodies; · Prepare, lead and assist in regular audits, both internal and external, to provide transparency about our continued compliance, and produce the evidences that underpin our commitments to the market;