Hello, I'm Valeriia Nikitenko, and I specialize in ensuring that online payment setups elevate business growth. Throughout my career, I've navigated complex regulatory environments, crafted legal frameworks for financial institutions, and led compliance teams to ensure seamless payment operations. My expertise lies in communication, cross-functional collaboration, and leveraging data-driven strategies to transform challenges into opportunities. I am passionate about applying my leadership skills to build teams, calibrate internal organizational processes, and discover the strategy of a particular project, team, or organization. If topics like online payments landscape, team management, or modern leadership drive you, let's connect!
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Lead Legal Counsel - RegulatoryMangopay Mar 2024 - Present -
Head Of Compliance And Payment SolutionsBoosta Oct 2021 - Feb 2024- Managing Compliance & Payment Solutions department of three teams: compliance, billing support, and risk management- Implementing payment solutions designed for particular business needs- Daily consulting of project teams: monitoring metrics (effective processing cost, passability, fraud %, chargebacks), performing different case analyses- Dealing with complex payment-related issues from various fields- Establishing a relationship with partners - Overseeing and assisting the Compliance team with building Information Security processes, creation of internal policies -
International LawyerCovered Under Nda Jan 2021 - Sep 2021- Draft and review of internal polices and contracts with merchants and TPSP;- Legal support with Data protection and AML/CTF legislation compliance;- Assistance with opening safeguarding and operational accounts;- Corporate and tax structuring of business and company's deals;- Participation in developing legal guidelines, policies, and internal corporate standards.
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Head Of ComplianceSolid - Fintech Company Jan 2020 - Nov 2020- Managing the application for the Payment Institution license in the EU Member State;- Building client onboarding, KYC and AML processes;- Payment Schemes compliance (both from Merchant's and Acquirer's prospective); - Legal support of the provision of payment gateway services with a focus on the EU, USA, CIS and some African countries;- Corporate governance and specific tax issues;- Building legal department from scratch. -
Compliance OfficerGenesis Tech Feb 2018 - Dec 2019Kyiv, Kyiv City, UkraineWorking for the Internal payment gateway:- Ensure all aspects of Customer Due Diligence and customer monitoring- Monitor customer business relationships- Review procedures- Analyse and investigate merchant business cases- Ensuring merchants compliance with Visa / MC rules- Execute ad-hoc tasks related to compliance matter -
PresidentEuropean Youth Parliament - Ukraine Nov 2017 - Nov 2018• Supervision of all the activities of the organisation;• Control and ensure the implementation of the organisations’ development strategy;• Supervision of the annual events’ plan creation and approval;• Representation of the organisation on National and International levels;• Interaction with international bodies of EYP;• Approval and advice on new initiatives of members;• Establishment and maintenance partner relations with NGOs, private companies, governmental institutions, international organizations, etc.;• Consulting the organisation development;• Managing the Board of organisation and organising regular meetings of the Board Members;• Regular reports on ongoing projects progress;• Dealing with all the official correspondence;• Submitting reports to tax administration and dealing with all the legal aspects of the organisation’s activities;• Coordination of the financial distribution of resources and control of the inner reporting after the sessions/events.
Valeriia Nikitenko Education Details
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Other; Stanford Lead Professional Certificate -
European And International Business Law
Frequently Asked Questions about Valeriia Nikitenko
What company does Valeriia Nikitenko work for?
Valeriia Nikitenko works for Mangopay
What is Valeriia Nikitenko's role at the current company?
Valeriia Nikitenko's current role is Lead Legal Counsel - Regulatory at Mangopay.
What schools did Valeriia Nikitenko attend?
Valeriia Nikitenko attended Stanford University Graduate School Of Business, Mykolas Romeris University, Национальный Юридический Университет Имени Ярослава Мудрого.
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