Compliance Officer & MLRO

Compliance Officer & MLRO – Ebury Partners Belgium, Portuguese Branch

Lisbon - Hybrid: 4 days a week office based working, 1 day working from home

The Compliance Officer & MLRO for Portugal reports directly to the Ebury Partners Belgium AMLCO based in Brussels.

The main purpose of this role is to assist in maintaining the integrity and compliance of the country branch, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, reporting obligations and maintaining an open, transparent and effective relationship with our regulators within the country.

In addition, this role will assist with the implementation of policies and procedures and keeping them up to date when needed, as well as supporting our training and development program.

• We are looking for a self-driven Compliance Officer & MLRO who has gained at least three years experience within the financial industry in the country.
• Solid knowledge in regulatory and AML compliance, and someone who has the ability to take ownership of a Compliance framework in a fast paced Fintech environment and keep driving this forward.
• The person must demonstrate proven organisational and time management skills, have excellent communications skills (both written and verbal), with the ability to gain credibility fast and influence key stakeholders. The working environment is fast paced, agile and highly results orientated so the individual must be comfortable working within this type of highly rewarding, dynamic environment.
• In addition, the individual must be comfortable with working autonomously, have relevant Compliance/Legal qualifications and a good level of commercial awareness. It will be pivotal to have good interpersonal skills to be the first point of contact with the local regulatory bodies as well.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English is essential.

Key Responsibilities are, but not limited to

• Reviewing policies and procedures. Conduct research on local requirements, gap analysis, and review translation. Scanning of new EU and local regulations and changes from regulators.
• Implementing local requirements in the firm systems and controls and follow up with the other departments.
• Drafting and preparing the regulatory periodic deliverables and drafting regulatory communications.
• Performing controls & monitoring of the 1LoD, when not already performed by another team.
• Liaising with the other departments and gathering all information and data necessary for the reports to Senior Management.
• Liaise with local regulators/FIUs in Portugal.
• Review along the AMLCO the SARs and support drafting of external SARs, where appropriate to the FIUs.
• Gathering information and liaising with all necessary departments where necessary (Audits, Regulators queries, etc).
• Translating local reporting requirements into operational guidelines, conducting research and help in the interpretation of the specifications.
• Conducting research for ad hoc regulatory queries from other departments or Senior Management.
• Assist the AMLCO on escalations relating to EDD, transactions, PEPs, exceptions, sanction review, dispensations and risk downgrades performing the first assessment.
• Liaise with the front office with any questions about the policies and procedures.
• Participating actively in workgroups, fora, and other meetings where compliance participation and inputs are required.
• Investigating potential breaches of policies and procedures.
• Keep up to date with relevant AML and Financial Crime regulations and changes.
• Help improve the operational compliance processes based on the local policies (liaise with the managers and local ops teams).
• Investigating complaints and preparing draft responses.

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