Compliance Officer - Institutional Solutions

Ebury is a leading global fintech company that empowers businesses to trade and grow internationally. It offers a comprehensive suite of products, including international payments and collections, FX risk management, trade finance, and API integrations. Founded in by Juan Lobato and Salvador García, Ebury is one of the fastest-growing global fintechs, with over 1, employees and 38 offices in more than 25 countries.

Compliance Officer & MLRO – Luxembourg

Ebury Partners Belgium, Luxembourg Branch

What we are looking for :

We are looking for a self-driven Compliance Officer & MLRO who has gained at least three years experience within the financial industry 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.

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 Luxembourg;
• 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, conduct 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 is 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;

Reporting to :

Ebury Partners Belgium AMLCO (based in Brussels)

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