Senior Compliance Officer (Regulatory focus)

Job Description

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of regulatory compliance experience, including 3+ years in regulated payments, e-money, cryptoasset, or a closely comparable fintech environment
• Hands-on knowledge of at least one relevant authorisation framework: UK EMI/payment services, UK MLR cryptoasset registration, EEA EMI/PI, MiCA/CASP, or Jersey VASP
• Proven ability to independently author substantive regulatory documents — policies, frameworks, risk assessments, application materials — this is your core deliverable
• Ability to navigate primary legislation and regulatory guidance independently
• Working knowledge of AMLD/FATF standards, sanctions, outsourcing, and governance requirements
• Practical understanding of how transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, and case-management controls are designed and evidenced — experience with tools such as Sumsub, ComplyAdvantage, Scorechain, Fireblocks, or equivalent
• Strong analytical thinking: gap analysis, requirement mapping, evidence management
• Sound judgement: able to distinguish mandatory requirements, risk appetite, and matters requiring legal advice
• High autonomy — identifies missing facts, proposes a route, and closes actions without micromanagement
• Comfortable with speed, ambiguity, and parallel workstreams under a high evidentiary standard
• Fluent professional English, including excellent written drafting
• Ability to work within European business hours (minimum four-hour overlap) and travel occasionally to Riga if required

RESPONSIBILITES

• Support the delivery of our client’s AML/CFT, sanctions, and regulatory compliance obligations across the group and its regulated entities
• Draft, review, and maintain internal policies, procedures, methodologies, risk assessments, control descriptions, and governance documents
• Contribute to licence applications and regulatory projects: programmes of operations, business plans, AML/CFT frameworks, safeguarding descriptions, and other application materials
• Prepare and coordinate responses to regulatory RFIs and comments from external counsel, consultants, and supervisory authorities
• Provide compliance advice on new products, partners, jurisdictions, outsourcing arrangements, and changes to business models
• Review and advise on complex AML, sanctions, CDD/KYB, and transaction-monitoring escalations
• Monitor regulatory developments, assess their impact on our client, and translate new requirements into practical changes to policies, processes, and controls
• Conduct compliance gap analyses, thematic reviews, and risk assessments, and coordinate remediation
• Support regulatory reporting, notifications, audits, and inspections
• Track the implementation of regulatory commitments and verify that approved policies and controls operate in practice
• Provide compliance guidance and training to the business where required

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