Head of Compliance and Financial Crime
Skills
About the Role
You will lead the second line of defence, providing independent oversight, challenge, and expert guidance on compliance and financial crime matters. You will maintain and enhance AML/CTF controls, manage regulatory reporting and engagement, embed regulatory requirements into products and processes, oversee monitoring and remediation, lead training, and mentor compliance teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in law finance business or related field
- Professional certifications such as ACAMS or ICA highly desirable
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in senior compliance and/or financial crime roles within regulated financial services
- Demonstrable experience in payments and/or cryptoasset businesses across multiple jurisdictions
- Experience interacting directly with regulators and Boards
- Strong knowledge of Irish EU UK and US regulatory frameworks applicable to payments and cryptoasset service providers
- Experience performing a PCF or equivalent senior regulatory control function highly desirable
- Strong leadership capability with ability to operate strategically and hands-on
- Excellent analytical communication and stakeholder management skills
- Pragmatic commercially aware problem-solver with a builder mindset
Responsibilities
- Serve as the approved PCF-12 (Head of Compliance) and PCF-52 (Head of AML/CTF)
- Maintain overall responsibility for the firm’s compliance and AML/CTF frameworks
- Ensure compliance with applicable Irish and EU regulatory obligations
- Provide formal Compliance and Financial Crime reporting to the Irish Board
- Act as primary regulatory liaison with the Central Bank of Ireland
- Implement and maintain AML/CTF controls including business and customer risk assessments
- Design and operate CDD and EDD frameworks
- Operate ongoing monitoring and transaction monitoring and manage suspicious activity reporting
- Ensure sanctions compliance
- Contribute to design and enhancement of a Group-wide compliance and financial crime framework
- Promote consistent standards governance and control frameworks across jurisdictions
- Oversee the Group Compliance Plan including regulatory reporting, monitoring and testing programmes, and remediation tracking
- Provide consolidated management information and thematic reporting to leadership and Boards
- Act as an escalation point for first line teams across jurisdictions
- Support regulatory engagement and examinations and coordinate responses and remediation
- Partner with Product Operations Engineering and Legal to embed regulatory requirements into new products and expansions
- Support global expansion by assessing regulatory implications and building scalable control frameworks
- Monitor and assess global regulatory developments and implement new requirements
- Lead Compliance and Financial Crime training programmes
- Mentor and develop members of Compliance and Financial Crime teams
- Maintain relationships with regulators law enforcement auditors and external advisors