Head of Compliance and Financial Crime

Skills

About the Role

You will lead the second line of defence, providing independent oversight and expert guidance on compliance and financial crime matters. You will act as the primary regulatory liaison for Irish approvals, implement and maintain AML/CTF controls, coordinate compliance frameworks across jurisdictions, support regulatory engagements, 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 strategic and hands-on experience
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Pragmatic commercially aware problem-solver with a builder mindset

Responsibilities

• Serve as the approved PCF-12 and PCF-52
• Maintain overall responsibility for 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 AML/CTF controls including business and customer risk assessments, CDD/EDD, ongoing monitoring, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, and sanctions compliance
• Design and enhance a Group-wide compliance and financial crime framework
• Promote consistent standards, governance principles, 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 Group leadership and Boards
• Act as an escalation point for first line teams across jurisdictions
• Support regulatory engagements and examinations and coordinate responses and remediation
• Partner with Product, Operations, Engineering, and Legal to embed regulatory requirements into products and processes
• Assess regulatory implications for market expansion and build scalable control frameworks
• Monitor and assess global regulatory developments and implement new requirements
• Lead compliance and financial crime training programmes across jurisdictions
• Maintain relationships with regulators, law enforcement, auditors, and external advisors
• Mentor and develop members of the Compliance and Financial Crime teams

Benefits

• Equity
• Work-life balance
• Regular team events and off-sites
• Medical coverage
• Pension
• Generous paid parental leave
• Generous vacation and sick leave
• Work from anywhere
• Paid co-working space or desk