Senior Compliance Officer (Regulatory Focus)
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OnHiresFintech, Crypto, Payments
Europe: Serbia, Poland, Georgia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Limassol, Slovenia, Minimum 4-hour overlap with European business hoursFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Languages
- Fluent professional English
- Experience
- 5+ years of regulatory compliance experience, including 3+ years in regulated payments, e-money, cryptoassets or a closely comparable fintech environment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of regulatory compliance experience, including 3+ years in regulated payments, e-money, cryptoassets, or fintech.
- Hands-on experience drafting regulatory application materials, policies, or AML/CFT frameworks.
- Deep knowledge of at least one authorisation framework (UK EMI/payment services, UK MLR cryptoasset registration, EEA EMI/PI, MiCA/CASP, or Jersey VASP).
- Understanding of the differences between EMI/PI, CASP/VASP, and AML registration perimeters.
- Ability to navigate primary legislation and regulatory guidance independently.
- Working knowledge of AMLD/FATF standards, sanctions, outsourcing, and governance requirements.
- Understanding of transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, and case management controls.
- Experience with compliance tools such as Sumsub, ComplyAdvantage, Scorechain, or Fireblocks.
- Understanding of investigation, escalation, and SAR/STR reporting governance.
- Fluent professional English with excellent written drafting skills.
- Ability to work independently during European business hours.
- Availability for occasional travel to the company's EU office.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to licence applications and regulatory projects, including programmes of operations, business plans, and AML/CFT frameworks.
- Build regulatory requirement matrices and application document maps while managing evidence collection.
- Prepare and coordinate responses to RFIs from regulators, external counsel, and consultants.
- Draft, review, and maintain policies, procedures, methodologies, and risk assessments.
- Track the implementation of regulatory commitments and verify that controls operate in practice.
- Advise on new products, jurisdictions, and business model changes.
- Review and advise on complex AML, sanctions, CDD/KYB, and transaction monitoring escalations.
- Monitor regulatory developments and translate impacts into updated policies and controls.
- Run gap analyses, thematic reviews, and risk assessments to coordinate remediation.
- Provide compliance guidance and training to the broader business.
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