Senior Group Compliance officer (FEC)

Our Client Is an international operating financial services Company. 

This role supports the Group Corporate Compliance function, acting as second line of defence, with its primary focus on the financial crime topic set: anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT), know-your-customer and customer due diligence (KYC/CDD), fraud, and sanctions.

The role also carries a lighter, secondary involvement in ethics and conduct topics — anti-bribery and corruption, gifts and entertainment, and conflicts of interest — where capacity allows and in support of colleagues who own that area. Financial crime remains the core of the role at all times; ethics and conduct work is additive, not a parallel full workload.

The role works in coordination with local compliance officers where applicable, under the Group's allocation of responsibilities, with the Group Corporate Compliance function retaining final decision authority on all in-scope topics.

• Provide independent oversight, challenge and review of Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Know Your Customer (KYC) assessments, advice on Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) for higher-risk customer profiles.
• Conduct quality assurance and risk-based reviews of files escalated by the First Line of Defence, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies and risk appetite.Contribute operational and subject-matter input to the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation implementation project
  Fraud and sanctions:

• Support fraud risk assessments and case handling, in liaison with relevant business and control functions
• Contribute to fraud prevention procedures and awareness materials
• Support sanctions screening and escalation processes where relevant to Group entities Controls, reviews and reporting
• Perform second line controls (permanent and periodic) testing first-line application of financial crime policies
• Conduct thematic reviews on selected topics or entities, such as customer due diligence file quality
• Document findings, track remediation actions, and report results to Group Corporate Compliance management
  

• Monitor, analyse and interpret regulatory developments relating to AML/CFT, Sanctions, Fraud and Anti-Corruption across Level 1 (primary legislation), Level 2 (delegated and implementing acts, regulatory and implementing technical standards) and Level 3 (guidelines, recommendations, Q&As and supervisory expectations) requirements.
• Maintain the regulatory watch log, assess the impact of regulatory changes on the organisation’s compliance framework, and provide independent second-line guidance and challenge to support effective implementation and ongoing compliance
• Provide day-to-day financial crime compliance advisory to business lines
   Ethics & Conduct (as capacity allows):
• Contribute to review and validation of gifts and entertainment declarations against policy thresholds
• Support conflict of interest declaration assessment and escalation
• Provide occasional back-up on anti-bribery and corruption advisory requests and insider list or restricted employee monitoring
  

• Provide independent review and challenge of CDD/KYC files, including EDD for high-risk customer relationships, to ensure compliance with Group standards, regulatory requirements and the organization’s risk appetite. Fraud case documentation and contribution to fraud prevention materials
• Financial crime control plans, thematic review reports, and remediation tracking
• Regulatory watch entries and impact assessments for the financial crime topic set
• Input to the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation implementation project
• Ad hoc contributions to ethics and conduct registers and declarations, as a secondary output
• Periodic reporting to Group Corporate Compliance management