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Compliance Officer & DMLRO
Compliance
Ebury Singapore Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home per week
The main purpose of this role is to assist in maintaining the integrity and compliance of the country branch, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, reporting obligations and maintaining an open, transparent and effective relationship with our regulators within the country.
What you’ll do
- Hold the role of the Money Laundering Reporting Officer for the country branch.
- Drafting and updating local policies and procedures, while ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements.
- Assist with reporting obligations and ensure compliance with statutory deadlines (including but not limited to AML Reports, Payments Reports, etc.).
- Handle connection to authorities regulatory portals.
- Liaise with regulatory bodies, ensuring effective and smooth communication.
- Develop and maintain relevant parts of the compliance framework (AML/CFT and Regulatory Policies).
- Liaise closely with the Group Compliance (London) to ensure that compliance policies and procedures are consistent with company policy.
- Help improving the operational compliance processes based on the local policies (liaise with the MLROs and local ops teams).
- Provide ongoing training about the products and ensure the sales team is continuously monitored for the regulated activities.
- Keep abreast of ordinances/circulars/recommendations from the Regulator and continuously ensure that the Entity’s policies and procedures adhere to these.
- Audit the first line of defence procedures and processes.
- Assist with external AML audits.
- Provide advice on High Risk clients/escalations and SARs.
- Assist with ad-hoc queries from the business teams.
- Attend regulatory forums and industry meetings to keep up to date with industry standards.
- Desirable to have experience dealing with the country regulators/national bank.
In addition, this role will assist with the implementation of policies and procedures and keeping them up to date when needed, as well as supporting our training and development program.
- We are looking for a self-driven Compliance Officer with at least 4-5 years of relevant experience within the financial industry in the country.
- Solid knowledge in regulatory (PSD2, MIFID2, etc) and AML compliance and the ability to take ownership of parts of a Compliance framework in a fast-paced Fintech environment.
- The person must demonstrate proven organisational and time management skills, have excellent communications skills (both written and verbal), with the ability to gain credibility fast and influence key stakeholders. The working environment is fast paced, agile and highly results orientated so the individual must be comfortable working within this type of highly rewarding, dynamic environment.
- In addition, the individual must be comfortable with working autonomously, have relevant Compliance/Legal qualifications and a good level of commercial awareness. It will be pivotal to have good interpersonal skills to interact with the local regulatory bodies.
- Proficiency in English and local language is required.
- Any professional certifications or a law/economics degree will be considered a plus.
What you’ll need
- Previous experience as a Compliance Officer and MLRO (being two different roles). As the candidate will manage all compliance matters of the branch, this aspect is essential.
- Regulatory matters (preferably payment services, e-money), governance, regulatory reporting.
- Financial crime (high risk escalations, SARs, risk assessments, etc).
- Previous experience in a high pace/demanding fintech environment.
- Exposure to derivative products under the Capital Markets Services (CMS) framework is highly advantageous.
- Ability to adapt to digital processes and tools, including Google Suite.
- Main point of contact for compliance matters; Management, Regulatory Authorities, Front Office and other Company departments.
- Law degree. Being able to understand and interpret the law and translate it into operational guidelines for the business is a must.
Why Ebury?
- Competitive Starting Salary with an annual discretionary bonus that truly rewards your performance from day one.
- Dedicated Mentorship: Learn directly from experienced managers who are invested in your success.
- Cutting-Edge Technology: Leverage state-of-the-art tailor made tools and systems that enable you to perform at your best.
- Clear, Accelerated Career Progression: Defined pathways to leadership and specialist roles within Ebury.
- Dynamic & Supportive Culture: Work in a collaborative environment where teamwork and personal growth are prioritized.
- Generous Benefits Package: Access competitive benefits tailored to your location, which typically include health care and social benefits.
- Central Office: A fantastic location with excellent transport links.
Ready to launch your career with a global FinTech? Click the ‘Apply’ Today and discover your potential at Ebury!
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About us
Ebury delivers sophisticated, integrated solutions — business accounts, hedging, and financing — on a single platform with a seamless workflow. Our success is built on a simple premise and singular purpose: To help businesses operate and scale globally.
Since its founding in 2009, Ebury has always been a fast-growing leader in fintech. Today, we bring together 2000+ Eburians across nearly 70 cities and we’re always looking to add to our team.
At the heart of our offering is a proprietary platform, purpose-built to help businesses seamlessly streamline and manage global cash flow. We focus on continuous product evolution and innovation to build the infrastructure for borderless growth and help our clients scale at every stage.
The opportunities at Ebury are as diverse as our people, ranging from business development to engineering roles across our tech pillars.
We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and are against the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story.
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