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Compliance Manager

🇲🇹 Malta

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Compliance Manager

from 🇲🇹 Malta

Our client, a well-established CSP based in Malta, is looking for aCompliance Manager to join their growing team. In this role, you will oversee the company's compliance framework, manage AML/CFT processes, and lead the compliance team.

This is ahybridrole offering a salary of up to €45K.

Please note that only candidates already based in Malta can be considered.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Oversee the company's compliance framework, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and that policies, procedures, and controls are consistently applied across the business

  • Manage end-to-end KYC/KYB and CDD processes, ensuring onboarding files meet FIAU standards, including Beneficial Ownership identification and verification

  • Oversee the client risk rating methodology and manage the periodic CDD refresh programme in line with risk classification

  • Review EDD files, PEP, sanctions, and adverse media screening outcomes

  • Manage transaction and activity monitoring processes, ensuring red flags are identified and escalated promptly

  • Lead, supervise, and mentor the compliance team, allocating workloads effectively and conducting performance reviews

  • Act as the primary escalation point for technical compliance queries within the team

  • Review complex or high-risk client onboarding cases, including those involving complex corporate structures, trusts, or high-risk jurisdictions

  • Coordinate with client-facing and corporate services teams to resolve compliance-related onboarding queries

  • Design and deliver AML/CFT training programmes for all staff, maintaining training records and ensuring mandatory training is completed on time

  • Oversee the use of compliance technology, including screening tools, CDD platforms, and case management systems, identifying opportunities for process improvements

  • Ensure compliance data and client records are maintained in line with GDPR

Education, Skills & Experience

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in a local CSP firm, with at least 1 year in a managerial role

  • Proven experience in managing a team

  • Obtaining MFSA PQ status is a requirement, including holding the role of Risk Management Officer and completion of the mandatory training

  • Fluency in English both written and spoken

  • Strong understanding of the Company Service Providers Act (Cap. 529), MFSA CSP Rulebook, and FIAU Implementing Procedures

  • Knowledgeable of AML/CFT obligations, CDD/EDD requirements, and beneficial ownership frameworks

  • Familiarity with EU regulatory developments including AMLD6

  • Experience with Inscope is a plus

  • Analytical, organised with report-writing skills

  • Multi-tasker with the ability to respect deadlines

About the Role

  • Salary of up to €45K

  • Hybrid – 3 days in the office, 2 days from home (after probation)

  • Opportunities for career growth and professional development

Kindly apply with your detailed CV in English.

*JobMatchingPartner Limited is a recruitment agency licenced in Malta, EU with licence no EA00340-2024. We act on behalf of clients based in Malta and elsewhere. JobMatchingPartner does not share your personal details with any third party without your written consent.

by @maxrusakovic