Compliance Officer

Ebury is a leading global fintech company that empowers businesses to trade and grow internationally. It offers a comprehensive suite of products, including international payments and collections, FX risk management, trade finance, and API integrations. Founded in 2009 by Juan Lobato and Salvador García, Ebury is one of the fastest-growing global fintechs, with over 1,700 employees and 38 offices in more than 25 countries. **Compliance Officer & MLRO - Mexico** **Ebury Mexico - Hybrid: 4 days a week office based working, 1 day working from home** The Mexican Compliance Officer & MLRO, reports directly to the Chief Compliance Officer & GMLRO. The main purpose of the role is to maintain the integrity of the Mexican branch, ensuring adherence to legislative requirements and providing support to the wider group. In addition this role requires oversight of regulatory obligations, requirements and implementing findings into policies and procedures. In their role, the Compliance Officer & MLRO is trusted with responsibilities which include: - Review of SAR escalations from the Financial Crime Compliance Investigation Team and where appropriate file them with the FIU; - Review and approve escalations from the front office/first line of defence in regards to: - Waivers; - PEP Role Discounting; - PEP Declassification; - Exceptions from policy; - Major negative media; - EDD Approvals; - Blacklist hits; - Military/Dual Use Goods queries; - Proliferation financing querie - Sanctions/Civil Penalty hit (in consultation with FCC Sanctions); - Sanctioned Country Connection (in consultation with FCC Sanctions); - Liaise with the front office with any questions about policies and procedures; - Assist to relevant Forums, Working Groups and Committees where Compliance/MLRO advice is needed; - Keep up to date with relevant AML and Financial Crime regulations and changes; - Policy drafting and reviewing, ensuring that the local policies and procedures are consistent with the group, but also ensuring that they are compliant with the applicable local regulations and laws; - Conducting research for ad hoc regulatory queries from other departments or Senior Management; - Be the direct contact person with the Regulator (Comision Nacional Bancaria y de Valores) and assure a good relationship and cooperation; - Drafting and preparing the regulatory periodic deliverables and drafting regulatory communications; - Coordinate as key point of contact for AML Audits (internal & external) and ensure that the information provided is accurate and up-to-date; - Perform remediation works of findings by both internal and external audit, as well as recommendations set by the Regulator; - Provide inputs to periodic financial crime management information; - Identify local financial crime/regulatory training needs and provide training about product financial crime, regulatory obligations etc. to the front office and sales teams; - Ensure monitoring of the first line of defence from a second line of defence perspective to identify any issues and concerns; - Assist the Regulatory Operations team in the implementation of AML Reporting by translating local legal requirements into operational guidelines. Liaise with regulators and other regulatory bodies to this end as appropriate; - Identification and completion of local regulatory reporting requirements; - Assist the business units and Senior Management with ad-hoc queries where appropriate (i.e. in scope and not already covered by a dedicated team e.g. KYC Advisory); - Responsible for the complaints handling for the branch with the responsibility to communicate with the client, investigate the complaint and take decisions on the redress of the complaint (up to and including whether the complaint will be upheld or not); - Manage relationships which are considered as having conflicts of interest and ensuring that the management rules set in place are followed by all parties. Conflicts of interest are dealt with at a group level, however, the Compliance Officer & MLRO is required to be aware and ensure that it takes actions agreed during the all stages; - Assist in the investigations on breaches that involve the branch and assist in the investigation process with the group level compliance; - Coordinate with the wider regulatory compliance team regarding applicable changes and implementation of new procedures and controls; As the position of Compliance Officer & MLRO is described as "independent" the responsible person in the role is expected to take decisions which may directly affect the branch and the overall business; The role of a Compliance Officer & MLRO is required to be senior enough to have the ability to take decisions on the ground to protect Ebury, its clients and its various counterparties. In their role, the Compliance Officer & MLRO participates in various working groups, committees and other import functions including: - The Financial Crime Working Group (monthly); - Integral member