A boutique law firm based in Limassol, seeks to recreuit a compliance officer.

We are seeking a candidate with at least 2 years similar working experience.

Job Descritpion

• Develops, initiates, maintains and revises policies and procedures for the general operation of the Compliance Program and its related activities to prevent illegal, unethical or impropoer conduct. Manages day-to-day operation of the Program.
• Registration & compliance onboarding of new clients - including background check & filing of necessary regulatory forms.
• Investigate and assess alerts for potential money laundering risks in the company.
• Ensure efficient identification and monitoring of suspicious activities and transactions.
• Daily assessment of AML and SWIFT reports for potential suspicious activity.
• Maintain a current understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing issues, including policies, procedures, regulations, industry best practice, criminal typologies and developing trends.
• Acts as an independent review and evaluation body to ensure that compliance issues/concerns within the organization are being appropriately evaluated, investigated and resolved.
• Ensure that all operations of the firm are conducted in compliance with applicable regulations.
• Provides reports on a regular basis.
• Advise management on current issues regarding correspondent banking and counterparties.
• Research and respond to investigations and complaints and economic sanction related alerts.

Required Skills & Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree required.
• Strong analytical skills required to organize and analyze multiple, complex data sets as well as strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Strong technical skills.
• Computer literacy essential (MS Office).
• General understanding of market place AML issues and AML suspicious activity transaction monitoring systems, data mining/analytical tools, and KYC automated solutions is helpful.
• Strong ability to quickly grasp and understand business unit specific AML risks, develops comprehensive user requirements, and provides recommendations for appropriate automated solutions to mitigate those risks.
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in similar role.
• Fluent in English & Greek.
• Knowledge of the Russian language will be considered as an advantage.
• Knowledge of DAC6 will be considered as an advantage.

Remuneration & Benefits

• Salary based on skills and experience.
• 13th salary.

All applications to be sent to: nikolas@katsislaw.com