Country AML & Compliance Officer

About the role

As a member of Zepz Compliance team you will aim high, embrace challenges and always do what’s right; acting with integrity and building trust as you contribute to the company’s technical direction and long term decision making.

Your key areas of regulatory focus will be: 

• Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorist Financing.

• Financial Sanctions (including assets freeze, embargoes and other sanctions) including policy framework and reporting to the Treasury.

• Funds transfers regulation (EU 2015/847) compliance.

• Anti-bribery and corruption (‘ABC’).

• Consumer protection and conduct of business requirements (including marketing).

Reporting to the Belgium Management Team and also to the Director, Regional Compliance - Europe, the scope of your role will include:

• Acting as the chief interface between the company and regulatory bodies.

• Maintaining the Belgian entities’ licences to operate.

• Ensuring compliance with country/jurisdictional laws, regulations and company policy and procedures.

• Contributing to the company’s global Compliance policies and, in turn, drafting and owning policy addenda that are owned by Belgium Compliance including Integrity, anti-corruption and bribery, conflicts of interests and code of conduct.

• Being responsible for ‘horizon scanning’ for any and all new / amended regulations that may affect Zepz’s operations across EEA, including assessment of whether our existing controls need to change in response.

• Implementing and managing the AML and CTF programmes, record management, exams and audits, and overseeing reporting for suspicious activity.

• Managing and developing the Belgium Compliance Analyst team.

• Producing and presenting quarterly compliance and AML board pack reports and other AML and Compliance reporting including annual AMLCO reports

• Representing Belgium Compliance at group-wide governance fora.

• Maintaining the Regulatory Reporting Calendar.

• Maintaining the Compliance and AML local risk register.

• Managing the compliance, AML, and CTF due diligence of new partners.

• Helping to drive in local partnership opportunities, if any, from a compliance perspective.

• Safeguarding reporting and second line oversight.

• Creating and managing budgets for the local team.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Established Compliance Officer, who has previously overseen an anti-money-laundering and sanctions framework and been responsible for external reporting to the relevant authorities.

• Previous experience of working in the Payments sector is preferred, although candidates with broader Financial Services backgrounds will also be considered. 

• Highly knowledgeable about the Belgium and EEA AML Laws including 5th/ 6th AMLD, compliance regulation including PSD2/ PSD3/ PSR,  regulatory guidance and circulars and remain abreast of all the trends in compliance regulation. 

• Significant experience in CDD, EDD, partner/third party due diligence, and suspicious activity detection/investigation, and reporting. 

• Understands compliance frameworks for risk management and internal controls. 

• Knows how to implement best AML/CTF practices and resolve outstanding issues. Able to communicate best practice with the broader global compliance team.

• Is engaged in the day-to-day details of the role, whilst never losing strategic oversight of the control framework.

• Has sufficient gravitas to interact at C-suite level. 

• Is a strong people manager; a ‘multiplier’ of the talent in their team and naturally attracting and retaining high performing team members, setting a tone of positivity, accountability, and competence within the team.

• Not only develops sound and effective day-to-day controls but continually monitors and oversees operations to assure alignment with the business. Realises that cultivating our people is one of our best strategic choices. Can manage the tasks of the day while scanning the horizon for future threats/changes. 

• Fluent in French and English and resident in Belgium..