Compliance Officer

About the role

Banco Plata is looking for an AML/CFT professional to strengthen the first line of defense of its SME business. This role works close to the operation, guides analysts day to day, and takes ownership of quality across the AML/CFT operation.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the SME AML/CFT operations teams, including agents and supervisors, focusing on the quality of processes, decisions, and documentation.
• Oversee the quality of transactional monitoring alert analysis and client onboarding decisions, ensuring cases are analyzed, escalated when needed, and documented.
• Serve as the point of contact between the first and second lines of defense, resolving criteria questions from the operation.
• Set, communicate, and enforce analysis criteria, and ensure teams understand typologies and the regulation behind them.
• Identify quality gaps and recurring errors, and drive corrective actions and training.
• Prepare periodic reports for senior management on operational performance and health, including volumes, backlog, quality indicators, and risk trends.
• Coordinate with AML/CFT policy and program owners to align written policies with operational practice, and flag where policies may need to change.
• Support preparation of information for internal and external reviews, audits, and authority requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Law, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 5+ years of proven experience running AML/CFT operations.

Datos clave

• The role supervises SME AML/CFT operations teams, including agents and supervisors.
• A bachelor's degree in Law, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field is required.
• Requires 5+ years of proven experience running AML/CFT operations.