About the role
Lead and strengthen the Group’s Compliance function, ensuring that our growth remains fully aligned with regulatory requirements, industry best practices, and the highest standards of integrity.
As Head of Compliance, you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior management and business leaders, helping the organization navigate complex regulatory environments while enabling sustainable growth. You will build a compliance culture that protects the business, supports innovation, and creates confidence among regulators, clients, and partners.
Key Responsibilities
Compliance Strategy & Governance
- Develop, implement, and continuously enhance the Group’s compliance framework, policies, and controls.
- Ensure ongoing compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, including CySEC, Central Bank of Cyprus regulations, AML/KYC obligations, FATCA, CRS, PSD2, and other relevant European regulatory frameworks.
- Establish governance structures, reporting mechanisms, and compliance monitoring programs across the organization.
Regulatory Oversight
- Oversee compliance activities across the Group’s business lines, including investments, wealth management, payments, fiduciary services, and digital assets.
- Monitor regulatory developments and assess their impact on business operations, products, and processes.
- Provide practical and commercially sound guidance to support business growth within regulatory boundaries.
Regulatory Relations & Audits
- Act as the primary point of contact for regulators, supervisory authorities, and external auditors.
- Lead regulatory inspections, audits, reviews, and reporting processes.
- Ensure timely remediation of findings and maintain strong relationships with relevant authorities.
AML, Financial Crime & Risk Management
- Oversee AML/CFT programs, client due diligence processes, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and ongoing client reviews.
- Ensure effective identification, assessment, and mitigation of compliance and financial crime risks.
- Promote a proactive and risk-based approach to compliance management.
Compliance Culture & Training
- Foster a culture of integrity, accountability, and regulatory awareness across the Group.
- Develop and deliver compliance training programs for employees and management.
- Provide ongoing guidance and support to business teams on regulatory matters and ethical decision-making.
Compliance Innovation & AI
- Drive the adoption of technology, automation, and AI within compliance operations.
- Implement solutions to enhance transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, due diligence, regulatory reporting, and risk assessment processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency while maintaining robust compliance standards.
Requirements
Must-Have
- Proven experience leading Compliance functions within a regulated financial institution, investment firm, payment institution, banking, wealth management, or digital asset business.
- Strong knowledge of CySEC and European regulatory frameworks, including AML/KYC, FATCA, CRS, PSD2, and requirements applicable to CIFs, Payment Institutions, and Asset Service Providers.
- Demonstrated experience interacting with regulators, auditors, and supervisory authorities.
- Excellent understanding of compliance risk management, governance, and financial crime prevention.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Impeccable professional reputation, integrity, and sound judgment.
- Ability to provide practical solutions and enable business growth while maintaining regulatory compliance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant professional certifications such as CySEC Advanced, ACAMS, ICA, or equivalent.
- Experience overseeing compliance within multiple regulated business lines.
- Experience implementing RegTech, compliance automation, AI-driven monitoring, or risk management solutions.
- Successful track record managing regulatory inspections and audits with minimal or no material findings.
What Success Looks Like
- The Group maintains a strong compliance posture while scaling across multiple jurisdictions and business lines.
- Regulatory inspections and audits are completed successfully with limited findings and effective remediation.
- Compliance is viewed as a strategic business partner rather than a control function alone.
- Financial crime risks are proactively managed through robust controls and modern technology.
- AI and automation significantly improve the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of compliance operations.
- A strong culture of integrity, accountability, and regulatory excellence is embedded throughout the organization.
