PARTNER (START UP) – QUALIFIED ACCOUNTANT WITH INSOLVENCY EXPERIENCE & LICENCE REQUIRED

 

£250,000 - £450,000 + Bonus & Benefits

REF:4133D2

 

We have been exclusively appointed by our client, a growing international Foreign Exchange & Payments business with an exciting vision, to find a MLRO. Reporting directly to the CEO you will have oversight for all AML & Financial Crime issues. Detailed responsibilities will include;

  • Liaise with all relevant business and support departments within the the firm
  • Take ownership of the API regulatory process and subsequent supervision
  • Ownership and management of all policies and procedure, with periodic review and updates
  • Approve changes to documentation relating to compliance issues.
  • Act as the first point of contact with the Regulators and Law Enforcement agencies, upon commencement and during an investigation as a result of filing a report to the NCA.
  • Coordinate training to ensure staff are adequately aware of the compliance function and requirements in accordance with the rules and regulations.
  • Design the internal practice, measures, procedures and controls relevant to the prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing and describe and allocate the appropriateness and limits of responsibility of each department involved.
  • Maintain a Risk Management and Procedures Manual regarding Money Laundering, SARS and Terrorist Financing (AML Manual).
  • Apply monitoring mechanisms to assess the level of compliance of the departments and Company employees.
  • Give guidance for corrective measures where necessary and inform the Senior Management and Board of Directors where applicable
  • Detect, record, and evaluate, at least on an annual basis, all risks arising from existing and new clients and merchants, new products and services and updates and amend the systems and procedures applied by the Company.
  • Building, and taking accountability for, the AML/CTF risk management program and the undertaking of any AML/CTF risk assessment.

 

You should have previous insolvency accounting experience of working on corporate clients including restructuring and turnaround jobs, good business development skills and preferably  an existing network. You should be qualified as an Insolvency Practioner via the JIEB and ideally fully licensed to take on court appointments, whilst salary will be based on fit to the above.

Great opportunity to join highly successful & globally expanding firm with exciting plans for the UK, to both build your own division and help develop the whole UK firm.  

So, if that sounds like you, then please send your details to our MD, David Symes FCA, at david@compliancerecruitment.com (including contact no) however please note we cannot reply to all applications so only successful applications will be contacted (although under no circumstances are your details ever passed on without your specific permission).

 

Compliance Recruitment Solutions Limited (CRS) and Symes Collins are acting as an employment agency in relation to this role.

The recruiter has stated that all applicants for this job should be able to prove that they are legally entitled to work in the UK. Through application, all candidates signify their acceptance of the above information and confirm that the information they provide is true and accurate to the best of their knowledge