KYC Analyst responsible for verifying customer identities, handling documentation and ensuring compliance at Plum, the smart saving and investing app.
About the role
- Head of Compliance and Financial Crime leading compliance frameworks for Aave Labs, regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Ensuring adherence to regulatory obligations across jurisdictions.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the approved PCF-12 (Head of Compliance) and PCF-52 (Head of AML/CTF).
- Maintain overall responsibility for the firm’s compliance and AML/CTF frameworks.
- Ensure the firm complies with all applicable Irish and EU regulatory obligations.
- Provide formal Compliance and Financial Crime reporting to the Irish Board.
- Act as primary regulatory liaison with the Central Bank of Ireland in respect of compliance and financial crime matters.
- Ensure robust implementation of AML/CTF controls, including business-wide and customer risk assessments; CDD/EDD frameworks; ongoing monitoring and transaction monitoring; suspicious activity reporting; and sanctions compliance.
- Contribute towards the design, implementation, and continuous enhancement of a Group-wide compliance and financial crime framework, ensuring alignment with applicable regulatory requirements in Ireland, the UK, and the US.
- Promote consistent standards, governance principles, and control frameworks across jurisdictions, while accommodating local legal and regulatory nuances.
- Oversee the Group Compliance Plan, including regulatory reporting obligations, monitoring and testing programmes, and remediation tracking.
- Provide consolidated management information and thematic reporting to Group leadership and relevant Boards.
- Act as an escalation point for first line teams across jurisdictions, including the Financial Crime and Support teams.
- Support regulatory engagement and examinations across all jurisdictions, including coordination of responses and remediation activities.
- Partner with Product, Operations, Engineering, and Legal teams to ensure regulatory requirements are embedded into new products, market expansion initiatives, and operational processes.
- Support global expansion efforts by assessing regulatory implications and building scalable control frameworks.
- Monitor and assess global regulatory developments ensuring proactive implementation of new requirements.
- Foster a strong culture of compliance, integrity, and financial crime awareness across the organisation.
- Lead Compliance and Financial Crime training programmes across jurisdictions.
- Maintain strong working relationships with regulators, law enforcement, auditors, and external advisors across Ireland, the UK, and the US.
- Mentor and develop members of the Compliance and Financial Crime teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in law, finance, business, or related field (professional certifications such as ACAMS, ICA, or equivalent highly desirable).
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in senior compliance and/or financial crime roles within regulated financial services.
- Demonstrable experience in payments and/or cryptoasset businesses across multiple jurisdictions.
- Experience interacting directly with regulators and Boards.
- Strong knowledge of Irish, EU, UK, and US regulatory frameworks applicable to payments and/or cryptoasset service providers.
- Experience performing a PCF or equivalent senior regulatory control function is highly desirable.
- Strong leadership capability, with the ability to operate both strategically and hands-on.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- A pragmatic, commercially aware problem-solver with a builder mindset.
Benefits
- Equal opportunities employer
- Diverse workforce
- Safe and valued environment
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