The Role
My client, a regulated Irish life insurance company, is seeking and experienced and dynamic Senior Compliance Officer to join their team. This is a full-time, hybrid, 11-month fixed term contract.
As the Senior Compliance Officer, you will support the Compliance Team in maintaining a robust compliance framework, managing regulatory risk, and ensuring adherence to policies and controls across the group.
Tasks & Duties
- Promote a customer-centric, ethical compliance culture across the organisation.
- Lead financial crime monitoring, reporting, and framework oversight.
- Support execution of the Annual Compliance Plan, tracking activities and deadlines.
- Ensure ongoing compliance with laws and regulations; provide guidance and horizon scanning.
- Deliver compliance and data protection training; advise business units as needed.
- Maintain compliance policies, procedures, trackers, logs, and regulatory records.
- Support acquisitions, projects, and initiatives with compliance input.
- Execute monitoring plans, PEP & sanction screening, and manage customer risk ratings.
- Manage regulatory correspondence, returns, fees, and group-level reporting.
- Assist in stakeholder management, risk event tracking, and reporting dashboards.
Experience, Knowledge & Qualifications
- 4+ years in insurance, ideally within life or reinsurance.
- Strong knowledge of financial crime risk and cross-border compliance.
- Experience analysing regulations and advising Compliance peers/managers.
- Excellent communication and report-writing, with stakeholder management skills.
- Organised, self-motivated, flexible, and able to manage competing priorities.
- Analytical, detail-oriented, proactive, with IT skills and process improvement mindset.
For further information please contact Sabrina at FRS Recruitment
