Senior Compliance Specialist

Founded in 1994 by an advisor who left a large brokerage to go independent. Consultancy Desmet is a fee-only advisory practice with two advisors, a paraplanner and an office manager.

The Senior Compliance Specialist monitors and tests compliance with banking regulations at a community bank with $2.5B in assets and 30 branches. You can work from home anywhere in Belgium. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Main duties

• Advise managers on regulatory questions in day-to-day operations.
• Review suspicious activity alerts and prepare SAR filings within deadlines.
• Write and update compliance policies and procedures.
• Perform enhanced due diligence reviews on higher-risk accounts.
• Vet new products, marketing materials and disclosures before launch.
• Test branch and lending processes against policy and regulation.
• Track regulatory changes and assess their effect on products and processes.
• Coordinate regulatory exams and audit requests, and follow findings to closure.

About you

• 7+ years of compliance, audit or risk experience in banking or financial services.
• Experience with regulatory exams (FDIC, OCC, Federal Reserve or state regulators)
• Organised, with a careful approach to documentation.
• Sound judgment and the confidence to escalate.
• Familiar with AML monitoring systems such as Verafin or Abrigo.
• Strong writing for policies, findings and board reports.

What we offer

• Pension scheme.
• 25 annual leave days.
• Laptop and phone.
• Training budget.
• Travel allowance.
• Bike plan.
• 8% holiday allowance.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Belgium.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Consultancy Desmet.