🕒 18 days ago
As a Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist, you will ensure Nexo's business activities comply with regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions while leading compliance initiatives and training team members.
MLRO (Lithuania)
📅 Aug 20
AML ComplianceKYC FrameworksRegulatory ReportingRisk Assessment
📜 Description
- Maintain, update, and enforce the Company's AML and KYC frameworks to align with Lithuanian and EU regulations.
- Conduct regular AML monitoring, testing, and risk assessments using automated transaction surveillance platforms.
- Serve as the primary contact for the Bank of Lithuania regarding AML/CFT regulatory reporting and audits.
- Report significant AML/CFT risks and suspicious activities to the Company's Management Board.
- Oversee client onboarding and KYC processes, providing guidance to operational teams.
- Deliver continuous AML/CFT training and updates to local personnel.
🛠️ Requirements
- Location/Language: Based in Lithuania, with fluency in Lithuanian and English (both written and spoken) to seamlessly interface with local regulators and international team members.
- Experience: At least 5 years experience in an AML role within a licensed financial institution, brokerage in Lithuania.
- Regulatory Expertise: Deep understanding of local AML/CFT laws and Bank of Lithuania regulations. Knowledge of MIFID II requirements would be treated as a plus.
- Mindset: Strong analytical skills, impeccable ethical standards, and the ability to translate complex legal and AML requirements into practical business workflows.
✨ Benefits
- A competitive salary tailored to your experience and expertise.
- Collaborative culture with close cooperation across C-level, IT, Trading, Operations, and Business teams.
- Opportunities for professional growth and continuous learning in a fast-paced financial sector.
- A modern, and supportive working environment.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
Full job description
About Us
XTB is a global company from the financial industry, focusing on online trading of financial instruments. We are the largest FinTech in Poland and a leader in Central and Eastern Europe, and the range of our operations covers several countries, including Asia and South America. At XTB, we focus on the development of our employees, giving them opportunities to gain knowledge and skills in various fields, as well as offering a number of training and development programs. If you are looking for challenges and want to gain valuable experience in an international business environment, XTB is the right place for you.
We are a certified Great Place to Work company.
MLRO based in Lithuania, will hold local responsibility and accountability for ensuring that all activities of the Company comply with Lithuanian Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT) laws.
Key Responsibilities
As our MLRO, you will be the backbone of our regulatory integrity. You will oversee and ensure the Company's ongoing compliance with applicable AML/CFT legislation, and the regulations and guidelines of the Bank of Lithuania. While you will maintain exclusive authority over local AML enforcement, you will be structurally supported by the advanced transaction surveillance infrastructure, automated screening tools, and centralized pool of specialized AML investigators from the XTB Group’s compliance function.
Your daily impact will include:
Framework Management: Maintain, update, localize, and enforce the Company's Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) frameworks to ensure absolute alignment with Lithuanian legislative mandates and applicable EU regulatory requirements.
Monitoring & Surveillance: Conduct regular AML monitoring, testing, and risk assessments. Utilize Group-level automated transaction surveillance platforms and screening systems to oversee the entire Company, its employees, and outsourced service providers.
Regulatory Liaison: Serve as the primary point of contact and manage the Company's relationship with the Bank of Lithuania regarding AML/CFT regulatory reporting, audits, and supervisory matters.
Risk Escalation: Execute the formalized escalation matrix swiftly. Directly report any significant AML/CFT risks, suspicious activities, or material deficiencies to the Company’s Management Board while coordinating mitigation reporting with the Group compliance function.
First-Line Oversight: Oversee and guide operational teams dedicated to client onboarding, customer due diligence, and KYC processes.
Staff Training: Provide continuous AML/CFT guidance, training, and policy updates to local personnel to foster a robust internal culture of financial crime prevention.
Reporting: Prepare and deliver periodic consolidated reports detailing critical risk indicators, localized regulatory developments, and AML audit outcomes to executive management and the Group function
What We Are Looking For
Location/Language: Based in Lithuania, with fluency in Lithuanian and English (both written and spoken) to seamlessly interface with local regulators and international team members.
Experience: At least 5 years experience in an AML role within a licensed financial institution, brokerage in Lithuania.
Regulatory Expertise: Deep understanding of local AML/CFT laws and Bank of Lithuania regulations. Knowledge of MIFID II requirements would be treated as a plus.
Mindset: Strong analytical skills, impeccable ethical standards, and the ability to translate complex legal and AML requirements into practical business workflows.
What We Offer
A competitive salary tailored to your experience and expertise.
Collaborative culture with close cooperation across C-level, IT, Trading, Operations, and Business teams.
Opportunities for professional growth and continuous learning in a fast-paced financial sector.
A modern, and supportive working environment.
Hybrid working arrangements.
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