Risk & Compliance Officer

The Opportunity

Our client, a prestigious family office serving a globally prominent family with diversified international business interests, is seeking a Risk & Compliance Officer to join its office.

This is a senior, hands-on role at the heart of the office’s governance framework. You will implement and maintain the compliance and AML/CFT framework, run monitoring activity, own the risk registers and help embed a strong compliance culture across the business, working closely with senior management and supporting regulatory engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Act as a trusted adviser, providing compliance guidance to internal teams.
Help deliver and maintain the Compliance Monitoring Programme and associated compliance reviews.
Identify weaknesses in systems and procedures and recommend practical improvements.
Maintain compliance registers, including breaches, complaints, PEPs, risk and sanctions.
Coordinate and prepare management information and board-level compliance reporting.
Carry out AML risk assessments, transaction monitoring reviews and sanctions screening.
Support AML/CFT procedures, ensuring accurate CDD records and timely periodic reviews.
Assist with regulatory reports and submissions under applicable proceeds of crime and related legislation.
Monitor regulatory developments and assess their impact on policies and procedures.
Support regulatory inspections, examinations and audits, and responses to regulatory requests.
Draft, review and implement compliance and AML/CFT policies and procedures.
Maintain and oversee the Risk Register(s) and Business Risk Assessment.
Support the implementation and enhancement of internal controls and risk mitigation.
Review new business onboarding and assist with screening and approvals.
Contribute to ad-hoc risk and compliance initiatives and wider company projects.

About You

Significant experience (typically 3–5+ years) in a compliance, risk or AML role within a regulated business, ideally a family office, trust company, fund administrator or private wealth firm.
Strong working knowledge of AML/CFT legislation, regulatory codes of practice and sanctions requirements in an international financial centre.
Hands-on experience of compliance monitoring, risk registers, business risk assessments and board/MI reporting.
Confident drafting policies and procedures and supporting regulatory inspections.
A relevant professional qualification (e.g. ICA Diploma in AML or Compliance) is highly desirable.
Discreet, detail-focused and pragmatic, comfortable advising senior stakeholders in a high-profile, private environment.
Fluent written and spoken English; willingness to travel periodically, mainly to the Middle East, with flexibility around the principals’ schedule.