Experienced Compliance Officer

**Ready for your next challenge in Compliance within a confidential and international legal advisory environment? Join a leading independent legal advisory firm based in Monaco.**

We are recruiting an experienced **Compliance Officer** for a newly created position to structure and lead the firm's compliance function.

You’ll play a key part in securing high-level international transactions alongside a team of English-speaking legal experts and a demanding, diversified global clientele.

**Your Responsibilities**

Supporting a team of in-house legal counsels and servicing a variety of clients (international groups, HNW families, corporate structures, fiduciary entities), your tasks include:

- Ensuring regulatory compliance: AML/CFT (KYC checks), GDPR, local and cross-border obligations
- Updating and improving internal procedures: risk mapping, controls, compliance framework
- Acting as the internal compliance reference point, in close collaboration with legal advisors
- Drafting reports and compliance memos for partners and regulatory authorities
- Assisting with internal audits, inspections, and reviews
- Leading internal compliance training and awareness sessions
- Performing client onboarding verifications (due diligence)
- Monitoring regulatory changes, especially in the Monaco jurisdiction
- Managing alerts (e.g. suspicious activity reports) and overseeing transaction monitoring
- Driving continuous improvement and automation of compliance processes with the Office Manager
- Languages : you will be working in both French and English, and must be fully proficient in spoken and written communication in both languages._

**Your Profile**
- Master’s degree (Law, Tax, Compliance)
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a compliance role: legal firm, fiduciary, family office, private bank, or international advisory firm
- Experience in Monaco or familiarity with offshore structures/trusts is a strong asset

**Technical Skills**
- Strong command of AML/KYC regulations, GDPR, cross-border compliance
- Good understanding of corporate law and professional service provider obligations
- Excellent writing skills, analytical mindset, attention to detail
- Familiarity with Trust & Corporate Services regulations
- Proficiency with compliance tools (Finext, World Check, etc.)

**Soft Skills**
- Emotional intelligence, diplomacy, assertiveness
- Able to present compliance as an operational safeguard rather than a constraint
- Structured thinker, calm under pressure, pragmatic
- Discreet, humble, continuous learner
- Fully fluent in **French and English** (written and oral)

**Why join the firm?**
- Join a human-sized, high-caliber legal advisory firm
- Work on confidential, complex, high-level missions
- Play a key role in shaping the compliance function
- Evolve in a stimulating international environment focused on excellence and professionalism

**Compensation & Conditions**
- Attractive compensation based on experience
- Permanent contract (CDI)
- Full-time position (4-day option possible)
- Modern, welcoming offices in central Monaco
- Executive status

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Type d'emploi : CDI
Statut : Cadre

Rémunération : 70 000,00€ à 75 000,00€ par an

Langue:

- Anglais (Requis)
- Français (Requis)

Lieu du poste : En présentiel