Compliance Officer

RiverBank’s mission is to be the digital bank that makes financing to SMEs and Real Estate professionals easy.

From our offices in Amsterdam, Paris and head-office in Luxemburg we act as a niche lending specialist. Our core focus is to grant loans to Small and Medium Enterprises and Real Estate Investors in Europe using a fast, flexible and reliable IT platform.

RiverBank operates under a full and universal European Banking Licence delivering a one-stop shop approach in the entire EU.

As a young company, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team work. RiverBank will offer an entrepreneurial environment within the regulatory banking framework - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. Our culture will promote diversity and individual perspectives in an international environment, represented by more than 15 nationalities.

At RiverBank, we cherish our employees and foster a culture of learning and improvement. From your first day - where you will join a dedicated program to ensure your integration is successful - until many years later, you will be given the required resources to develop personally so that your career at RiverBank gives you a meaningful and lifelong learning experience.

**Department Profile**

The Compliance function guides the business through internal and external change and assists management in ensuring compliance with applicable local laws, regulations, business standards, rules of conduct and established industry practices. As a 'trusted advisor', and proactive and challenging partner to the business, the Compliance function aims to support RiverBank in executing its strategy through the provision of practical advice and a risk based program.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- To perform independent AML-KYC reviews;
- To own the control framework covering customer screening (quality assurance), and transaction monitoring and reporting;
- To support the CCO-MLRO in preparing investigations, reports and recommendations on suspicious activities and transactions;
- To provide compliance expertise and advice to Sales and Credit Officer teams;
- To execute controls of the Compliance Monitoring Plan;
- To ensure that appropriate screening, scoring and transaction monitoring is in place, including the development and/or implementation of monitoring processes and solutions (e.g., automated vs. manual processes, thresholds and other parameters);
- To ensure that local AML-related issues requiring Corrective Action Plans are resolved in a timely manner.
- To ensure the AML/CTF framework in Luxembourg, subsidiaries and branches includes specific local policy requirements and ensures that they are embedded within the business area.
- To assist the Chief Compliance Officer in developing and rolling out Compliance training programs for ongoing awareness and preventive culture

**Skills required**:

- You have a knowledge of IT (e.g. data management systems, data quality checks)
- You demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural environment with a wide range of different stakeholders
- You work independently, think and act out of the box and take accountability
- You have a ‘can do’ mentality and are able to embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment
- You have a curious and an innovative mindset
- You have excellent collaboration skills and ability to work across functional and geographic lines
- Full time & permanent contract
- Position based in Paris
- Under normal conditions, occasional travels may be required within the head-office in Luxembourg and in the other branch in the Netherlands
- A Certificate of good conduct (Casier judiciaire, Polizeiliches Führungszeugnis) will be required in case of positive selection

**Language**:

- English (required)