Compliance Assistant

Ria Financial Services is the third-largest global money transfer company and a division of the North American public company Euronet Worldwide (Nasdaq: EEFT). Serving more than 140 countries in the world, RIA has emerged as a global leader in remittances and is a recognized benchmark in both quality and reliability of the service it offers to the general public.

Ria's compliance department is the best-in-class global anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-terrorist financing (ATF) compliance department. For this reason we strive to support the growth of our business with the reinforcement of our compliance department in the Benelux. To this end, we are hiring a Compliance Assistant for the Benelux area (Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands) who will provide assistance to the local compliance officer.

Based in Brussels, the main purpose of this position will be to give support, advice and provide guidance to various areas of the business and to ensure that the companies’ practices comply with FCA regulations and local/internal AML/ATF policies.

This role will include the performance of the following tasks:

•  Review of agent activity by ensuring that transactions carried out at our agent locations comply with internal AML/ATF policies.
•  Prepare and file STR’s for suspicious activity detected at the agent location or during the consumer or agent transaction review.
•  Provide compliance training to the agents (including the owner, compliance officer and/or employees).
•  Assess the agent’s knowledge of AML/ATF regulations.
•  Prepare and submit reports after the training and auditing of the agents/agent locations.
•  Follow-up on outstanding issues and recommendations encountered during the audits.
•  Keep the agents up-to-date on all RIA compliance rules and regulations.
•  Perform in-depth analysis of transactions using excel pivot tables to detect unusual/suspicious activity.
•  Participate in the creation of new policies.
•  To enforce risk management and mitigation processes within the company.

We are a leading multi-national company with a great multi-cultural environment and we offer real career development possibilities to our employees.

The ideal candidate has:

•  Bachelor’s degree in law
•  Experience/knowledge of compliance issues in a financial institution.
•  Transaction monitoring and AML/ATF experience.
•  Excellent communications skills in English and Dutch (High level, both oral and written).
•  Fluent in French (highly appreciated)
•  Ability to work in teams and to multitask.
•  Analytical and focused person with excellent attention to detail.
•  PC literate (PowerPoint and excel).

To apply, please send your application here.