Compliance and Risk Officer

Description

We are hiring a hands-on Compliance and Risk Officer in Cyprus to coordinate regulatory compliance and strengthen customer verification and fraud controls across its digital lending markets.

• Coordinate regulatory and licensing obligations, working with local regulators, advisers and partners.
• Maintain compliance policies, procedures, documentation and required reporting.
• Manage KYC and screening providers, including document verification, liveness checks and facial matching.
• Configure matching rules and thresholds; analyse false positives and verification failures to improve accuracy and the customer experience.
• Run structured testing, including controlled A/B tests where appropriate, with product and technology teams.
• Help investigate suspicious activity, assess emerging fraud and operational risks, and recommend controls and escalation procedures.

• Compliance or risk experience in fintech, lending, payments or banking.
• Strong understanding of KYC, AML, customer due diligence and identity verification.
• Practical experience configuring and improving verification or screening systems (document checks, liveness, face match, matching rules and thresholds).
• Experience with regulatory and licensing obligations, compliance policies and regulator reporting.
• Strong analytical judgement and ownership; able to work with technical teams and stakeholders across markets.

• Experience with African markets.
• Biometric verification.
• Fraud operations.