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Senior Officer - Sanctions Advisory
Ebury Malaga Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home per week
The Senior Officer - Sanctions Advisory is responsible for providing expert guidance and specialized support for Ebury 's sanctions compliance framework across Global. This role serves as a crucial point of escalation, ensuring that complex business transactions, client onboardings, and operational queries are fully aligned with internal risk appetite and external regulatory requirements, including OFSI,EU,US and relevant local authorities.
What you'll do
- Sanctions Advisory & Escalations: Serve as the SME for the business and first-line defense teams. Review and adjudicate complex Level 2/Level 3 sanctions escalations, providing clear, actionable advice on proposed transactions, trade finance deals, and high-risk client onboardings.
- Regulatory Analysis & Interpretation: Continuously monitor updates and guidance from major sanctions bodies (e.g., OFAC, HM Treasury/OFSI, EU, UN). Analyze the impact of new designations, general licenses, and sectoral sanctions on Ebury's operations and advise stakeholders accordingly.
- Policy & Governance: Assist in the continuous improvement of the Group Sanctions Policy. Draft and update standard operating procedures (SOPs) and advisory notes to ensure business units understand and implement sanctions requirements effectively.
- Complex Investigations: Conduct deep-dive investigations into potential sanctions breaches or highly complex matches (e.g., multi-jurisdictional supply chains, obscure UBO structures, and potential evasion typologies).
- Training & Awareness: Develop and deliver targeted, real-world sanctions training to operational teams, sales staff, and compliance peers to elevate the organization's overall sanctions awareness and first-line defense capabilities.
- Strategic Alignment: Collaborate with the Sanctions Screening and Systems teams to provide feedback on false positive trends and true match typologies, helping to optimize and tune global screening logic and minimize operational friction.
What you'll need
- Sanctions Expertise: 3-5+ years of experience in a financial crime compliance role, with a dedicated focus on sanctions advisory, complex alert adjudication, or sanctions investigations.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Deep working knowledge of international sanctions regimes (particularly OFAC, OFSI, and EU) and an understanding of the legal concepts surrounding asset freezing, ownership/control rules, and sectoral restrictions.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in navigating and investigating corporate registries to unwrap complex UBO structures. Familiarity with industry-standard screening platforms (e.g., LexisNexis, Dow Jones, FircoSoft) and case management systems.
- Analytical & Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to interpret dense legal/regulatory text and translate it into practical, easy-to-understand business
advice. Strong written communication skills for drafting formal advisory opinions and memos.
- Business Acumen: Proven ability to balance strict regulatory adherence with commercial realities, offering compliance solutions that protect the firm while supporting legitimate business growth.
Why Ebury?
- Competitive Starting Salary with an annual discretionary bonus that truly rewards your performance from day one.
- Dedicated Mentorship: Learn directly from experienced managers who are invested in your success.
- Cutting-Edge Technology: Leverage state-of-the-art tailor made tools and systems that enable you to perform at your best.
- Clear, Accelerated Career Progression: Defined pathways to leadership and specialist roles within Ebury.
- Dynamic & Supportive Culture: Work in a collaborative environment where teamwork and personal growth are prioritized.
- Generous Benefits Package: Access competitive benefits tailored to your location, which typically include health care and social benefits.
- Central Office: A fantastic location with excellent transport links.
Ready to launch your career with a global FinTech? Click the 'Apply' Today and discover your potential at Ebury!
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About us
Ebury delivers sophisticated, integrated solutions — business accounts, hedging, and financing — on a single platform with a seamless workflow. Our success is built on a simple premise and singular purpose: To help businesses operate and scale globally.
Since its founding in 2009, Ebury has always been a fast-growing leader in fintech. Today, we bring together 1,800+ Eburians across nearly 70 cities and we're always looking to add to our team.
At the heart of our offering is a proprietary platform, purpose-built to help businesses seamlessly streamline and manage global cash flow. We focus on continuous product evolution and innovation to build the infrastructure for borderless growth and help our clients scale at every stage.
The opportunities at Ebury are as diverse as our people, ranging from business development to engineering roles across our tech pillars.
We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and are against the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story.
