Senior Compliance Manager

About the role

The Senior Compliance Manager will provide day‑to‑day advice, assistance and guidance to the Cayman Islands‑based compliance team, ensuring that Maples Group remains fully compliant with all relevant financial‑services legislation.

Key responsibilities

• Support the DHOC‑Caribbean in maintaining authorisations under AML, POCA, Terrorism, Proliferation Financing and related regulations.
• Oversee the effectiveness of AML/CFT/CPF and sanctions systems, operating independently of business functions.
• Investigate negative news, prepare Business Relationship Review memos, and manage escalations to senior management.
• Maintain logs for declined business, Politically Exposed Persons, regulatory requests, transaction alerts and sanctions monitoring.
• Approve high‑risk matters, relationships with PEP exposure, and oversee regulatory returns for DHOC‑Caribbean/HOC‑Caribbean.
• Develop, update and train on compliance policies, controls, manuals and monitoring programmes, ensuring ViClarity compliance.

Required profile

• Extensive experience in financial‑services compliance, AML/CFT, and sanctions regimes.
• Ability to work independently and provide unbiased assessments.
• Strong communication with senior management and regulatory bodies.

Required skills

• Proficiency with ViClarity compliance monitoring system.

What we offer

• Opportunity to lead compliance initiatives within a global financial services group.
• Collaboration with teams in the Cayman Islands and Leeds (UK).