The posting
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.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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.
Requirements
Must-Have Requirements:
- 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.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with African markets.
- Biometric verification.
- Fraud operations.



