Compliance Officer & MLRO, Brazil

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PROOF OF WORK

THE TEAM

We are seeking a Brazil-based Compliance Officer & MLRO to build and lead the local compliance and financial crime programme for Payward Brasil. This is a hands-on role with end-to-end responsibility for the effectiveness of the firm’s AML/CTF/CPF and sanctions control framework, and for ensuring local regulatory expectations are embedded into onboarding, transaction monitoring, investigations, reporting, governance, and product launches.

This role will act as the designated MLRO/reporting officer responsible for managing internal escalations and ensuring accurate, timely reporting to COAF via Siscoaf.

Location/eligibility: Brazil (São Paulo preferred). Must be able to act as a statutory officer and be resident in Brazil.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Programme ownership & governance

- Own and continuously improve Payward Brasil’s AML/CTF/CPF and sanctions compliance framework, ensuring it meets local requirements and Kraken group standards.

- Maintain/uphold the local risk-based approach, including financial crime risk assessments and control design for higher-risk customers, products, and channels.

- Provide compliance sign-off/advice on Brazil go-to-market, product changes, and control decisions.

CDD/KYC/KYB oversight

- Oversee the Brazil customer lifecycle controls: onboarding, CDD/EDD, ongoing monitoring, periodic review, and remediation programmes.

- Drive vendor performance and escalation (e.g., identity validation, CPF validation, address/location checks), ensuring outcomes meet “verify/validate” expectations while remaining proportionate and auditable.

Investigations, suspicious activity & reporting (COAF)

- Own internal STR decisioning (triage, investigation quality, documentation) and external reporting to COAF, including maintenance of logs and confidentiality controls (anti–tipping off).

- Ensure operational readiness for Siscoaf filing, including required credentials/certificates and process controls.

Regulatory engagement & audits

- Be the local compliance interface for relevant authorities and examinations/audits; coordinate responses with internal Legal/Regulatory.

- Support readiness for licensing/registration milestones (including evidence packs, control attestations, governance artefacts, and remediation tracking).

Training, advisory & stakeholder management

- Deliver training and targeted comms for Brazil operations, CE, product, and investigations teams to ensure staff understand their responsibilities.

- Produce senior management reporting/MI, escalating material risks, incidents, and control gaps.

SKILLS YOU SHOULD HODL

- Demonstrated experience in AML/CTF/financial crime compliance within a regulated financial institution, payments, brokerage, fintech, or crypto/VASP environment.

- Strong working knowledge of Brazil AML/CTF expectations (incl. Law 9,613 and BCB Circular 3,978 referenced in our local programme).

- Hands-on experience with suspicious activity investigations, STR governance, and regulator-facing work.

- Proven ability to translate regulatory requirements into operational controls (product + ops + vendor integrations).

- Fluent Portuguese and proficient English required for regulatory engagement and global stakeholder reporting (written and verbal).

NICE TO HAVES

- Prior ex