Career Opportunity - Risk & Compliance Specialist

Our client, a reinsurance company based in Barbados, is seeking to recruit an experienced professional for the role of Risk & Compliance Specialist. 

The Role

The Risk & Compliance Specialist will report to the Corporate Services Manager and will be responsible for:

• Ensuring compliance with all regulations and legislative requirements impacting the group of companies under the company’s portfolio.
• Maintaining updated Compliance Policies and Entity Risk Assessments.
• Implementing and overseeing established compliance programs to support effective and efficient business processes.
• Working with the operations teams to remediate incidents of non-compliance.
• Managing ongoing refresh requirements.
• Assisting with the implementation of compliance related projects.
• Preparing quarterly compliance Board Meeting reports. 
• Preparing materials for regulatory and independent reviews.
• Assessing customers ensuring completed KYC documentation, analysis and customer risk profiles.
• Preparing and maintaining required documentation for new and existing bank and custodial accounts and investment market openings.
• Completing and coordinating documentation required by legal and acquisition teams to implement strategic transactions.

The Candidate

The Risk & Compliance Specialist will possess:

•  A Bachelor’s degree in Law or Accounting with a minimum of five (5) years’ post graduate accounting/audit, corporate secretarial or paralegal experience.
• An ACCA or Chartered Secretary designation.
• Sound knowledge of the Barbados Regulatory environment shaped by the Financial Services Commission and the International Business Unit.
• Excellent organisational, analytical and problem-solving skills with an eye for detail and accuracy.
• Strong project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work in a small office environment.
• Respect for confidentiality.
• An ability to use initiative and prioritise efficiently.
• High proficiency in the use of compliance management software and Microsoft Office Suite; Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

All suitably qualified candidates interested in this opportunity should send their Curriculum Vitae with full details of their experience, achievements and qualifications, along with the names and contact details of two business references to https://caribbeancatalyst.hire.trakstar.com/jobs/fk0pe2c?source= no later than August 19, 2025.