Financial Crime Compliance Lead

Job Description

Financial Crime Compliance Lead, Latin America (VN3027) | Marex

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Marex, located in São Paulo, Brazil, with a focus on the broader Latin America region. Marex is a global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access, and infrastructure services to clients in energy, commodities, and financial markets. This role is critical for the design, implementation, oversight, and continuous enhancement of the Financial Crime Compliance framework across Marex’s Latin American operations, ensuring robust risk management and regulatory adherence during the firm’s continued expansion in the region.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: In-person – São Paulo, Brazil
• Team: Part of the Second Line of Defence FCC function, reporting to the Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Americas, with a dotted line to the local compliance officer in Brazil.
• Mission: To establish and lead Financial Crime Compliance activities across Latin America, ensuring financial crime risks are appropriately identified, assessed, managed, and governed for Marex’s continued expansion.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Lead: Establish and lead the Financial Crime Compliance program across all Latin American operations.
• Strategize: Act as the senior FCC representative for the region, providing strategic direction on financial crime risk management and driving a strong culture of compliance.
• Monitor: Monitor emerging regulatory developments and assess their impact on the firm’s risk and control environment, ensuring regional implementation of global FCC policies.
• Advise: Provide independent challenge and advice on strategic initiatives, new products, acquisitions, clients, and business expansion activities across the region.
• Oversee: Oversee AML, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, investigations, and fraud risk management frameworks in Latin America.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Senior-level Financial Crime Compliance professional with deep expertise in anti-money laundering, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, fraud risk management, and tax evasion within financial services.
• Experience: 10+ years of financial crime compliance experience, significant experience with Brazil and broader LATAM regulatory requirements (preferably within broker-dealer environments), experience operating across multiple jurisdictions, and a proven ability to build, implement, or significantly enhance compliance frameworks and controls.
• Skills: Fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, and English; strong risk management judgment with the ability to make and clearly articulate risk-based decisions; strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Bonus: A self-starter who thrives in a build-and-enhance environment, capable of influencing change across diverse business and regulatory landscapes, intellectually curious, adaptable, and able to operate across multiple financial crime disciplines.