Part-Time Financial Compliance Auditor – AML/CFT

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Honduras.

📋 Description

• Oversee and track periodic compliance certification obligations for regulated entities, including follow-up and escalation of any overdue or missing submissions.

• Execute remote, risk-based evaluations of regulated financial entities.

• Analyze and assess KYC, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and controls related to suspicious activity reporting.

• Evaluate AML/CFT controls and, where applicable, the effectiveness and quality of blockchain analytics utilized by money transmitters and digital asset businesses.

• Conduct risk assessments, sampling, control testing, and review of evidence.

• Prepare comprehensive examination workpapers that document the scope and methodology, sampling strategy, testing conducted, evidence collected, findings and conclusions, along with management responses.

• Document findings based on severity, define necessary corrective actions and timelines, and ensure remediation is monitored until closure.

• Maintain detailed and accurate records of audits, certifications, findings, and examinations.

• Track time spent on each regulated entity.

• Identify scenarios where regulatory requirements cannot be effectively tested or when actual practices diverge from established standards, and escalate these issues as needed.

• Implement and evaluate existing regulatory standards rather than creating long-term supervisory frameworks, developing regulatory policies, benchmarking regulations, building teams, or managing personnel.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in financial-sector examination, internal or external audit, regulatory compliance, or AML/CFT compliance.

• Proven experience in personally conducting audit or examination fieldwork, which includes risk assessment, sampling, control testing, workpaper documentation, and written audit findings.

• Background in a regulated financial environment, such as banking, insurance, fintech, financial services, or financial regulatory/supervisory institutions.

• Working knowledge of Honduran AML/CFT regulations.

• Familiarity with the FATF Forty Recommendations.

• Understanding of the GAFILAT regulatory/evaluation framework.

• Professional proficiency in both English and Spanish, both written and spoken.

• Strong analytical abilities and capacity to work independently with minimal supervision.

• Capability to function effectively while processes and examination procedures are still being established.

• Residency in Honduras is required.

• Preferred: Previous experience with CNBS, UFI, a Honduran bank or insurer, a financial-services audit practice, or a regulated fintech.

• Preferred: Experience in examining money services businesses/money transmitters, digital asset or cryptocurrency enterprises, or insurance companies.

• Preferred: Experience with blockchain transaction monitoring or blockchain analytics.

• Preferred: Professional certifications such as CAMS, ICA, CPA, CIA, Honduran Contador Público, or other relevant audit/compliance certifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Part-time schedule: 20 hours per week.

• Initial two-month pilot program with the potential for month-to-month extensions.

• Remote work available from Honduras.

• Workday must overlap for at least 4 hours with Tegucigalpa, Honduras.