Compliance Analyst

Role overview

We are seeking a Compliance Analyst to join the Compliance team in Dublin, Ireland. This permanent, full-time role reports to a Senior Compliance Manager and focuses on testing and monitoring activities that support the firm’s investor protection and regulatory compliance framework.

What you’ll be doing

You will carry out periodic compliance checks in line with the monitoring plan, covering areas such as MiFID II suitability, appropriateness, product governance, and client categorisation. In addition to testing, you will review marketing materials, share practical feedback with business teams, and help strengthen the firm’s compliance controls through ongoing recommendations and reporting.

Reporting and stakeholder interaction

The role involves working with a broad range of internal stakeholders, presenting monitoring outcomes in regular compliance meetings, and helping prepare management information for committee and board reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Carry out monitoring work in accordance with the Compliance Monitoring Plan.
• Draft reports that set out observations, findings, and recommended actions for senior review.
• Issue final reports to the relevant first-line teams and follow up until findings are addressed and closed.
• Present results and recommendations when required.
• Prepare management information for recurring committee and board packs.
• Support updates to compliance policies and procedures.
• Help deliver compliance training for the first line of defence.
• Assist with responses to the Central Bank of Ireland.
• Review business marketing content for compliance purposes.
• Support additional compliance activities as needed.

Skills and competencies

• Self-starter with a proactive, ownership-driven approach.
• Ability to provide clear, practical guidance to business teams.
• Sound judgment and the confidence to influence outcomes.
• Strong teamwork skills and the ability to work across groups.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and openness to feedback.
• Willingness to take on new responsibilities and grow in the role.

Regulatory and conduct expectations

Under the Central Bank of Ireland’s Individual Accountability Framework and the Common Conduct Standards, the role carries a Duty of Responsibility as an expected Control Function holder. This means the successful candidate is expected to act with honesty and integrity, exercise due skill, care and diligence, cooperate in good faith and without unnecessary delay with the Central Bank of Ireland, act in the best interests of customers and treat them fairly and professionally, and comply with relevant market conduct and trading venue rules.

Requirements

• A third-level qualification is preferred.
• Strong Microsoft Office capability, particularly advanced Excel skills.
• Experience working in financial services.
• Previous exposure to compliance monitoring or assurance testing is an advantage.
• LCI qualification is preferred, or a willingness to work toward it.

Additional information

This position is designated as a Control Function 2 (CF2) role under the Central Bank of Ireland’s Fitness and Probity Standards, meaning it involves ensuring, controlling, or monitoring compliance by a regulated financial services provider with its obligations.