Compliance Officer

Job Description

Douro Labs is seeking a Compliance Officer who understands the plumbing of institutional trust: someone who can walk a flagged counterparty through a documentation request one hour and brief the General Counsel on jurisdictional threshold risk the next. You will serve as the primary safeguard between Douro Labs and the institutional clients, prime brokers, and financial infrastructure players we onboard, managing the supply side of trust (running AML/KYC review on customers and companies entering our network) and the regulatory side (building the policies, audits, and controls that let Douro Labs pursue EU benchmark administrator licensing).

Responsibilities

AML/KYC Operations

• Manage the ongoing AML/KYC review queue via Sumsub
• Request and follow up on additional information from flagged customers and companies
• Escalate higher-risk or ambiguous cases to the General Counsel
• Apply onboarding policy consistently across individual and company customers
• Manage and maintain company-wide AML and sanctions policies

EU Benchmark Regulatory Readiness

• Work with engineering to build tracking for feed usage by product type and jurisdiction (EU/UK volume)
• Monitor usage against regulatory thresholds
• Manage customer usage audits
• Help prepare groundwork for potential EU benchmark administrator licensing (policies, procedures, code of conduct for data publishers)
• Develop and implement policies, procedures, and structures required to seek registration as a benchmark administrator in the EU

Internal Compliance

• Keep internal policies current across Douro Labs’ multiple entities
• Manage Douro Labs’ onboarding processes at counterparties’ request
• Support periodic reviews to keep the compliance queue moving

Finance Compliance

• Serve as the point of contact for financial compliance, coordinating statutory deliverables with the Finance team and appropriate record keeping
• Maintain internal financial controls: approval workflows, segregation of duties, digital asset policies etc.
• Coordinate the annual external/financial audit for relevant entities and serve as the compliance point of contact for auditors.
• Work with Head of Finance to ensure 360 coverage of all tax obligations across all entities.
• Ensure billing and revenue recognition align with signed customer contracts and applicable standards.
• Flag contract terms with financial/compliance implications and upcoming renewals.
• Track concentration risk across major counterparties.