Compliance officer training for Irish regulated firms
A compliance officer training course shaped like the job actually is. Eight 30-minute, CPD accredited courses take a new or experienced compliance officer, MLRO or head of compliance through the obligations Irish regulators test, from anti money laundering training under the Criminal Justice Act to SEAR, DORA and the 72-hour breach clock.
- Audience
- Compliance officers, MLROs, heads of compliance
- Format
- Eight courses of 30 to 40 minutes, self-paced
- Assessment
- Randomised exam per course
- Certificates
- CPD accredited, one per course
- Tracking
- Harrington Hub dashboard included
- Refresh
- Annual re-enrolment, automatic
What the compliance officer pathway covers
Eight courses, sequenced the way the role meets them. Each ends with a randomised exam and its own certificate.
Anti Money Laundering
The Criminal Justice Act, CDD, suspicious transaction reporting and MLRO duties: the core of the role.
Fitness & Probity
Controlled Functions, the F&P standards and the annual certification cycle the compliance officer usually runs.
Conduct Standards
The IAF Common and Additional Conduct Standards under SEAR, and the reasonable steps that evidence them.
Conduct Risk
How products, incentives and culture create customer harm, and how the Central Bank assesses it.
Corporate Governance
Boards, committees, risk appetite and the three lines of defence, and where compliance reporting lands.
Operational Resilience
Important business services, impact tolerances and ICT incident reporting under DORA.
Data Protection
GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, DSARs and the 72-hour breach clock.
Whistleblowing
Protected disclosures, mandatory channels and timelines. The compliance officer is usually the designated recipient.
Working under UK authorisation too? Add the SM&CR and UK Conduct Rules courses.
What a compliance officer must evidence
Four things a Central Bank supervisor, an internal auditor or a professional body will ask to see, usually in the first ten minutes.
- Their own training and CPD record, current and dated
- Firm-wide training coverage: who took what, when, and scored what
- Reasonable steps under SEAR for the functions they hold
- An unbroken audit trail when the Central Bank or an auditor asks
Who the pathway is built for
Role mapping under Fitness and Probity and SEAR, the CPD hours each course carries, and what the exam issues.
Roles it maps to
Compliance officers and heads of compliance, MLROs and heads of AML/CFT compliance, data protection leads, and the people stepping up into any of them. The compliance and AML head roles are pre-approval controlled functions under the Central Bank’s Fitness and Probity regime, and in SEAR firms carry prescribed responsibilities. The pathway covers the obligations behind each.
CPD hours
Each of the eight courses carries CPD accreditation codes issued by the LIA and the Institute of Banking and is recorded at 0.5 CPD hours, four hours across the pathway. Certificates state the code, the outline, the date and the score, so hours can be logged under the Minimum Competency Code or a professional body scheme.
Exam and certificates
Every course ends in a randomised exam drawn from a question bank, so each learner sees a different paper. A pass issues a timestamped certificate for that course. Complete all eight and the dashboard holds the full set, exportable in one click as the officer’s training record.
Compliance officer training, answered
What new and experienced officers ask before starting the pathway.
Talk to usThe Harrington pathway covers the eight areas Irish compliance officers are examined on in practice: anti money laundering, Fitness & Probity, the SEAR conduct standards, conduct risk, corporate governance, operational resilience under DORA, data protection and whistleblowing. Each course is about 30 minutes and CPD accredited.
Yes. The pathway takes a new compliance officer or MLRO from the legal basis of each obligation to the practical evidence a regulator expects, and works equally well as an annual refresher for experienced officers.
Courses run 30 to 40 minutes, so the full eight-course pathway is about four and a half hours, completed at your own pace, in any browser, with a CPD accredited certificate per course.
Yes. Every course issues a timestamped, CPD accredited certificate stating the hours, outline and exam score. Around four CPD hours across the full pathway.
Also worth a look: AML certification · the full catalogue of 23 CPD accredited courses
Train the officer. Certify the firm.
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