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 30-minute courses, 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
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.
Each course is about 30 minutes, so the full eight-course pathway is roughly four 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.
Book a demo and we'll map the pathway to your firm's regulatory mix, PCF roles included.