Compliance Officer

About the role and the team

Are you that content-orientated compliance professional who wants to work in an international company based within a real asset industry? Would you like to deepen your communication skills and MIFID knowledge with your drive for accuracy and projects? Then my clients Risk & Compliance EMEA team offers you the right enriching experience!

 

The successful candidate will be covering all day-to-day aspects of maintaining a risk-based EMEA CDD Framework working alongside the Compliance leadership, as well as ensuring further strengthening of the EMEA Compliance Function, and also dedicating focus on executing and documenting the CDD process at EMEA level. The EMEA Compliance team is based in Amsterdam and is comprised of 15 team members  in total, covering both Risk and Compliance as well as relevant stakeholder management across EMEA.

 

Key job elements:

 

As a Compliance Officer, you will be responsible for proactively identifying and managing compliance risks associated with my clients operations and portfolio of real estate alternative investment funds.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Support the business in managing compliance related issues and risks and participate in projects as required
• Conduct reviews of Customer Due Diligence (KYC) files and maintain relevant documentation
• Perform reviews of marketing communication
• Conduct comprehensive compliance risk assessments and perform monitoring in accordance with the compliance monitoring plan
• Conduct comprehensive AML/CFT risk assessments and perform monitoring of AML/CFT requirements including due diligence on relevant service providers
• Investigate conflicts of interest, breaches and complaints, prepare relevant documentation and maintain corresponding registers
• Assist in interpreting, implementing and developing compliance policies, procedures, and processes
• Monitor changes in applicable law, regulation and guidance
• Prepare regular and ad-hoc compliance and AML/CFT reports
• Provide training and awareness sessions to employees covering regulatory requirements and internal policies
• Support the execution of internal and external audits
• Support the Director Compliance in any other matters as required
• Build and maintain relationships with various stakeholders across my clients operations in multiple jurisdictions

 

What do you have to offer us?

 

• You have approx 3-5 years of relevant post-qualification experience.
• You have excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• You have strong work ethics and out-the-box thinking and flexibility.
• You are fluent in English (additional European languages advantageous, e.g. Dutch).
• You have the ability to work effectively in a team and with various stakeholders on different levels.
• You have strong experience with various compliance platforms and softwares (WorldCheck, Metricstream).
• You have compliance background and, preferably, post-graduate education and strong experience in a related field (economics/legal/business).
• Experience with AIFMD is welcome

 

The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of compliance and MIFID AML/CFT requirements and their implementation into practice, excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex information to a non-technical audience, as well as the ability to work effectively in a team environment. The candidate should be self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to work independently.

 

Practical

You have to live in The Netherlands

 

Interested?

Are you interested in joining our client? We look forward to receiving your cv. For more information about the role, you can contact Patricia Koekenbier @ patricia@himanagement.nl or 0630400141