Compliance – Financial Crime Controls – Associate – Birmingham location_on Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Global Compliance prevents, detects and mitigates compliance, regulatory and reputational risk across the firm and helps to strengthen the firm’s culture of compliance. Compliance accomplishes these through the firm’s enterprise-wide compliance risk management program. As an independent control function and part of the firm’s second line of defense, Compliance assesses the firm’s compliance, regulatory and reputational risk; monitors for compliance with new or amended laws, rules and regulations; designs and implements controls, policies, procedures and training; conducts independent testing; investigates, surveils and monitors for compliance risks and breaches; and leads the firm’s responses to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries.
Financial Crime Compliance (“FCC”) is part of the firm’s Global Compliance Division and is responsible for coordinating the firmwide anti-financial crime program. The team designs, develops, implements and oversees a wide range of systems and controls designed to prevent and detect money laundering, terrorist financing, government sanctions violations, fraud, corruption and other misconduct. Within FCC, the Conduct and Insider Threat (“C&I”) team is responsible for the firm’s whistleblowing framework (Business Integrity Program), Insider Threat Framework, and compliance Conduct Risk.
The successful candidate will engage in the FCC C&I program across EMEA, promoting the highest standards of employee conduct and business integrity.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
- Promoting the firm’s Core Values, Business Principles, and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
- Championing and managing the firm’s Business Integrity (Whistleblower) Program
- Investigating suspected breaches of firm or employee misconduct
- Conduct forensic reviews to identify breaches of firm or employee misconduct
- Implementing robust preventative and detective controls, policies and procedures, and training to support the firm’s Insider Threat Framework and Conduct Risk Framework
- Provide insightful conduct metrics and management information
Experience / Skill Requirements
- Experience investigating complex and sensitive matters with utmost discretion
- Detail-oriented, well organised and able to work autonomously
- Collaborates within team environment and raises questions or concerns where appropriate
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and stakeholder management
- Fluency in English mandatory. Proficiency in a second language is desirable
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Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state‑of‑the‑art on‑site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‑site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on‑site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
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