Private Wealth Management Compliance Officer - Market Solutions Group - Vice President (m|f|x) London

The Compliance role is based in London and will have a particular focus on capital markets, equity structuring and managed strategies offering (including derivatives, structured products, new issues securities, centrally managed strategies). Responsibilities will include providing product related compliance advice, project management, updating policies, monitoring, thematic compliance reviews, product/trade approvals and post trade surveillances.

OUR IMPACT: 

Market Solutions Group Compliance works closely with the business to deliver to Private Wealth clients a broad array of investment solutions and to customize them to fit client’s needs.

This role will provide product related compliance advice and support to the PWM business. Specific tasks would include conducting compliance surveillance, review of marketing materials and training, product and trade approvals as well as advisory and, to a limited extent, project work.

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Tasks

• Provide advice to the business on live queries and/or transactions
• Conducting trading and suitability surveillance
• Providing Compliance input in product design and approvals
• Development and implementation of compliance-related policies and procedures 
• Providing review and sign-off of marketing materials prepared for distribution to clients / prospects
• Managing compliance-led projects and representing PWM Divisional Compliance on Firmwide and cross regional projects and working groups
• Impact analysis and implementation of regulatory changes affecting the PWM business
• Develop and deliver training for business personnel 
• Provide Compliance representation in Divisional Committees, such as Order Execution Review Committee
• Conduct programmatic reviews such as thematic reviews for Best Execution monitoring and other ad hoc compliance forensics

Profile / Your qualification / Your personality

• University degree and/or professional compliance / financial services qualification
• 5+ years’ compliance or other relevant financial services experience. Private wealth management / retail client experience preferred.
• Strong product knowledge and trading strategies used by PWM, e.g.  structured products, OTC derivatives
• Detailed Knowledge of local regulatory environment 
• Any knowledge of other European or international regulatory regimes an advantage
• Experience of conducting trade surveillance or equivalent monitoring activity
• Good interpersonal skills and effective written/oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to exercise sound and balanced judgment
• Attention to detail
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work under pressure 
• Team player
• As a minimum, good proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Power Point and Word 

That awaits you

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.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

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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Contact

Location

25 Shoe Lane, GB-EC4A 4AU London