Meraki Talent are working with an exciting Fintech client in London looking for a Compliance Monitoring Associate to join their growing Compliance function.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
* Undertake regular compliance monitoring in accordance with the annual Compliance Monitoring Plan
* Identify any gaps or weaknesses in the Plan and propose remedial actions.
* Day to day management of the Plan ensuring tests are completed on time and that progress is made against the overall plan.
* Assist with scoping, implementing and managing second line testing to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements and business process.
* Report and discuss all findings with appropriate management obtaining their responses to the findings made and following up to ensure remediation.
* Document the findings, recommended actions and management responses together with agreed timescales and action owners.
* Follow-up management's implementation of agreed compliance actions and report all outstanding actions to the Senior Compliance Manager, and where relevant the Head of Compliance.
* Track business unit actions to mitigate risk and support continuous improvement across the business.
* Support the wider compliance team with ad hoc tasks as required.
Relevant experience:
* 2 – 3 years compliance monitoring experience within financial services.
* Broad understanding of the FCA rules and regulations.
* Good interpersonal and skills, able to interact with people at all levels both face to face, on the telephone and in writing;
* Strong documentation skills;
* Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and responding to immediate incidents;
* Ability to assimilate complex details quickly and present clearly to the business or in a report;
* Strong report writing skills, as well as attention to detail and accuracy;
* Draft planning materials, issues, reports and prepare test related materials as well as recommend ratings based on risk and findings;
* Work collaboratively with all business areas (during a review) as well as building strong relationships with key business partners;
* Ability to access and prioritise workloads whilst ensuring goals are achieved within allocated time frames;
* Able to work both independently and as part of a small cohesive team;
* A calm and methodical approach to troubleshooting issues in a pressured environment;
* Professional manner;
* Service orientated/self-starter attitude – can-do attitude.