Compliance Assurance Expert

Description

The Compliance Assurance Expert is responsible for ensuring that the organization adheres to all relevant laws, regulations, and internal policies. This role involves conducting compliance audits, developing risk management strategies, and providing training to staff on compliance matters. The Compliance Assurance Expert reports to the Compliance Assurance Manager, managing a team based in Paris and Spain, supporting AXA GO on Compliance matters from financial crime to geopolitical compliance needs, local third-party compliance, Intragroup Contracts, and International regulatory matters. The activities cover both the prevention and the remediation, acting as a strategic Business Partner vis-à-vis AXA GO team as well as the other AXA operational entities.

As Compliance Assurance Expert, your main objective and purpose is to:

• Protect AXA GO and its top management against sanctions or fines by addressing compliance and data privacy risks identification against both international and local regulations. Implement adequate assessment of the impacts across AXA GO's divisions, monitoring, and remediation design/implementation.
• Raise attention on compliance risks and control and help decision making by incorporating innovative problem-solving skills.

Main missions

The Compliance Assurance Expert will personally be involved in cases covering matters in compliance assurance and will notably be responsible for:

Compliance Control Framework

• Contribute to the various compliance, data privacy, and AI risk assessments across AXA GO and its subsidiaries based in Europe, Asia, and Americas. Ensure adequate reporting to Senior Management and to the AXA Group Compliance and Data Privacy functions, follow up and control along the year any relevant variation on the risk. Guarantee escalation to Senior Management in a timely manner when deemed necessary.
• Contribute to the Compliance Assurance plan to control the alignment of the Compliance activities (implementation requirements, policies and procedures, trainings and awareness, etc.) with AXA Group Standards and external regulations.
• Ensure strong alignment in terms of practices, control frameworks, and control review with other GO control functions (e.g. Risk Management, Internal Control, Internal Audit) and also other support functions where there is a strong need for coordination on recurrent activities such as the Third-Party Risk Management process (Vendor Risk Committee, Third Party Audits) with Procurement teams or the ISO certification process with the Information Security team.
• Provide both guidance and regulatory direction to develop new processes or controls. Foster transformation, innovation in the compliance landscape, implementation of best practices, identify areas of improvement and simplification.

Regulatory transformation

• Lead projects to accompany the Compliance & DP department in its transformation journey with regards to the need to comply with new regulations and to improve technical capabilities (e.g. more automation, AI use cases, etc.).
• Report and escalate any relevant change in regulations subject to generate additional risks or needs inside AXA GO's environment.
• Drive the change by leading transformation projects for the benefit of the Compliance & Data Privacy team and the other AXA GO teams.

Global governance

• Collaborate closely with the other teams reporting to the Compliance & Data Privacy department.
• Coordinate transversal initiatives/projects and work cross-functionally with the different teams reporting to the General Secretary & Risk Division (Risk Management, Internal Control, Legal, etc.) as well as other GO Divisions (HR, Finance) and Group Corporate Functions hosted within AXA GO (IT, Procurement, etc.). These initiatives would benefit AXA GO but also to other AXA operating entities that AXA GO is serving.
• Pilot and coordinate strategic Compliance & DP deliverables to be reported to GO Senior Management (Vendor Risk Committee, Risk & Compliance Committee, Executive Committee, Board of Directors) and/or to AXA Group functions and/or strategic committees. Ensure consistency between the different deliverables.
• Prepare, collect, analyze, and synthesize relevant inputs/pre-reading information for the Head of Compliance & Data Privacy Officer prior to operational meetings or strategic committees.

Monitoring awareness

• Maintain an updated knowledge of AXA GO teams and Senior Management about local and global regulatory updates and trends.
• Contribute to the overall monitoring of the Compliance & Data Privacy training plan and ensure that all employees and teams exposed to specific compliance risks (HR, Procurement, Executive Members, etc.) are sufficiently trained in alignment with Group standards and external regulations requirements.
• With the support of the other teams reporting to the Compliance and Data Privacy teams, continuously monitor changes in regulations and industry standards. Evaluate how these changes affect AXA GO and its operations and inform relevant stakeholders about their implications. Conduct training sessions and control a posteriori to identify potential areas of non-compliance and implement corrective actions.

Qualifications

Experience

• 7+ years' solid experience in Compliance, Risk Management and/or Internal Control in technology, insurance, and/or regulated sectors both in-house or from consultancy firm(s), preferably international entities.
• Operational knowledge in one or several of the following areas: General compliance, Financial Crime, International Sanctions, Risk Management, Data Privacy, or Internal Control.
• Language skills: full professional proficiency in English.
• Notions of the insurance or health sectors are a plus.

Technical skills

• Proven experience in Compliance, Risk Management, or Internal Control practices.
• Demonstrated success working in a high-performing, business results-driven environment.
• Critical thinking skills and experience assessing risks, measuring impacts, and building mitigation solutions with partners.
• Persuade and influence using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others.
• Strong European compliance and technological regulatory knowledge.
• Ability to design and direct operational implementation across AXA GO's departments.
• Fast build a thorough knowledge of the company and its processes.
• Strong compliance/risk analytical skills, business mindset with a risk orientation. Use of appropriate criteria to regularly evaluate company processes and compliance risk, challenge the status quo and ineffective processes, and promote constructive alternatives.
• Ability to effectively communicate with and convince management, win the trust of different actors in the organization while challenging and fostering change.
• Ability to build strong working relationships across a broad and varied mix of people and skills in IT and across business organizations.

Soft skills

• Excellent communication skills at all levels, including the capacity to explain concisely complex legal topics in simple operational ways to non-compliance collaborators.
• Strong work ethic, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with cross-functional teams, international and collegial corporate culture.
• Self-motivated, creative, and autonomous.
• Positive mindset, collaborative work style, and team-building orientation.

About AXA

As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working with 105 million customers, we've created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we're nurturing a culture of respect, for each other, for our customers, and the communities around us. Join AXA and you'll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You'll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries, and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.

AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation. We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution. We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security, and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary. At AXA Group Operations, we want to be recognized in three fields of action: - State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience - State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks - High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities.