Senior Advisor

Senior Recruitment Consultant - Financial Crime

A Senior Compliance Officer is required to play a pivotal role in supporting the Securities business across all aspects of compliance advisory and general BAU second line compliance duties.

Your expertise as a Senior Compliance Officer will help drive regulatory compliance, support strategic business initiatives, and build robust compliance controls while providing advice on complex regulatory matters. The team you’ll be joining is a second-line compliance advisory function.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for equities and or FX
• Provide day-to-day compliance and regulatory advice, ensuring alignment with FCA regulations and other applicable laws.
• Lead the analysis, interpretation, and implementation of relevant laws and compliance regulations, ensuring the business adapts effectively to changes.
• Strengthen and enhance the compliance framework, ensuring robust controls for new business initiatives.
• Represent compliance in key stakeholder discussions, offering strategic input and regulatory guidance.
• Conduct horizon scanning to monitor regulatory developments and ensure proactive compliance measures are taken.
• Support executing the firm’s Compliance Monitoring Programme (CMP), including deep-dive compliance reviews.

Required Skills & Experience

• In a similar compliance advisory role operating at the experienced AVP/manager level or a VP/Senior Manager level, ideally within investment banking, trading houses, or securities trading firms.
• A solid understanding of applicable regulations such as MiFID II.
• Proven ability to interact with senior stakeholders and be a trusted advisor.