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Job Description
As a Compliance Assistant, you’ll begin your career in compliance by supporting key regulatory and risk management activities across the business. Working closely with experienced team members, you’ll gain hands‑on exposure to due diligence, client reviews, and compliance processes while building your knowledge of AML/CFT requirements and regulatory frameworks in a supportive and collaborative environment.
What You Will Do
- You’ll assist with regulatory approval processes, ensuring client documentation is complete, accurate, and maintained in line with compliance requirements.
- You’ll support Customer Due Diligence (CDD) activities, including conducting background checks, screening clients through World‑Check, and carrying out basic risk assessments under guidance.
- You’ll help review client files and gather information for compliance assessments, periodic reviews, and regulatory reporting activities.
- You’ll assist in preparing compliance reports and maintaining records across AML/CFT, corporate governance, and internal compliance frameworks.
- You’ll follow established compliance procedures and information security standards, helping to safeguard client information and escalate potential risks when identified.
What We Offer
- Comprehensive remuneration: Motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
- Pension Scheme: Generous employer contribution with the ability to allow and increase employee contributions
- Annual leave: All our employees are entitled to 22 days paid leave. Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave
- Flexible working: We recognise the value of working flexibly and is keen to ensure all employees enjoy an excellent work-life blend. As such, we are open to conversations with employees related to setting up flexible working arrangements
- Support and development: We will ensure you have the right training, tools and development plan to grow and improve your skills every day
Qualifications
About You
- You hold a degree in Law or a related field, and you’re interested in building your career in compliance or financial crime.
- You have relevant experience in financial services, ideally within compliance, AML, or operations.
- You have a basic understanding of AML/CFT principles and regulatory frameworks, and you’re eager to deepen your knowledge.
- You are detail‑oriented, organised, and analytical, with the ability to handle confidential information responsibly.
- You are a collaborative team player with strong communication skills, comfortable working in a structured, compliance‑driven environment.
Additional information
Our commitment to you and the environment:
Sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.
There is always more we can, and should do, to improve – whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.
Our learning and development programmes and systems (including PowerU and MyCampus) enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to their colleagues. We want to empower our 6,500+ employees - from 94 nationalities, across 24 countries - to each achieve their potential. Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support women managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.
We’re committed to growing relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients’ sustainability and success lead to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.
Company description
We’re a leading Investor Services group offering end-to-end services in administration, accounting, reporting, regulatory and compliance needs of the investment sector worldwide. We employ a global workforce of 6,500+ people across 24 jurisdictions and have assets under administration (AUA) exceeding US$857 billion. We work with 13 of the world’s top-15 private equity firms.
Our services are underpinned by a Group-wide commitment to ESG and best-in-class technology including a global data platform and innovative proprietary tools supported by in-house experts.
Above all, what makes us different is our people. Operating as trusted partners to our clients, we deliver intelligent solutions through a combination of technical expertise and strong relationships based on deep client understanding.
We’re driven by our Group purpose, to power people and possibilities.
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