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IQ‑EQ places the highest importance on compliance, integrity, and ethical standards. The Group Risk & Compliance (GRC) function protects the brand and supports business strategy by ensuring adherence to laws, regulations, and risk frameworks. As the Manager, Group Financial Crime Compliance, you'll work with the Senior Manager to maintain robust programmes against financial crimes such as money laundering, sanctions, fraud, and tax evasion. This role collaborates with stakeholders across the Group to drive best practices and ensure employees understand their obligations in preventing financial crime
What you'll do
- You’ll maintain and oversee the Group’s Financial Crime Compliance programmes, covering money laundering, terrorist financing, proliferation financing, sanctions, bribery, corruption, fraud, and tax evasion
- You’ll manage and update FCC registers, policies, and standards, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, tracking high‑risk country exposures, declined/exit business, and emerging risks
- You’ll provide assurance and reporting by analyzing system data, drafting governance reports for senior stakeholders, and monitoring the effectiveness of risk prevention controls
- You’ll oversee screening processes including PEPs, high‑risk country exposures, and acquisition due diligence, ensuring timely clearance and adherence to Group Minimum Standards
- You’ll promote compliance culture by updating training modules, managing communications, leading Financial Crime Network calls, and preparing alerts/blogs to raise awareness across the Group
What we offer
- Comprehensive remuneration: Competitive financial packages based upon market rates for your role, proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
- Pension Scheme: Generous employer contribution with the ability to increase employee contributions
- Wellbeing: Additional social benefits such as medical insurance & life assurance, discounted gym memberships and the opportunity to engage with our local community via sports activities, charity programmes & environmental initiatives
- Flexible working: We recognise the value of working flexibly and enable our employees to enjoy an excellent work-life blend
- Support and development: We will ensure you have the right training, tools and development plan to grow and improve your skills every day
Qualifications
Qualifications
- You have extensive experience in second‑line compliance roles, ideally complemented with a legal background (LLB/LLM with finance or banking)
- You demonstrate strong expertise in managing financial crime risks, drafting governance reports, analyzing data, and maintaining registers with exceptional attention to detail
- You apply deep knowledge of financial crime legislation and regulations, interpreting and implementing them effectively while ensuring compliant programmes are in place
- You excel in collaboration and communication, influencing stakeholders, resolving issues with a solution‑oriented mindset, and adapting in fast‑paced, multi‑jurisdictional environments
- You show resilience and professionalism, with strong organizational skills, cultural awareness, emotional intelligence, and a proactive approach to personal development and continuous learning
Additional information
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT
As a forward-looking business, sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining meaningful, 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 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 5,800+ employees - from 94 nationalities, speaking 41 languages across 25 countries - to each achieve their potential. Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support female 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 long-term relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our client’s sustainability and success leads to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.
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ABOUT IQ-EQ
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 5,800+ people across 25 jurisdictions and have assets under administration (AUA) exceeding US$750 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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