Senior Officer, Compliance

Job Description

As a Senior Officer as part of the Risk and Compliance department in Guernsey, you will support the Compliance Team and MLCO/CO in protecting IQ-EQ from financial crime, fraud, terrorist financing, proliferation risks, and reputational threats. You will contribute to compliance monitoring, financial crime oversight, regulatory updates, and reporting for internal committees and the Board.

What You'll Do - 

  • You conduct compliance testing and maintain the Compliance Monitoring Programme, ensuring issues are escalated appropriately and records are accurately kept.
  • You support financial crime oversight by collaborating on sanctions screening and maintaining compliance registers to help safeguard against fraud, terrorist financing, and reputational risks.
  • You assist in preparing reports for the Board and internal committees, identifying risk areas and contributing to strategic compliance insights.
  • You help monitor regulatory developments and update procedures, ensuring alignment with evolving legislation and internal policies.
  • You foster strong working relationships across the Risk and Compliance team, responding to AML/CFT/CPF queries and overseeing overnight screening processes.

What We Offer -

  • Comprehensive remuneration and pension: motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
  • Wellbeing: additional social benefits such as private health and dental cover, life assurance, discounted gym membership, eye test and corporate GP
  • Annual leave: our employees are entitled to 25 days paid leave plus all Guernsey public holidays
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave
  • Flexible working: we recognise the value of working flexibly and want 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.

Qualifications

  • ICA Certificate or equivalent
  • Evidence of Continued Professional Development
  • Previous Compliance experience
  • Previous Fiduciary experience is desirable
  • Proficient in Microsoft Applications
  • Familiarity with Screening tools (Napier, Worldcheck, RiskScreen)

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 5,800+ employees - from 94 nationalities, across 25 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 leads to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.  

 


Company description

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. 

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