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We’re seeking a driven and detail-oriented Senior Compliance Officer to join our team in Guernsey and support the Compliance Officer and MLCO at IQ-EQ. You'll play a critical role in delivering our compliance monitoring plan, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations. With a focus on financial crime prevention—including fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, and reputational risk—you'll help safeguard the business while promoting a strong compliance culture. This is a great opportunity to make an impact in a high-trust, high-responsibility role.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- You’ll lead compliance monitoring activities, uncover root causes of issues, and follow through on management actions—ensuring testing meets global standards.
- You’ll support financial crime efforts by contributing to sanctions audits, updating registers, and shaping AML/CFT/CPF policy and procedure enhancements.
- You’ll produce clear, actionable Board-level reports and collaborate on identifying risk areas for internal and external review.
- You’ll respond to internal advisory queries, prepare for audits and regulator visits, and handle GFSC requests and thematic reviews.
- You’ll help enhance business risk assessments, deliver compliance training, and maintain strong ties across regional and global compliance teams.
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
- Wellbeing: Additional social benefits such as private health and dental cover, life assurance, discounted gym membership, eye test and corporate GP
- Annual leave: All our employees are entitled to 25 days paid leave, plus all UK public holidays. 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 an ICA Diploma or equivalent, and you’re committed to continued professional development in the compliance space.
- You have solid experience in compliance, and ideally, a background in funds or fiduciary services.
- You’ve worked with KYC/CDD processes and understand client onboarding from a regulatory lens.
- You’re confident using Microsoft Office tools to manage and present compliance data efficiently.
- You’re familiar with screening tools like Worldcheck and apply them effectively to assess financial crime risks.
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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