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We are looking for a Senior Officer as part of the Private Wealth team in Guernsey who'll be managing first-line defence risks and contributing to ad-hoc projects. It helps ensure compliance and protects against fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, and reputational risks.
What You'll Do -
- You’ll collaborate across teams - including the Mauritius GCD, Private Wealth, and Compliance - to support first-line risk management and policy development.
- You’ll use sound judgment to identify and escalate risks, ensuring timely reporting and regulatory compliance.
- You’ll assist with client onboarding, due diligence, and risk profiling in line with CRA and SERR frameworks.
- You’ll coordinate and document committee meetings (ACE, AOC), track action points, and support board reporting.
- You’ll contribute to team development, monitor compliance feedback, and help drive quality assurance and risk control improvements.
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
- Ideally studying towards or holds a relevant qualification from a recognised professional body
- Excellent awareness and understanding of local regulatory requirements.
- Previous Client Facing, Risk and/or Compliance knowledge from a fiduciary environment.
- Good technical knowledge on AML legislation.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills.
- Experience of using screening tools such as Worldcheck and Riskscreen.
- Experience of interrogating and generating reporting from administration systems.
- Prior experience with 5 Series would be beneficial, but training will be provided
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.
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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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