Compliance Manager

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VN-10738

Fixed Term Contract (inc Secondee)

1 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AA

Competitive + Benefits + Bonus

25 November 2018

We are currently seeking an additional Compliance Manager reporting to a Senior Compliance Manager to advise in relation to a range of LGIM’s activities. The Compliance Manager will be responsible for pro-actively ensuring that we continue to meet the highest standards of compliance within the business areas assigned.

The Compliance Manager vacancy is within the LGIM’s Compliance Department, which has responsibility for seven FCA regulated firms covering investment management, property fund management and pension assets in separately managed accounts, UCITs, OEICs, SiCAVs, ACS, AIFs, ETFs, and unit linked insurance contracts. 

The department is led by the Chief Compliance Officer who reports to the Chief Risk Officer, with an additional functional reporting line into the Group Conduct Risk. 

The principal responsibilities of the Compliance team are divided between four Senior Compliance Managers in London who report to the CCO, whose responsibilities are aligned to particular business activities to provide a focussed business compliance service.  There are additional reporting lines to the CCO from Compliance Managers in our HK, Dublin and Tokyo offices as well as a dotted line from the Chicago office CCO.

We are currently looking for an additional Compliance Manager reporting to a Senior Compliance Manager to advise in relation to a range of LGIM’s activities, which may include some or all of the following:

  • Private Credit
  • Infrastructure Debt
  • Property & liquid Investments
  • Management of AIFs and English Limited Partnerships
  • Publicly traded bonds and REITs

The Compliance Manager will be responsible for pro-actively ensuring that we continue to meet the highest standards of compliance within the business areas assigned. 

  • Advise, challenge and monitor the first line's risk taking activities: Form an independent view of the risks being accepted by Real Assets and/or LGIM providing effective challenge on regulatory and conduct business risks ensuring stakeholders are cognisant of their responsibilties.
  • Be responsible for identifying risks to the business to ensure regulatory compliance through appropriate guidance and advice.
  • Ensure that all regulatory principles, are embedded into risk management practices, so that identified risks and controls focus on good customer centric outcomes, and that business processes and controls deliver the required regulatory outcomes.
  • Manage appropriate MI and identify and produce conduct risk metrics as required.
  • Demonstrate and employ regulatory knowledge by providing interpretive guidance and assistance in managing regulatory risk.
  • On occasion, assist with planned and ad hoc monitoring activity and ensure it is carried out in accordance with the monitoring procedures and that all issues identified are properly reported. .
  • Together with the senior management team, lead,  motivate  and  develop  the  compliance team  to  maximise   their  potential,  their  professional knowledge   and  their  contribution   to  the  business.   
  • Attend Boards, Committees and management meetings, as required, to provide appropriate advice and guidance to the governing bodies.
  • Challenge: Provides independent, informed, timely and objective challenges to the Real Assets businesses in relation to identification and management of key risks, and ensuring their business activities are within the risk appetite set down by the Board
  • Leadership: As a member of the compliance team, provide leadership, vision and         direction for an effective LGIM compliance environment and infrastructure.  Lead,  motivate     and  develop  the wider compliance team  to  maximise their  potential, their professional knowledge and their contribution to the business.
  • Expertise: Understanding of the regulatory requirements and rules, and conduct risks relevant to Real Assets and the Group and on the processes for managing such risks.
  • Advice: Guides the Real Assets and LGIM businesses on the formulation of conduct and regulatory risk strategies and policies across specific ares of Real Assets and LGIM as agreed, as well as the application of these to specific strategies, decisions or events. 
  • Analytical skills: Analyse regulatory developments and provide guidance where necessary through drafting compliance/regulatory reports to Boards, Committees, Senior Managers and stakeholders as required.  Demonstrate the ability to maintain a balance between a pragmatic,  commercial approach to compliance and regulatory matters whilst working to achieve the desired outcome for the businesses. 
  • Relationships:   Maintains  effective  working  relationships   with  internal  and  external   risk stakeholders,  such  as the Real Assets and LGIM executive  teams,  Group Internal  Audit and Group  Risk, and  effective liaison  with external  organisations, such as  the FCA, and other regulatory and relevant trade bodies

*Please note that this role could be offered as a Grade 4 (manager or G5 (Senior Manager) role, and is a 6 month FTC (potentially temp to perm)

 

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days' holiday, private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, as well as a 12% car allowance scheme, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

About L&G

LGIM is the investment management arm of Legal & General Group, a FTSE 100 company. We are one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor, with assets under management of £983.3bn* (as at 31 December 2017). Our success has been built by focusing on clients and providing them with services and solutions that meet their needs. We offer strategies across the full spectrum of asset classes, including equities, bonds, property, alternatives and cash, as well as multi-asset strategies tailored to the needs of institutional and retail investors.

LGIM is one of the world’s leading providers of index fund management. We are at the forefront of developments in liability-driven risk management solutions for defined benefit pension schemes, a leading provider of defined contribution solutions and also offer wide range of strategies to help our clients manage their investment objectives. LGIM continues to innovate as markets evolve, building strong relationships with clients including pension scheme, sovereign wealth funds, wealth managers and other professional investors.

We understand that our scale brings responsibilities. We play an active role in the companies we invest in, from exercising shareholder voting rights to directly engaging with companies at a board level. By engaging with businesses, we aim to unlock value for investors and shape the future and sustainability of financial markets.

In addition to having a leading position in the UK, we have selectively expanded into new markets across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the US. We believe that translating our capabilities to reflect the needs of our international clients will mean we are well placed to help them achieve their objectives.

*LGIM internal data as at 31 December 2017, including derivative positions and advisory assets. These figures include assets managed by LGIMA, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor.

About the business area

LGIM manages fixed income, equity, multi-asset, liability-driven investment, property and alternative solutions on behalf of its clients. Located across the globe, our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. In order to meet the complex and evolving investment needs of our clients, we focus on remaining at the forefront of investment product innovation and maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

About L&G

LGIM is the investment management arm of Legal & General Group, a FTSE 100 company. We are one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor, with assets under management of £983.3bn* (as at 31 December 2017). Our success has been built by focusing on clients and providing them with services and solutions that meet their needs. We offer strategies across the full spectrum of asset classes, including equities, bonds, property, alternatives and cash, as well as multi-asset strategies tailored to the needs of institutional and retail investors.

LGIM is one of the world’s leading providers of index fund management. We are at the forefront of developments in liability-driven risk management solutions for defined benefit pension schemes, a leading provider of defined contribution solutions and also offer wide range of strategies to help our clients manage their investment objectives. LGIM continues to innovate as markets evolve, building strong relationships with clients including pension scheme, sovereign wealth funds, wealth managers and other professional investors.

We understand that our scale brings responsibilities. We play an active role in the companies we invest in, from exercising shareholder voting rights to directly engaging with companies at a board level. By engaging with businesses, we aim to unlock value for investors and shape the future and sustainability of financial markets.

In addition to having a leading position in the UK, we have selectively expanded into new markets across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the US. We believe that translating our capabilities to reflect the needs of our international clients will mean we are well placed to help them achieve their objectives.

*LGIM internal data as at 31 December 2017, including derivative positions and advisory assets. These figures include assets managed by LGIMA, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor.

About the business area

LGIM manages fixed income, equity, multi-asset, liability-driven investment, property and alternative solutions on behalf of its clients. Located across the globe, our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. In order to meet the complex and evolving investment needs of our clients, we focus on remaining at the forefront of investment product innovation and maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.