Compliance Counsel

Compliance Counsel
Do you want to work with compliance in a global tech company? Then we offer an interesting position in a Danish-based Fintech company, with offices and colleagues in more than 20 countries around the world.

Job description
As a global company with an organisation spanning multiple countries and customers in the financial sector, compliance is essential to all the work we do in SimCorp. SimCorp is currently undergoing a process to further mature our compliance set-up, which brings more complex tasks across topics such as AML, sanctions, data privacy and market abuse.

As our new Compliance Counsel, you will be working in Copenhagen as part of our Group Legal and Compliance team. The team is responsible for providing legal advice on a broad range of topics. While the colleagues in Legal are focusing on our contracts, the Compliance organisation focuses on developing and maintaining a robust framework for regulatory compliance and assisting the organisation stay compliant with applicable laws and regulations.

Compliance in a global organisation
As our new Compliance Counsel, you will work closely together with the existing Compliance team to develop, implement and oversee our compliance framework. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and guide employees at all levels to ensure the organization stay compliant.

This role also offers a great opportunity to contribute to your own role based on your experience and interests within compliance.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Assisting with risk assessments to identify compliance risks across various business functions
• Developing internal training programs, including both e-learning and face-to-face training on relevant compliance topics
• Collaborate closely together with internal stakeholders to shape our compliance framework to the business
• Maintain policies on relevant topics, and ensure consistent application of those policies across the organisation
• Participate in activities to regularly monitor compliance activities across the organisation, and assess their effectiveness
• Maintain accurate records of compliance activities

Your qualifications
As our preferred candidate you:

• Have a degree in law or commercial law
• Have experience with relevant compliance topics, such as market abuse, sanctions, data protection, etc. – and are curious to learn about those topics, you might be less familiar with
• Have good analytical skills with attention to details
• Have advanced English communication skills, both verbally and in writing
• Have a good understanding of commercial issues and can balance the need for sound business advice with the need to maintain a high standard of advice

Effective performance in this position is often linked to a solid capability of engaging with others and a notable penchant for humour.

Benefits
Bonus schemes and pensions are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide an appropriate work-life balance and opportunities for professional development: there is never just one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take. Visit our career pages to learn more about working at SimCorp: www.simcorp.com/career

The role allows for flexibility including the option to work from home up to 3 days a week.

Next steps
Please click below to apply or contact Azeta GUITI and Emilie Terney Bech to learn more about the vacancy and what SimCorp offers regarding salary, benefits and perks.

Please note only applications sent through our system will be processed. Applications are continuously assessed, so please send your CV in English as soon as possible. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp's growth trajectory is thrilling, and our Talent Acquisition Team stands by to facilitate your journey towards the right professional placement. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

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Location: Copenhagen