About the Role
This role will focus on the coordination of internal and external audit engagements for Compliance, ensuring recommendations and actions provided by regulators and auditors are tracked to resolution, performing validation/assurance on closures to ensure expectations are met. You will work closely with compliance leaders, audit, legal, product, and business lines across ADGM and the central compliance teams to maintain a comprehensive, standardized audit and regulatory issue management framework, including engagements, metrics, plans, processes, and remediations.
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Responsibilities
- Support the ADGM Compliance team on closure of regulatory exams and external audits using subject matter expertise in financial crime related frameworks and audit processes.
- Foster strong relationships with key Central Compliance functions to ensure effective engagement and delivery of items related to outsourced compliance activities.
- Follow a standardized exam and audit issue management framework, ensuring transparency on the progress of issue/action remedial activity is provided to all stakeholders.
- Track resolution of regulatory exams and audits providing support where required to ensure the ADGM entities are presented in a compliant manner.
- Perform closure validation on actions proposed as closed by the relevant teams to ensure closure satisfies the initial gap identified.
- Assist with special projects as needed, with the ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
Requirements
- 10+ years of compliance, audit and/or regulatory exam management experience, including performance of closure validation/assurance.
- Knowledge and understanding of financial services regulations, compliance policies, standards, and procedures.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, global organization while maintaining close contact with relevant teams across multiple locations.
- Excellent problem solving, communication and written skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts into a digestible format for a diverse audience.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to create external facing material in conjunction with internal stakeholders.
- Proactive and diligent teamwork, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
- Highly organized and capable of dealing with complex projects.
- BA degree or international equivalent.
- Experience gained from crypto/fintech and ADGM regulatory environment is preferred.
Why Join Us
- Shape the future of finance.
- Collaborate with world-class talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure.
- Tackle challenging projects in a fast-paced and innovative environment with autonomy.
- Thrive in a results-driven workplace with opportunities for career growth and continuous learning.
- Competitive salary and company benefits.
- Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the nature of the role and team).
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