Compliance
Assistant

Compliance | Isle of Man | Full Time

About Suntera.

Suntera Global is a leading international provider of fund, corporate and private wealth services, with over 45 years of experience and 550+ specialists supporting a diverse range of industries worldwide, empowering responsible ambition through professional delivery of governance, administration and accounting services, all while focusing on strong relationships and continually evolving to provide the best possible service to clients.

Job Description

About The Role.

As a member of the Isle of Man Compliance team, you will promote high compliance standards across the office by ensuring adherence to regulatory and financial crime regulations as well as Group compliance standards. Your primary responsibility will be compliance monitoring, whilst also supporting the wider Compliance team and contributing to continued development within the compliance environment. Depending on your experience, you may also be required to provide compliance assistance across the wider Group as needed. 

Your duties will include:

  • Work collaboratively with the Isle of Man Compliance team, ensuring timely delivery of all compliance tasks
  • Responsible for undertaking Compliance Monitoring, according to the Compliance Monitoring Programme (CMP) for allocated operating entity as instructed, including:
    • Identifying any non-compliance with regulatory requirements
    • Agreeing suitable action to be taken based on findings 
    • Ensuring agreed actions are tracked though to completion
    • Producing CMP Reports of testing undertaken, and action progress & completion
  • Assist in the maintenance of Compliance Registers, for allocated operating entity, including breaches and pricing errors (if applicable), complaints, conflicts of interest, regulatory returns calendar and others as required
  • Provide advice to the business in relation to regulatory requirements including policy and procedures, and any changes
  • Respond to compliance queries in a timely manner
  • Assist in preparing reports such as Compliance Reports to the boards for allocated operating entity. Ensuring awareness of Horizon Scanning events, policy and procedure reviews, updates and approvals and completion of returns (external reporting)
  • Responsible for reviewing daily overnight screening results and providing reports as required
  • Promote a positive compliance culture across the Isle of Man office and embrace changes as a path to development
  • Work closely with the Compliance Managers and Senior Managers to support improvements and best practices
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What i love about my job

"Suntera considered my role and long-term professional journey and gave me the opportunity to study whilst working. With support from my manager and the wider team, I achieved my STEP-certified qualification and earned the STEP Isle of Man award with the highest marks. Suntera provided me with training opportunities and is committed to creating an environment where all employees can grow and hone their skills."

Jake Kelly
Trust Manager, Private Wealth

About you.

You will be an enthusiastic individual, ideally with experience working in an office environment and a strong willingness to learn. The focus of this role will be on compliance-related activities and will support your development and understanding of financial services and financial crime regulation. 

The following attributes would be advantageous: 

  • Previous experience in a financial services environment
  • Basic understanding of the services provided by Suntera and of the regulatory environment
  • A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively within a team
  • A strong positive attitude to achieving team goals
  • Able to actively learn and demonstrate application of learnings into your work
  • Be proactive in making suggestions for improvement

Personal qualities

  • Integrity
  • Inspires client and team confidence
  • Adaptable and versatile
  • Assertive and confident
  • Discrete and tactful
  • Emotional resilience
  • ‘Can do’ attitude
  • Role model
  • Appropriate office conduct and attitude to work

 

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and develop new ways of working, where you will have the opportunity to input into the evolution of our business processes on an ongoing basis. In addition to a competitive salary, you will be rewarded with a performance-driven bonus, a comprehensive flexible benefits package, and the training and career opportunities that come as standard with a dynamic and rapidly growing group of companies.

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