Principal Compliance Officer, AML/CTF Advisory & Oversight

Are you enthusiastic about fighting Financial Crime? Would you like to put your knowledge into practice and become a trusted advisor on complex Financial Crime matters? This might be the right opportunity for you!
Are you enthusiastic about fighting Financial Crime? Would you like to put your knowledge into practice and become a trusted advisor on complex Financial Crime matters? This might be the right opportunity for you!

Principal Compliance Officer to join our FCC Advisory & Assurance team
We are looking for a Principal Compliance Officers to join our Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Advisory & Assurance Team covering our Large Corporates & Institutions business.

We act as a consolidated single point of contact for FCC Advisory and Assurance matters in Danske Bank. The team consists of a team of Subject Matter Experts who provide advice to colleagues and support the interpretation of Financial Crime Risk management policies, as well as maintain oversight on financial crime controls operated by other teams within the bank including performing assurance on relevant controls. Internal stakeholders include customer-facing units, Financial Crime Risk Prevention and internal Compliance colleagues.

Your role
The Principal Compliance Officer’s (“PCO") role within the team is to support the head of the team in the delivery of these activities.

• Respond in a timely manner to queries received by the team from Business, Risk and Compliance or any other relevant stakeholders. Act as support and guide for other members of the team in these matters.
• Maintain an excellent understanding of internal Financial Crime Policies, Instructions and Procedures as well as relevant external regulatory developments in order to effectively support on interpretation and application of Financial Crime Compliance Policies, Instruction and Procedures.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders within the relevant business areas and across lines of defense.
• Proactively identify and escalate queries, findings or issue to specialized Financial Crime Compliance teams or the team lead on a timely basis. Act as a central coordinator or see such items through to resolution as required.
• Execution of Group Financial Crime Compliance oversight activities against area of coverage. This includes planning, executing and reporting on assurance reviews performed on financial crime controls in these areas as well as logging and tracking any material findings.
• Act as a role model for the Bank’s values and maintain the highest level of integrity as would be expected from Group Compliance personnel.

Who you are
The ideal candidate will possess very strong communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence peers and senior managers, articulating complex matters in a clear and concise manner. The candidate should have a structured approach to problem solving and be self-motivated, capable of driving forward the work of the team. Additionally, excellent report and narrative writing abilities, combined with a strong eye for detail, are crucial for this role.

In addition, we imagine that you possess following:

• Experience of working in a second line of defence advisory team, preferably with AML and CTF matters.
• An excellent knowledge of Financial Crime risks and controls as well as a very good understanding of the regulatory risk environment applicable to Danske Bank.
• Strong experience of providing input, advice or reporting to senior stakeholder.
• Strong experience of performing critical assessments of key controls and documenting findings and observations.

Knowledge of Asset Management is highly desirable and high level of proficiency in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian or Finish is desirable.

This position is in Copenhagen, but exceptional candidates based in Stockholm, Oslo or Finland will be considered.

Interested?
Send us your CV and application. Please note, that we are processing applications on a continuous basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

If you want to know more about the job, feel free contact David Gilchrist at [email protected].

We are looking forward to receiving your application!
Adresse:
Bernstorffsgade 40
1577 København V