Administrator - Compliance Support

Compliance Associate

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) CI LLP (PwC CI) has an exciting opportunity available for a Compliance Associate to complement our Compliance Team in the Channel Islands.

The Compliance Team plays a vital role in ensuring PwC CI complies with its regulatory obligations under the Guernsey and Jersey Anti Money Laundering (AML) regulations and also supports the firm in managing adherence to auditor independence and ethics requirements. We do this by carrying out monitoring and testing of compliance with the Firms' policies and procedures; ensuring we keep those policies and procedures up to date and issuing a number of reports to the Leadership team.

Join our dynamic and tech-enabled compliance team, where innovation meets expertise in a supportive and collaborative environment. As a pivotal part of our firm, you will leverage technologies to navigate the complexities of regulatory landscapes effectively. Our team culture emphasizes mutual support and continuous professional development, ensuring you have ample opportunities for coaching and advancement.

Responsibilities include supporting the Compliance team where you will have the opportunity to drive process change and transformation.

Responsibilities include:

• Contribute to the review and updating of Policies
• Support the Compliance Team in reviewing and updating the firm's Policies and Procedures.
• Reporting to Leadership and the Network
• Gather information to support, prepare and undertake reporting and data management, including monitoring and analysis of key metrics and dashboards.
• This includes the preparation of information for inclusion in the monthly compliance reports to our Risk & Quality Committee.
• Prepare information for annual reporting to the PwC Network.
• Compliance Analytics
• Sustain the execution of our compliance monitoring activities in accordance with the Compliance Monitoring Plan.
• Assist with maintaining Compliance Registers and Records (e.g. Breaches log; Regulatory Updates log; Regulatory Correspondence logs).
• Assist with the regular updates to the firm's Business Risk Assessments.
• Client Acceptance
• AML/CFT/CPF and Sanctions Advisory
• Assist with workflow management for the review of PEP, Sanctions, and Adverse News escalations.
• Gather information for the AML SME team to consider in its review of these escalations.
• Suspicious Activity Reporting
• Assist the MLROs and their deputies in maintaining and updating the firm's SAR Register.
• Support the MLROs and their deputies with SAR Acknowledgements and Reporting.
• Learn and apply activities set by the MLROs and their deputies to support with the investigation and submission of SARs.
• Internal compliance - ethics and independence
• Independence and Ethics
• Support the team with the launch and review of annual staff compliance confirmations.
• Gather information on relation to scheduled independence compliance monitoring activities (e.g. Checkpoint Portfolio Reviews, Compliance Training).
• Assist with workflow management for the review of Independence Consultations, drafting responses and supporting with timely resolution of open cases.
• Compliance Projects
• Support the Compliance and Independence Team with completing projects; e.g. new processes and technologies; and/or policy updates.
• Support the team in managing the status of Compliance Projects.
• Compliance Training & Coaching
• Support the Compliance and Independence teams with the roll-out of training and communications programmes.

Direct Reports: This role reports to:

• Compliance Senior Support Roles
• Compliance Manager
• Compliance Senior Manager

There are no direct reports into this role.

Qualifications & Certifications:

• None

Skills & Experience Required:

Essential skills:

• Good written and spoken communication skills and strong interpersonal skills for engagement with relevant stakeholders
• Attention to detail
• Methodical and organized
• A keen interest in technology
• You will have an interest in learning, development and upskilling
• You will be keen to bring your own experience and ideas to a project, not being afraid to show your unique perspective.
• You will be reliable and enthusiastic, someone who is able to strike the right balance between working on their own initiative and updating leadership when appropriate.

Desirable skills:

• Understanding of current legislation and regulations around sanctions / AML / CFT / CPF
• Experience in compliance monitoring, audit or internal audit environment
• Proficiency in relevant systems and technologies, understanding compliance software and tools that aid in monitoring, reporting, and managing compliance-related data.
• You may have experience using core tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI.
• You may have strong technology design skills.

Travel Requirements: This role may require you to travel between our Jersey and Guernsey offices from time to time (circa 6 - 8 times per annum).

The skills we look for in our people:

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviors that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviors make up our global leadership framework, The PwC Professional.

The PwC Professional focuses on five core attributes; whole leadership, business acumen, technical capabilities, global acumen and relationships. We use this framework to recruit, develop, and assess our people, at all grades and in all areas of our business, because we expect all of our people to be leaders.

Diversity:

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business.