What it’s about
In your role you will be responsible for supporting Partners Group’s Head of Compliance UK and the Global Co-Heads of Compliance in ensuring that Partners Group’s two FCA-licensed firms comply with their legal and regulatory obligations under the UK financial services regime. You will work as part of a team of three responsible for the UK as part of a global team of more than twenty people. The UK compliance function is responsible for all aspects of regulatory compliance on behalf of an alternative investment fund manager (“AIFM”) and a MiFID investment firm. This is a broad role in which you are expected to take ownership for your work. It consists of a mixture between providing regulatory advice, performing hands-on compliance tasks, dealing with policy matters and working on new regulatory implementation projects. Partners Group is a growing, dynamic fund management group, which translates into a challenging working environment with numerous opportunities to expand your domestic and international regulatory knowledge and experience.
Responsibilities
- Identifying, understanding and interpreting UK financial services legislation and regulation (with a particular focus on public markets regulatory topics)
- Advising the Head of Compliance UK and more senior team members on the firm’s obligations and how to meet those obligations
- Ensuring adherence to the firm’s obligations
- Drafting policies, reports and similar documents
- Carrying out trading monitoring, including best execution, allocation and market abuse monitoring
- Ensuring that regulatory reporting completed accurately and filed on time
- Ensuring that the UK compliance programme is compatible with the firm’s global compliance programme, aims and culture
- Assisting with the corporate administration and organisation of the firm’s UK entities
- Monitoring and responding to regulatory developments in the UK
- Ad-hoc support, whether on UK or international matters, as required by colleagues ranging from the Head of Compliance UK to the CEO
What we expect
- 3- 5 year of working as an experienced compliance officer within asset management
- Strong knowledge of the FCA rules and an understanding of MiFID and/or AIFMD is necessary
- Experience of public markets regulatory topics is essential (MIFIR and MAR) (e.g. trading & execution topics such as best execution and allocation, transaction reporting, market abuse)
- Experience in collaterised loan obligation products is a strong advantage
- Excellent analytical, interpersonal and project & task management skills to manage multiple projects at any one time
- Team player and collaborative approach is a must
- Self-motivated, proactive, intellectually curious individual with strong desire to learn and succeed
- A small amount of travel may be necessary but is not a core part of the role
