At a glance

Compliance aims to protect the bank, its clients and its employees against compliance risks. This entails the risk of failure to comply with laws, regulations and self-regulatory standards, code of conduct or generally accepted market standards; the risk of financial and reputational damage arising from (financial) crime and misconduct and/or illegal behaviour of clients, the bank and/or her employees. Effective management of compliance risks is an interplay between culture, compliance program pillars and Compliance Function.
As a Compliance Officer, part of the Methodology & Oversight team, you will play a key role in making the Compliance Function grow towards the next maturity level. Together with subject matter experts and the management of Compliance you ensure that the fulfilment of Compliance Function responsibilities meet regulatory requirements, market standards and Compliance’s target operating model ambitions.

Working environment

Compliance is a global integrated function and maintains oversight of all countries in which ABN AMRO operates, including all subsidiaries (national and international).
The Compliance Function is build up around Business Compliance Officers (BCO) teams, Risk Theme Expertise centres (RTE”s) and the Compliance Operating Office (COO). The COO enforces universal, coherent global standards and processes for all distinguished building blocks of the Compliance Programme (such as policies, advisory, monitoring, reporting and annual planning, quality assurance), and has centralised global oversight on consistent, high quality execution thereof.

The Methodology & Oversight team is part of the COO and the deliverables of the Methodology & Oversight are concentrated around five main topics:
1. Compliance Policy Framework
2. Compliance Risk Change
3. Compliance Function
4. Compliance methodology (including SIRA and monitoring)
5. Fulfilling the role of an expert within the compliance risk theme Organisational & Employee Integrity (Conflicts of interest, Anti-competition and Licensing & registration)
For this position the focus will be on tasks in relation to the Compliance Function (implementation of the Compliance Risk Policy and the Policy on Policy framework) and Compliance Methodology (SIRA). You will work closely with colleagues inside and outside the team to implement the aforementioned policies within the compliance function. For the tasks in relation to the SIRA you will work closely together with three other colleagues within the team and of course engage with a large number of stakeholders inside and outside Compliance.

Your job

Your job
To be successful in this position you have experience with policy development; implementation- and change projects. You have a solid background in compliance (or risk management) and are able to work in a changing and sometimes challenging environment. Further you need to understand how you can support your colleagues and have the style flexibility to combine persuasive skills with a collaborative mindset. You will focus on:

Pro-active advice and engage with stakeholders to maintain oversight in the implementation of the Compliance Risk Policy and support in solutions to report on the progress and to validate the quality of the deliverables via the compliance maturity methodology.
Guide and provide ongoing support to successfully implement the of Policy on Policy Framework to keep the Compliance Policies up to standard. To enable this you advice, guide and work closely together with our stakeholders to identify training and program needs and build solid relationships for engagement.
Execute maturity assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of Compliance and in particular whether samples of the compliance activities are performed in line with the Compliance Risk Policy, other compliance policies/standards or the Compliance Charter
Contributing and actively delivering on the change the team is making in relation to the SIRA process. Moving from a project set up to an environment where the instruments and deliverables are integrated in our way of working.

Your profile

As Compliance Officer, part of the Methodology & Oversight team, you are at the centre of ensuring effective compliance. This requires that you:

are a hands-on type of person with a can do mentality
bring broad knowledge of industry good practices; financial service regulation and how to address in a pragmatic and efficient way of controlling.
have banking business experience, preferably worked in 1LoD before and are driven by a result oriented way of working.
have an extensive social network. Within that network, you present yourself and the bank as valuable business partners. You demonstrate that you take well-founded decisions, set priorities, and select achievable objectives. You motivate others and pass on knowledge.
have a Master’s degree and at least 7 years relevant work experience, with a minimum of 5 years within a financial institution and/or supervisory authority.
are an energetic, curious, constructive critical and enthusiastic person with an open mind set. You are a real relationship manager and have extensive experience and pleasure in stakeholder management at all levels.
Dutch is required for this position.

We are offering

The gross monthly salary displayed above is based on a 36-hour work week, including vacation pay and benefit budget.
The Benefit Budget is 11% of your salary. The Benefit Budget allows you to acquire additional employment benefits. If you make no purchases or reservations in the Benefit Shop in a given month, you are paid one twelfth of your Benefit Budget that month.
Five weeks of vacation per year. You have the option to purchase an additional four weeks per year.
Personal development Budget of € 1,000 per year, which you can accumulate up to € 3,000.
Possibility to work from home (in consultation with your team and depending on your position).
An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands.
An excellent pension scheme.

Interested?

Are you interested? Then respond to this vacancy now. When you want more information on the content of the role, please contact Yvonne de Wilde, Head of Methodology & Oversight (Yvonne.de.wilde@nl.abnamro.com). For any questions about the application process, you can contact Hilbert van Alphen, Talent Acquisition Specialist.

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

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