Compliance Associate - Hedge Fund

Compliance Associate – Equity Long/Short Hedge Fund (London)

Permanent Full-Time role

Salary: £80-100k (dependent on experience) + bonus + excellent benefits

Our client, a multibillion Equity Long/Short Hedge Fund, part of a $75bn group, is currently seeking a dynamic Compliance Associate to join its growing Compliance Team in London.

This individual will be the third member of the UK Compliance Team and will provide general support in a variety of areas. They will report directly to the UK Chief Compliance Officer.

Responsibilities & Goals

• Provide general support to the compliance team in a broad range of areas, growing as the Firm develops.
• Responsibility for employee onboarding and compliance matters including the management of compliance certifications, personal account dealing requests and holdings disclosures, and gifts/entertainment requests and disclosures.
• Assisting with numerous daily compliance processes – including providing redundancy on certain key tasks such as short/long position disclosures and transaction reporting.
• Administration of the Firm’s training program, including the maintenance of relevant training logs.
• Supporting the Firm’s compliance framework for research consumption.
• Processing KYC requests from brokers and other service providers.
• Assisting the Firm with its general recordkeeping obligations.
• Monitoring of domestic and international policy and regulatory developments.
• Involvement in firm's compliance projects globally, including implementation of regulatory changes and ongoing improvement of compliance systems.

Education & Experience

• 3 years’+ experience of compliance or financial regulatory matters at an asset manager, bank, law firm, regulator, consultant, or other relevant institution.
• Bachelor’s degree, 2:1 or higher. Law, economics or a finance-based subject is preferable, but not essential.

Required Skills/Characteristics

• Self-starter, with an emphasis on achieving goals and completing tasks to a very high standard.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and to take ownership of tasks within a collaborative team structure, including strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.