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Would you like to progress your career within Compliance, working on financial crime prevention with a specialist focus on financial crime policy and governance frameworks? Then join us on our journey towards becoming a better bank and help us enhance the financial crime prevention framework within Danske Bank.

“Governance is at the very heart of a bank’s Financial Crime Compliance strategy. “An effective governance framework that delivers first-class governing documents and coordinated governance processes and oversight is key to the effective management of financial crime risk” says your future manager, Gemma Louise Gyles.

Creating and maintaining governing documents and regulatory assessments 

In this role, you will support the operation and development of the Financial Crime Governance Framework within the Financial Crime Policy and Governance Team. You will support the team’s main responsibilities to manage and develop Danske Bank’s internal financial crime-related policy, instructions, and business procedures, and to develop and oversee centralised governance processes for Financial Crime Compliance.

You will also prepare regulatory risk and impact assessments to ensure that applicable regulation is mapped and adequately reflected in our processes, risk assessments, and internal governing documents. This is a collaborative role where you engage with our numerous stakeholders, both internal (group-wide and across the lines of defence) and external.

We are looking for a Financial Crime Compliance professional who is excited about creating and maintaining governing documents and regulatory assessments that are valued and actively utilised by risk management professionals across the organisation every day.

Depending on your experience, you may be offered a different seniority of the role.

Mission

• Support the continuous development cycle of financial crime governing documents across all financial crime risk disciplines, including providing feedback and guidance to stakeholders on policy and legal interpretation matters
• Support the operation of Financial Crime Compliance governance processes, including oversight and coordination of department-wide processes and initiatives
• Manage diverse stakeholder relationships
• Monitor the applicable regulatory requirements to identify changes to the regulatory environment
• Act as a representative of the Financial Crime Compliance function as required both internally (e.g., governance forums, project steering and working groups, audit interactions) and externally if required (e.g., industry forums, interactions with regulators)

Skills

• Minimum 3 years of experience within risk management, legal, compliance, audit, or similar functions, preferably within the financial services sector
• Knowledge of financial crime risk in AML/CTF, Fraud, Tax Evasion, or Sanctions risk
• University degree in Law, Business, Finance, Economics, or equivalent
• Understanding the regulatory environment applicable to financial crime in AML/CTF, Fraud, Tax Evasion, or Sanctions
• Proven experience drafting governance and complex documents
• Advanced English skills, both spoken and written
• Fluency in Swedish and/or Finnish, both spoken and written
• Extensive written and spoken communication skills, a solution-oriented approach, and the ability to summarise complex information for audiences in an accurate and balanced manner
• Experience with Sanctions Compliance is beneficial

We offer:

We will ensure that exact salary offered for you will be based on your qualifications, competencies, professional experience and requirements for the corresponding job function (salary range from 2400 EUR to 3600 EUR gross EUR/monthly).

Your title in job contract will be Officer - Compliance.