Compliance Associate

at  CBRE

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

• Be part of an international team – our team in Luxembourg has more than 30 nationalities
• Permanent contract
• Competitive salary and bonus
• Employee benefits (lunch vouchers, complementary health insurance and pension scheme, Sympass card)
• 30 days of holiday
• Career opportunities and growth
• Hybrid way of working
  This position is available immediately. This is a unique opportunity to boost your career within the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm.
  If your experience matches to the job description above, our People team will be happy to contact you.
  The personal information you provide in your job application will be treated confidentially at all times and will be processed in accordance with the applicable data protection law, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
  In compliance with the law of 23rd July 2016, the selected candidate will be requested to provide a criminal record (section 3).

WHAT ARE THE MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES?

Governance

• Supports the implementation of policies, manuals and procedures on a local level, ensures high quality while mitigating risks to clients, their investors and the Company itself as a regulated specialized Professional of the Financial Sector supervised by the CSSF.
• Effectively supports the business and responsible local in managing compliance risks, as well as any related issues and incidents.
• Support the Deputy MLRO in their role, preparing investigations, reports.

Teamwork:

• Influence and motivate the Luxembourg business, ensuring required levels of competence are achieved and built upon.
• Builds up a strong professional relationship within the local organization.
• Strong communicator – ability to explain complex compliance matters to the local Company’s teams.

Major challenges:

• Raise Compliance Culture across the organization.
• Support the compliance function in implementing the annual compliance plan.
• Strengthen the role of Compliance in the second line of Defense.
• Monitor first line implementation of compliance standards.
• Maintain relevant Compliance registers, logs and communication channels.
• Identify and suggest any potential improvement in the first line and second line of defense working methods by researching current practice and development projects.
• Ensure a robust control environment is managed to maintain an on-going adherence to compliance with regulatory standards.
• Provide operational support and refresher training on compliance related subjects and processes and required.
• Assist the Compliance Senior Manager in the mandatory regulatory reporting.
• Perform other related Compliance duties as assigned or requested by his /her direct superior.

Role context

• The nature of the role requires close working contact with all business areas and not limited to other key functions.
• The jobholder has to possess knowledge on fund investments, banking regulations and operations, control concepts and governance principles in order to develop a set of effective standard guidelines that can be implemented.
• The Compliance function has significantly increased over recent years and has the potential to be an influential value-added service available to senior management.
• Jobholder’s ability in identifying major Compliance risks areas and weaknesses poses significant impact on business in meeting their strategic objectives.

The Compliance Associate plays a fundamental role in enabling the Compliance Function to develop and maintain:

• effective and efficient second line controls,
• robust internal and external reporting capabilities, and
• updating and creating procedures, manuals and guidelines as necessary