Senior Business Compliance Advisor

Are you the Compliance Officer we seek for our Wealth Management business? This is an exciting opportunity for someone to guide and improve our business by identifying areas for improvement and providing high-quality advice on a range of topics such as Duty of Care, privacy risks, and investment propositions. You will work alongside a team of experts in Compliance teams in NL and NW Europe, engaging in a range of projects and interacting with stakeholders in the 1st line in WM and related product engines. This role will provide you with the chance to work with senior Compliance officers and expand your knowledge and expertise on Duty of Care, Investments, Conduct, and other aspects of Compliance.

Compliance aims to protect the bank, its clients and its employees against compliance risks. Effective management of compliance risks is an interplay between culture, compliance program pillars and the Compliance Function. Your role is multidisciplinary: you are a professional who can efficiently respond to new challenges by combining multiple disciplines in your work and showing countervailing power. You will be encouraged to master the four different roles Compliance has: Advisor, Challenger, Monitor, and Gatekeeper. These roles combine a specific blend of hard and soft skills with the ability to inspire colleagues and take a strategic perspective.

More specifically this involves:

• Assisting in safeguarding the compliance risk appetite of the Client Unit Wealth Management (WM) in NL and NW Europe.
• Acting as general practitioner of the Compliance Function by having overall knowledge of compliancy, while knowing when to seek advice from other Compliance experts.
• Taking individual ad joint responsibility for specific tasks, such as privacy risk, advising on compliancy of marketing and communication texts, behavioural risks and advising on new products and services.
• Interacting with 1st line specialists in WM Products and WM Sales.
• Striking the right balance between the client’s interests, other stakeholders’ interests and the applicable legislation and regulations.
• Following relevant internal and external developments and translating these into expert advice.
• Communicating clearly and transparently, both orally and in writing.

You work in a dynamic team of ~20 Business Compliance Officers providing guidance and support to the Client Unit Wealth Management, both on Client integrity (AML) risk and on Investments & Integrity Risk. You will report to the Head WM. Due to the broad nature of your work there is every opportunity to follow a steep learning curve with respect to Compliance topics.

As Business Compliance Officer you represent Compliance towards business’ (senior) management. This requires that:

• You have at least 7 years of work experience.
• You have an academic work and thinking level, preferably in legal/business.
• You have experience in banking and investments and are able to operate in an international context.
• You have knowledge of or keen interest in regulatory requirements regarding the Compliance Function.
• You take responsibility for your work, have a ‘can-do’ attitude and act with integrity and foster strong ethical standards.
• You convey ideas and information effectively towards stakeholders.
• You are proficient in English and preferably also Dutch, both verbally and in writing.

• 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.

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.

External recruitment agencies need to have a signed agreement with ABN AMRO BANK N.V., executed by a Talent Acquisition Specialist, when submitting a resume to a vacancy. No unsolicited services or offers, please.