As our Compliance Officer, you will be a member of a fantastic global team of 10 Compliance Officers, and report to the Chief Compliance Officer.
- Do you want to use your competencies in an international environment?
- Do you enjoy combining independent monitoring with being pro-active and giving advice?
- Do you like working in a high pace environment with great opportunities to influence the Compliance area of a Bank?
Then we are looking for you!
You will be part of Ikano Bank, where we create possibilities for a better living by providing banking and financial services. We do it with different perspectives, natural curiosity and long-term focus. A unique chance for greater responsibility and future opportunities. Let’s achieve great things together.
Help us simplify finance for the many people
The 2nd line Compliance Function is a vital independent function. The function’s role is to, with a risk-based approach, identify compliance gaps, recommend actions and support the Bank by giving advice and support. Play an active role in the maintenance and continuous improvement of the Bank’s compliance framework.
You will be based in Sweden, but your work arena will be all Ikano Bank’s branches, from your location preferably in Malmö.
Main tasks as Compliance Officer:
- Identify, analyze and interpret and produce documentation on new external regulations that are relevant for the Bank’s licensed operation.
- Independently assess compliance risks and thus contributing to the Compliance Function's overall risk assessment.
- Perform monitoring and controls to secure the Bank’s adherence to external regulations. Examples of areas are Consumer Finance related regulations such as payment regulations, complaints, License Management, authority reporting, Customer protection and financial innovation regulations.
- Produce reports based on the monitoring and control including recommendations based on the observations.
- Provide advice, support and training on external requirements applicable to the Bank's licensed operations and ensure that governing documents within relevant areas are kept up to date.
- Inform and train co-workers on new or changed external requirements and relevant internal regulations
- Represent the Compliance Function on relevant meetings and committees.
- Regular written reporting to relevant stakeholders, including input to CEO and Board reporting.
- Represent the Compliance Function on relevant meetings and committees.
- Actively support the business in their work with compliance risk management and promote a strong Compliance culture
- We are looking for a Compliance officer with a broad banking knowledge of regulations connected to our licensed operation. The areas AML and GDPR are already well covered in our team by your future colleagues.
We offer you
Operating at the center of events, you will have a very hands-on and active role, and create a great foundation for further development. You will get the chance to push boundaries and influence your daily work. It is essential that you enjoy working within a broad range of Compliance areas and countries and that you have a pro-active and “can-do”-approach, whilst maintaining an independent position. All as part of a caring and open culture where we live our values, work hard, have fun and operate with a long-term perspective.
Are you the one for Ikano?
- You have a law degree (LL.M.) or equivalent
- At least 5 years of relevant work experience from the financial sector within the Compliance area.
- You have proven experience in interpreting external regulations applicable to a Swedish Bank.
- You have the ability to produce professional written Compliance reports.
- You are fluent in English and either Swedish, Danish or Norwegian.
- You have an excellent ability to communicate and interact with people at all levels in the organization.
- You have high integrity and are familiar with the 2nd line requirements.
- You like to work independently, and you are proactive with an attitude to inspire and motivate people. It is essential that you are flexible end enjoy shifting between countries / areas / tasks.
Join us now – together we will find a better way
We will evaluate candidates and hold interviews on a continuous basis, last date to apply is September 21st.
About Ikano Bank (publ.)
Ikano Bank creates possibilities for better living by offering simple, fair, and affordable services, enabling a healthy economy for the many people and businesses. Its offer includes savings and loan products for consumers, sales support services for retailers, and leasing and factoring solutions for businesses. Ikano Bank operates in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK, Poland, Germany and Austria, and is a part of Ingka Group. Ikano Bank’s head office is located in Malmö, Sweden and the company is registered in Älmhult, Sweden where the business was once founded.
