Compliance Manager

Legal & Compliance are looking for an ambitious and outgoing professional, who sees the role of Compliance holistically. This means collaborating and thinking with the business to help them understand legal requirements and/or risks, translating them into business requirements, manage controls, and serve as an enabler in sound decision making in the organization. This role will also require you to manage the relationship with our Regulators and external stakeholders, including serving as a point of contact, liaison, and representing the company in meetings.

Your responsibilities

Manage, Coordinate and Develop

As Compliance Manager you are responsible for setting priorities in regards to daily activities in a self-driven manner. This includes but is not limited to: 

• Providing business departments with advice on compliance topics
• Coordination internally and externally to manage, test and explain controls and their results
• Working with the business to ensure colleagues understand and comply with the requirements of internal policies and relevant laws/regulations.   

Risk Management

As Compliance Manager you are predominantly performing high-complexity tasks in high-materiality/ high-risk-exposure policies. This includes but is not limited to:

• Apply and adhere to the internal guidelines and policies for (operational) risk management, conduct and compliance
• Identify, assess, manage, monitor and report about risks
• Apply and adhere to the Compliance Framework and Compliance Risk Assessment Framework
• Maintain and execute the local Compliance Plan and monitoring plan and enhance the compliance process
• Identify legal and regulatory developments and inform internal stakeholders
• Translate the internal policies and Dutch law and regulations into local processes and procedures
• Provide advice on potential regulatory risks to new product initiatives, projects and changes
• Raise internal awareness on regulatory risks and develop and provide relevant trainings
• Establish and maintain the relationship with the Dutch Banking Association (NVB)

Group Policies
As Compliance Manager you are responsible for the implementation of a number of high-materiality/ high-risk-exposure policies and the performance of allocated controls, which includes:

• independent in his/ her thinking as to how regulatory and policy requirements shall be implemented
• performing of gap analyses against local legislation; and
• initiation of a waiver/ exception process as and when required.

Project / Change Management
It is required that our new Compliance Manager may:

• regularly pick up responsibilities from a change perspective to lead projects independently
• act as a representative for the Legal & Compliance department in cross functional projects
• maintain and develop relationships with other financial institutions/regulators or 3rd party suppliers.

Stakeholder Management
It is expected that our new Compliance Manager can:

• independently communicate with colleagues up to ‘’Head of’’ level and above, with a solution-oriented mindset aimed at problem solving
• Any communication will be done in (fluent) English.
• It is also expected that the role holder has a background in managing the relationship with Dutch regulators, namely the AFM and DNB.
• It is also desired that the role holder has ECB experience in this capacity. This would include managing communications, reporting obligations and meetings with the regulators.

Your team

The Legal & Compliance Team is a diverse and growing team of around 14 professionals split between the Netherlands and Germany, including multiple nationalities and backgrounds. We enjoy collaborating and challenging our counterparts within the team and Lloyds GmbH on a broad range of topics.

About Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank GmbH is part of Lloyds Banking Group, a financial institution with a large clientele in the UK and other parts of the world. Together with our office in Berlin, we form Lloyds Bank GmbH with its headquarters in Amsterdam and we have over 500 colleagues.

We aim to lead by example in the bold decisions we make as a business, from where and how we invest, to the products and services we offer, and of course the workplace we create. We will search for new ways to work with people, communities and businesses, to always evolve with their needs. And we will never stop innovating to make sustainable, ethical choices easy and rewarding.

At Lloyds Bank GmbH we play an important part in peoples’ lives, by the products we offer, and also how we operate. We finance your mortgage, keep your savings secure and also provide you with a personal loan if you need this. In Amsterdam we do this with an enthusiastic team of approximately 200 colleagues from different nationalities, and with an engagement score of 93%, colleagues find us a real ‘Great Place to Work’!

With our grand ambitions, we are looking for new colleagues who will bring fresh ideas to help us grow!

You and your experience

Experience and Knowledge

• 3+ years relevant experience in a risk or compliance function
• Knowledge of Dutch financial services related law and regulations
• Background in banking, specifically in mortgages
• Experienced in communication with AFM, DNB and ECB

Qualifications

• A University Master’s degree in law, economics or equivalent
• Risk Management or Certified Compliance Officer qualification or equivalent is preferred

Skills and Capabilities

• Good analytical skills with the ability to translate theory into practice, develop operational policies and procedures and ensure that these are understood and implemented
• Good communication skills, both verbal and in writing (Dutch and English), and ability to demonstrate these skills effectively across all levels of the organisation
• Good networking and influencing skills
• Proactive and hands-on, with the ability to get things done under pressure
• Self-motivated, autonomous and decisive

Good planning and prioritisation skills

• Self-aware, keen on improving and change-oriented
• Visible and available to the organization, including a minimum of 1 day a week in the office
  
  

What's in it for you? 

On top of being part of a great group of colleagues we offer you a position for 32 to 40 hours a week. This aligns with a compensation package in line with the market and excellent secondary employee benefits, including:

• A compensation package in line with the market with excellent secondary employee benefits
• 13th month salary, either paid monthly or once a year in December
• A position for 32 to 40 hours a week
• 30 days PTO (or 240 hours) per year (based on fulltime employment)
• You can ‘Swap Days’ to exchange Dutch National Holidays for another day of your choosing
• Non-contributory pension scheme
• You can join our collective medical scheme with a discount
• To support our Green goals, we encourage you to purchase a bike via our bike plan
• We want you to be healthy, so support you in joining a gym of your choosing through our sponsored (bedrijfs-) Fitness
• Get to know everyone in person and join the quarterly Connection Events

We also value your work-life balance, so offer;

• Flexible working; you can schedule your work hours to meet your personal needs
• Hybrid working; you can work from anywhere, even work from another country within the EU
• And provide you with a home office set up