Compliance Specialist – Governance & Reporting

Swift strives to operate in compliance with applicable laws and regulations and Swifts Compliance team has the mission to make that happen. Weve recently launched a major governance and regulatory change programmeso the team is growing and were looking for an experienced compliance professional who enjoys bringing structure clarity and momentum to complex topics.

As Compliance Specialist Governance & Reporting youll support the senior specialist and the wider Compliance team in how Compliance communicates risk issues and priorities to Executive Management and the Board. Youll contribute to an evolving capabilityhelping strengthen ways of working raising the quality of insight and ensuring a clear consistent and coherent view of Compliance risks issues and priorities.

This role supports the effective operation of Compliance governance and Compliance reporting at Swift.

You will support the Compliance Committee and help coordinate the quality and consistency of Compliance reporting across Swift for the Committee Executive Management Board Committees and the Supervisory Boardbringing together inputs into a single coherent view of key risks issues regulatory priorities and actions.

You will also provide support to the broader Compliance team as required including contributing to crossfunctional initiatives and adhoc priorities.

The capability is new and evolving with core structures already in place. The role focuses on strengthening discipline clarity and effectiveness and supporting the continued maturation of governance and reporting over time.

Compliance Committee

• Support the management of the Compliance Committee endtoend (agenda submissions minutes/actions followup) keeping the forum focused and effective.
• Ensure leaders receive clear relevant and timely informationprioritised to support oversight and decisions.
• Keep strong governance discipline around escalation paths decision records and action trackingso nothing critical gets lost.
• Support maintenance of the terms of reference for the Compliance Committee including periodic reviews and updates.

Executive & Board Reporting

• Support the endtoend Compliance reporting cycle for all stakeholders including the Chief Compliance Officer Executive Management the Management Board Board Committees and the Supervisory Board.
• Make reporting accurate consistent and easy to navigate with a joinedup narrative across forums.
• Coordinate across Legal Compliance Risk and the business to prevent duplication close gaps and avoid conflicting messages.

Quality Insight & Narrative

• Support Compliance teams to improve the quality and clarity of what is reported and raise queries where needed.
• Draw out key themes emerging risks and areas of concern ensuring they are appropriately highlighted.
• Ensure reporting supports informed discussion and decisionmaking not just information sharing.

Capability Maturity

• Support the definition and embedding of strong ways of working standards and expectations for Compliance governance and reporting.
• Contribute to improvements to the Compliance Committee and reporting approach as the function matures and expectations evolve.
• Help document and maintain governance and reporting processes procedures templates and playbooksmaking it easy for teams to follow a consistent highquality approach.
• Work closely with the CCO and senior Compliance leaders (and their teams) to align governance and reporting with Compliance strategy and priorities.

Leadership

• Support the Senior Specialist - Compliance Governance & Reporting role(s) by coordinating inputs maintaining highquality materials and helping ensure timeliness.
• Build effective working relationships with stakeholders across Compliance Risk and the wider organisationcommunicating clearly and confidently.

• 5 years experience in Compliance Risk governance or regulatory change within a regulated environment.
• Experience supporting Executive Committees and/or Boardlevel committees (e.g. preparing packs coordinating inputs and tracking actions) or similar senior governance forums preferred
• Experience designing maintaining and improving reporting (dashboards packs and MI) with strong attention to data accuracy data quality checks controls versioning and singlesourceoftruth principles or similar reporting and MI governance.
• Exceptional ability to distil complex information into clear decisionuseful insights and a coherent narrative.
• A builders mindset: you enjoy improving operating models setting standards and making governance/reporting work better for everyone.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and evolving expectationsable to bring order priorities and pace.
• Strong judgement and the ability to deliver at pace with appropriate guidance in a dynamic international environment.
• A passion for continuous improvement and a visible commitment to highquality delivery.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including confident stakeholder management and presentation.
• Professional proficiency in English.

What we offer

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals like you with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyones voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

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Dont meet every single requirement At Swift we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team so if you are excited about this role we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.