Job Description

LOCATION: Cape Town, Hybrid Work Environment.

R HIGHLY NEGOTIABLE PLUS ANNUAL PERFORMANCE BONUS

Our client is a leading blended finance fund manager dedicated to securing a sustainable future by investing across global emerging markets. The company has a long-term vision to structure cutting edge financing facilities around thematic areas of climate change mitigation and adaptation, including renewable energy, water and oceans, sustainable land use, and sustainable cities. The Head office of the business is in Europe with offices in Cape Town, Singapore and Bogota.

This company use blended finance structuring to attract public and private capital to invest in high-impact sectors in emerging economies. They believe in a world where sustainable investing and profitability are not mutually exclusive. They provide financing solutions for infrastructure developers in the renewable energy, water sanitation and ocean sectors, and our fund structures provide investments across the entire project lifecycle (development, construction and operational stages). Their long-term vision is to raise, deploy and manage funds for climate change mitigation and adaptation that will play a transformative role in their target sectors.

They now seek a head of risk, governance and compliance to join their team. You will report to the audit risk committee and the other company boards. Direct reporting to the CEO.

JOB DESCRIPTION WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

• You will be responsible for ensuring ongoing compliance with laws, regulations and industry standards, including monitoring, reviewing and implementing new regulation, legislation (in all regions the company group operates xe2x80x93 currently Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore and Colombia) and industry best practices so as to ensure the group fulfils its statutory, regulatory and contractual obligations;
• You will be required to manage the company's risk framework and particularly the KYC process to ensure the financial crime risk management policies and procedures identify and mitigate the risk of the company becoming directly or indirectly involved in money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions violations, tax avoidance and tax evasion (jointly referred to as tax integrity risks), corruption and bribery, fraud and financing/receiving financing from entities with a questionable reputation;
• You will be responsible for ensuring regulatory and legal compliance and in particular fund mandate compliance;
• Regulatory compliance:

• You will be required to keep up to date with new legal and regulation considerations, ensure key stakeholders are kept apprised of relevant regulations and / or increased regulatory risk and support implementation of processes to ensure ongoing compliance;
• You will be required to drive the regulatory compliance risk management framework;
• You will be required to provide day-to-day regulatory advice to rest of the company's team;
• You will be required to ensure compliance with AIFMD reporting / notifications including performing filings with the AFM and DNB and other regulatory authorities;
• Constituent document compliance:

• You will be required to maintain overview of requirements per contractual requirements of the group and funds to ensure mandate compliance with particular focus on investor side letter management;
• KYC management:

• You will be required to ensure adherence to the KYC process and update (a) controls to prevent financial economic crime and (b) processes to ensure the company has assessed the tax integrity of the parties and the associated transactions;
• You will be required to provide oversight and management of outsourced KYC screening service provider;
• Risk management:

• You will be required to maintain an effective risk management framework;
• You will be required to manage risk assessment process and review results of the assessment to determine any remediation of controls that is required and then ensures remediation completed;
• You will be required to ensure adequacy and completeness of the company's policy hierarchy to ensure legal and regulatory requirements met and mitigate risks inherent to each business process;
• You will be required to maintain and update the policy hierarchy that lists the order of precedence, with legal and regulatory requirements at the top policies, procedures, and practices to (1) respond to legal and regulatory changes and (2) ensure compliance with existing internal and industry standards;
• You will be required to ensure policy updates are made and approved as required and that they are supported by effectively designed and operational controls;
• You will be required to ensure there is appropriate training and communication to company staff to ensure they understand their responsibilities and obligations with respect to complying with company policies and processes;
• Company secretarial:

• You will be responsible for oversight of the company secretarial function;
• Governance:

• You will be responsible for the proper and effective functioning of each group and company funds governance board and their sub-committees and for ensuring legal and regulatory compliance and maintaining secure copies of constituent agreements for the company, for each company fund;
• You will be required to work closely with the local Dutch Legal Counsel in respect of new regulations and laws;
• You will be required to be key point of contact for the compliance team and internal audit team based on the scope approved by the audit risk committee.

CORE COMPETENCIES REQUIRED, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

• You have sound analytical skills;
• You have excellent communication (verbal and written) skills in English;
• You are able to easily interact with colleagues and external contacts;
• You are able to work as part of a wider team of geographically dispersed highly skilled professionals.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• You have a master's in financial law; ideally;
• You have substantive legal and operational experience in a broad spectrum of financial crime matters; and compliance and risk;
• You have a minimum of 10 years current, relevant experience in an international business environment, or global best practice work space, with a focus on risk and compliance;
• You have familiarity with AIFMD and Wwft;
• You have AML / KYC experience.

You are a hard working; smart professional with expert skills who would like to join a team committed to success and making the world a better place!

Claire Bourquin Recruitment Consultants