Compliance Officer

About The Job

What You’ll Do:

• Administration of the Internal Documents Management Site, updating of site pages as necessary, publication of newly approved and effective documents, and ensuring proper site access restrictions are in place

• Reviews policies and manuals prior endorsement to the Chief Compliance Officer for final approval. Track the routing of documents to the Executive Committee level for notification, review, or approval.

• Ensure that document approval process is being followed and implemented; release internal communications/announcements (intranet announcement and/or email blast) related to internal documents to give guidance on matters such as cut-off for quarterly board approvals, new templates, new guidelines, etc.

• Prepare monthly reports on the status of compliance by business units on the maintenance of documents to be delivered to Internal Documents and for archiving.

• Provide guidance to the different business units on the localization/ updating of group policies and/ or local policies in relation with group and local regulatory requirements. Likewise review and provide recommendation on policies, manuals, and work place instructions drafting in relation to new or updated processes identified by the Compliance Testing and Internal Audit.

• Conduct periodic review and assessment of policies, manuals, guidelines and work instruction of business units including gap analysis performed and compliance checking of these documents for input to the relevant control functions such as Compliance Testing, Risk, and Internal Audit.

• Effectively communicate Group Policy and Local Policy updates/ revisions across all levels of the company by establishing and maintaining good working relationship within Senior Management, Executive Committee, Business Units Heads and colleagues.

• Conduct regular process training and facilitation of policy writing and learning sessions.

• Write/ update compliance and legal policies, charter, manuals and guidelines.

What You Need To Have:

• Has knowledge of the regulations issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) and other regulatory bodies.

• At least five (5) years of work experience in Compliance Department, ideally in Regulatory Compliance, in a bank or financial institution.

• Has experience in policy writing and review.