Compliance Assurance Expert

Job title:

Compliance Assurance Expert

Company:

AXA

Job description

The Compliance Assurance Expert is responsible for ensuring that the organization adheres to all relevant laws, regulations, and internal policies. This role involves conducting compliance audits, developing risk management strategies, and providing training to staff on compliance matters. The Compliance Assurance Expert reports to the Compliance Assurance Manager which is managing a team based in Paris and Spain, supporting AXA GO on Compliance matters from financial crime to geopolitical compliance needs, local third-party compliance, Intragroup Contracts and International regulatory matters. The activities cover both the prevention and the remediation, and act as a strategic Business Partner vis-à-vis AXA GO team as well as the other AXA operational entities fronted.As Compliance Assurance Expert, your main objective and purpose is to:

• Protect AXA GO and its top management against sanctions or fines by addressing compliance and data privacy risks identification against both international and local regulations. Implement adequate assessment of the impacts across AXA GO’s divisions, monitoring, and remediation design / implementation.
• Raise attention on compliance risks and control and help decision making by incorporating innovative problem-solving skills.

Main missionsThe Compliance Assurance Expert will personally be involved in cases covering matters in compliance assurance and will notably be responsible for:Compliance Control Framework

• Contribute to the various compliance, data privacy and AI risk assessments across AXA GO and its subsidiaries based in Europe, Asia and Americas. Ensure adequate reporting to the Senior Management and to the AXA Group Compliance and Data Privacy functions, follow up and control along the year any relevant variation on the risk. Guarantee escalation to Senior Management on a timely manner when deemed necessary.
• Contribute to the Compliance Assurance plan with the aim to control the alignment of the Compliance activities (implementation requirements, policies and procedures, trainings and awareness, etc.) with AXA Group Standards and external regulations.
• Ensure strong alignment in terms of practices, control frameworks and control review with other GO control functions (e.g. Risk Management, Internal Control, Internal Audit) but also other support functions where there is a strong need for coordination on recurrent activities such as the Third-Party Risk Management process (Vendor Risk Committee, Third Party Audits) with Procurement teams or the ISO certification process with Information Security team.
• Provide both guidance and regulatory direction to develop new processes or controls. Foster transformation, innovation in the compliance landscape, implementation of best practices, identify areas of improvement and simplification.

Regulatory transformation

• Lead projects with the objective to accompany the Compliance & DP department in its transformation journey with regards to the need to comply with new regulations but also to improve technical capabilities (e.g. more automation, AI use cases, etc.).
• Report and escalate any relevant change in regulations subject to generate additional risks or needs inside AXA GO’s environment.
• Drive the change by leading transformation projects for the benefit of the Compliance & Data Privacy team and the other AXA GO teams.

Global governance

• Collaborate closely with the other teams reporting to the Compliance & Data Privacy department.
• Coordinate transversal initiatives/projects and work cross-functionally with the different teams reporting to the General Secretary & Risk Division (Risk Management, Internal Control, Legal, etc.) as well as other GO Divisions (HR, Finance) and Group Corporate Functions hosted within AXA GO (IT, Procurement, etc.). Those initiatives would benefit to AXA GO but also to other AXA operating entities that AXA GO is serving.
• Pilot and coordinate strategic Compliance & DP deliverables to be reported to GO Senior Management (Vendor Risk Committee, Risk & Compliance Committee, Executive Committee, Board of Directors) and/or to AXA Group functions and/or strategic committees. Ensure consistency between the different deliverables.
• Prepare, collect, analyze and synthesize relevant inputs/pre-reading information for the Head of Compliance & Data Privacy Officer prior operational meetings or strategic committees.

Monitoring awareness

• Maintain an updated knowledge of AXA GO teams and Senior Management about local and global regulatory updates and trends.
• Contribute to the overall monitoring of the Compliance & Data Privacy training plan and ensure that all employees and teams exposed the specific compliance risks (HR, Proc., Executive Members, etc.) are sufficiently trained in alignment with Group standards and external regulations requirements.
• With the support of the other teams reporting to the Compliance and Data Privacy teams, continuously monitor changes in regulations and industry standards. Evaluate how these changes affect AXA GO and its operations and inform relevant stakeholders about their implications. Conduct training session and control a posteriori to identify potential areas of non-compliance and implement corrective actions.

QualificationsExperience

• 7+ years’ solid experience in Compliance, Risk Management and/or Internal Control in technology, insurance and/ or regulated sectors both in-house or from consultancy firm(s), preferably international entities
• Operational knowledge on one or several of the following areas: General compliance, Financial Crime, International Sanctions, Risk Management, Data Privacy or Internal Control
• Language skills: full professional proficiency in English
• Notions of the insurance or health sectors are a plus

Technical skills

• Proven experience in Compliance, Risk Management or Internal Control practices
• Demonstrated success working in a high-performing, business results-driven environment
• Critical thinking skills and experience assessing risks, measuring impacts, and building mitigation solutions with partners
• Persuade and influence using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others
• Strong European compliance and technological regulatory knowledge.
• Ability to design and direct operational implementation across AXA GO’s departments
• Fast build a thorough knowledge of the company and its processes
• Strong compliance / risk analytical skills, business mindset with a risk orientation. Use of the appropriate criteria to regularly evaluate company processes and compliance risk, challenge of the status-quo and ineffective processes and promote constructive alternatives
• Ability to effectively communicate with and convince management, win the trust the different actors in the organization while challenging and fostering change
• Ability to build strong working relationships across a broad and varied mix of people and skills in IT and across business organizations

Soft skills

• Excellent communication skills at all levels, including the capacity to explain concisely complex legal topics in simple operational ways to non-compliance collaborators
• Strong work ethic, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with cross-functional teams, international and collegial corporate culture
• Self-motivated, creative, and autonomous
• Positive mindset, collaborative work style and team-building orientation

Expected salary

Location

Paris

Job date

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 23:25:36 GMT

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