Head, Compliance at ARM Hold Co.

JOB SUMMARY

• Responsible for providing leadership as the Head of Compliance in ensuring compliance with regulatory and statutory compliance requirements across all scoped entities, as well as internal corporate governance guidelines and framework.
• Part of the objective is also to ensure standardization of practices and processes across all scoped entities.

JOB DESCRIPTION

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Team Leadership: Provide leadership, oversee, and coordinate all compliance activities across ARMIM, ARMS and ARMT, including ensuring the team is not only effective in supporting all scoped entities, but also result driven.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring compliance with all extant regulatory directives, rules, circulars, as well as legislations, applicable to business, including working with various teams where such compliance activities are to be carried out teams other than the Compliance team. 
• Regulatory Scanning: Scanning the regulatory and operating environment for new regulatory developments, newly exposed rules and draft laws that will be applicable to the business, to ensure proactive dissemination to Management and incorporation into the compliance programme.  
• Regulatory Liaison: Responding to correspondences and inquiries from regulatory authorities, and government agencies, as well as proactively liaising with them to resolve all Compliance-related issues and coordinating all regulatory supervisory examinations and review.  
• Rendition of Returns: Rendition of all periodic returns to SEC, NFIU and other applicable regulatory agencies.  
• Compliance Monitoring: Support the implementation, continuous improvement and monitoring of AML/CFT (Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism) programmes across the organizations, as well as compliance with all extant tax laws and statutory remittances.  
• Threat Assessment: Identify potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk, as well as drive development and implementation of corrective action plans for the resolution of problematic issues.  
• Regulatory Approvals and Clearances: Processing of all regulatory approvals and notifications for employees, directors, products and all other applicable initiatives, and including clearances from applicable government agencies. 
• Stakeholder Management: Proactively seek to build mutually beneficial and trusting relationships with both internal stakeholders (subsidiaries and shared service functions), and external stakeholders (i.e., regulators), with the aim of delivering operational impact. 

JOB EXPERIENCE

Competencies

• Analytical and Strategic Thinking
• Customer Service Orientation  
• Entrepreneurship
• Leading and Developing Others 
• Effective Communication
• Knowledge of Market and Regulatory Environment 

Qualification and Experience

• B.sc Degree from an accredited University (preferably in Finance or Law)
• Compliance Professional Certification as added advantage (CAMS, CCEP, DCP)
• Minimum of 7 years of prior work experience in Compliance role.