Director – Global Head of Monitoring & Surveillance recruitment
Macquarie Group is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services.
Strong prudential management has been a key to Macquarie's success over many years. The Risk Management Group is an independent, centralised unit responsible for assessing and monitoring risks across the Macquarie Group. The Compliance Division within Macquarie's Risk Management Group provides compliance support and advice to Macquarie's operating businesses.
Macquarie are currently recruiting a Global Head of Monitoring Surveillance who would be responsible for setting global monitoring surveillance strategy including governance, technology strategy, policy and procedures, training strategy and assurance strategy and planning.
Those in a monitoring surveillance remit regionally report to the Regional Heads of Compliance and are responsible for providing input to global Monitoring Surveillance strategy and delivering the programme in their region. Regional employees are currently part of a global virtual monitoring surveillance team, responsible for ensuring delivery of the monitoring surveillance strategy. The Regional Heads of Compliance will work in partnership with the Global Head of Monitoring Surveillance to ensure that global monitoring surveillance strategy is adequately resourced and implemented in each region.
Key responsibilities will include:
Joint project owner for the Global Compliance Monitoring and Trade Surveillance Project - this project has been identified by the CEC as a top priority project on the current programme of projects owned by the CEC. The Head of Monitoring and Surveillance would be joint project owner working with relevant Compliance Executive Committee project owners.
The project would include identifying any regulatory gaps across the teams globally; and assess opportunities for enhancement and centralisation as well as possible automation of steps where this is both efficient and effective.
Key deliverables for the project will include an inventory of current state; an agreed structure for the monitoring and surveillance function within Compliance and an implementation plan.
Qualifications and Experience
- Director level role
- Degree qualified to tertiary level
- Extensive experience in building and maintaining monitoring and surveillance programmes within the banking and financial services industry
- Extensive experience in the system support, including SMARTS Broker or similar system functionality for monitoring and surveillance programmes within the banking and financial services industry
- A strong understanding of the role of Compliance within the banking and financial services industry
- Project management and change management experience
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to develop relationships across various stakeholders, including the CEC, Compliance staff across the regions, RMG Central, ITG
- Self directed, with the ability to proactively identify and analyse problems, and propose viable solutions
- Good organisation skills with the ability to work towards and meet deadlines
- Tenacity and flexibility, with experience of managing and prioritising a number of activities simultaneously
For further information, please contact Tom Spratt on (61 2) 8237 6366