Head of Investment Compliance recruitment

Prestigious investment management house seeks a highly experienced UK Investment Compliance Manager to take up a newly created London based role to manage their asset management regulatory requirements, portfolio monitoring, trading and capital markets oversight in the UK.

This will include a continuous review of policies, procedures and systems to ensure compliance and minimise risk, lead and drive training and development initiatives and projects across internal and external business areas.

This is a senior and high profile position that requires strong communication, relationship management and influencing skills as the role will involve managing relationships with local regulators, external counsel, as appropriate and interacting at the most senior of management levels across the globe to address general and specific compliance matters relating to the UK compliance program. There will also be extensive interaction with Portfolio Management, Trading, Legal etc to continually enhance the effectiveness and robustness of compliance strategy.

The role offers a high level of autonomy and ownership and opportunity to build out a compliance team and infrastructure to accommodate planned growth in the London office. It is therefore an excellent opportunity for an experienced Compliance professional, ideally with management experience, and demonstrating potential to assume yet higher office and responsibility in a progressive and successful environment.

Successful applicants must have strong compliance experience preferably from a recognised and well regarded asset management house, strong understanding of UK/FSA regulatory requirements together with previous coverage of portfolio management and trading activities and front office investment operations.