Senior Compliance Counsel

WHAT MAKES US, US

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At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

As a global company with an organization spanning multiple countries, and customers in the financial sector, compliance is essential to all the work we do at SimCorp. SimCorp has been undergoing a process to further mature our Compliance Framework, which brings more complex tasks across topics such as Employee Compliance, Data Protection, AI and Criminal Offence  

As our new Senior Compliance Counsel, you will be working in Warsaw as part of our global Group Compliance team. The Compliance team focuses on developing and maintaining a robust framework for regulatory compliance and helping the organization stay compliant with applicable laws and regulations. The team is responsible for providing 2nd Line Compliance support, training and awareness and advice on a broad range of compliance topics.  

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

As our new Senior Compliance Counsel, you will work closely together with the existing global Group Compliance team to develop and oversee our Compliance Framework. You will collaborate with 1st LoD, cross-functional teams and provide guidance to employees at all levels to help the organization stay compliant.  

This role also offers a great opportunity to help shape your own role based on your experience and interests within compliance areas. 

Other responsibilities will include: 

• Assisting with risk assessments to identify market abuse compliance risks across various business functions and regulatory areas 
• Develop and maintain our Custody Account monitoring,  
• Developing internal training programs, including both e-learning and face-to-face training on Market Abuse and Insider trading.  
• Collaborate closely together with internal stakeholders to shape our compliance framework, and Market Abuse Framework. 
• Maintain policies, guidelines and procedures, and ensure consistent application of those policies across the organization, also setting up controls and monitoring effectiveness.  
• Participate in activities to regularly monitor compliance activities and mitigating measures across the organization, and assess their effectiveness 
• Support on Internal audits, client requests and vendor due diligence questionnaires.  

WHAT WE VALUE  

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.

• Have a degree in law or commercial law  
• Have 2-3 years of experience with Market Abuse Regulations, Insider Trading, or equivalent compliance topics – and are curious to learn about those topics, you might be less familiar with.  
• Have good analytical skills with attention to details 
• Have clear English communication skills, both verbally and in writing
• Have a good understanding of compliance issues and risks, and can balance the need for sound business advice with the need for maintaining a high standard of advice  
• To perform well in this role, you should have good interpersonal skills and a sense of humor

BENEFITS  

• Flexible working hours and hybrid model - 2 days in the office, 3 days remote

• Modern office (next to Wilanowska metro station) with quiet zones and ergonomic workstations

• Base salary with annual bonus structure 

• Holiday allowance upon a 2-week vacation

• Occasional remote work across Poland and international options available (up to 24 days domestic, 20 days international per year - subject to internal policy)

• Employer-paid Medicover healthcare package (employee-paid family upgrade available)

• Multisport card with 75% employer contribution

• Unum group life insurance (employee-paid upgrade available)

• Medicover travel insurance for private trips and global business travel insurance

• Possibility to join Deutsche Börse Group Share Plan (eligible after 1 year)

• Copyrights program for certain roles 

• Possibility to develop your career in an international environment

• Professional training and courses provided by SimCorp

• Polish language classes for foreign employees; German and English classes based on business needs

• Integration events, volunteering initiatives and employee-led clubs

Compensation ranges are being disclosed at the initial stage of candidate engagement.

Visit our career pages to learn more about working at SimCorp: www.simcorp.com/career  

NEXT STEPS

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Oleksandra Nelipa, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, at [email protected]. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated. 

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