Senior Compliance Specialist

Senior Compliance Specialist

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

We actively uphold transparent and fair hiring practices that support individual opportunity, inclusive culture, and career mobility across all levels of our organisation.

We offer meaningful opportunities for growth, a culture of inclusion, and a strong commitment to transparency and integrity in everything we do.

In this role the Senior Compliance Specialist will support the organisation's regulatory compliance framework, ensuring adherence to applicable laws, regulations, industry standards, and internal policies. The role involves monitoring regulatory developments, conducting compliance reviews and risk assessments, advising business stakeholders on compliance obligations, investigating potential breaches, and assisting with regulatory reporting and audits. In addition, the role will support the Investor AML team covering the accountabilities as outlined below.

Key accountabilities:

• Supervises a team of administrators who are responsible for providing AML and KYC reviews of investors subscribing to Funds we provide administration services to.
• Serves as trusted advisor to clients by continually assessing changing business and strategies, as well as providing expertise, tools and information to focus on growing investments.
• Acts as the escalation point for all clients assigned to the team and directs issue resolution and process changes to support client needs.
• Proactively identifies risk-related issues through review of qualitative and quantitative data, anticipates obstacles and then implements mitigating solutions.
• Manages the onboarding of new clients including the onboarding of investors for fund conversions for Clients converting in from other administrators
• Manages and completes Business Line testing for the onboarding of new KYC systems to validate required AML requirements have been incorporated correctly
• Monitors investor KYC remediation and periodic reviews
• Quality check MLRO / Board Reports

Skills & experience required:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related field, or equivalent experience
• Five or more years of experience in alternative investments industry
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven team-oriented, leadership and organizational skills
• Prior experience on Fenergo and Mantra systems is a plus

Additional information

• The role offers a hybrid / flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.
• This role is a 12-month fixed-term contract. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Accessibility

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need adjustments at any stage of the application or hiring process, please contact your recruiter for guidance and support.

Total Rewards

U.S. Bank is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation practices in line with local regulatory and legal requirements. Our total rewards approach is designed to attract, retain, and support top talent while ensuring equal pay for work of equal value.

We offer a market-competitive compensation package that includes:

• Clearly defined salary ranges aligned with industry benchmarks and internal equity standards.
• Performance-based incentives for eligible employees (as defined by relevant plan rules), awarded through transparent, objective criteria that recognize both individual and company performance.
• Inclusive equitable benefits that are accessible to all employees and focused around our 3 main pillars of financial wellbeing, health & wellness).
• Continuous development opportunities including training, education support, and career progression pathways based on inclusive and transparent criteria.
• Employee recognition programs that celebrate achievements and milestones for all.

We regularly review our compensation and benefits to ensure they remain competitive, inclusive, and responsive to employee needs and market trends. Further details of the compensation package will be provided upon application.

We encourage candidates to explore the full value of our offer, including monetary and non-monetary benefits, at Employee benefits and development | U.S. Bank | Elavon.

Closing Date

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

We aim to provide timely updates throughout the process and encourage early applications to ensure consideration.