Branch Manager

To champion a culture of compliance throughout the firm to ensure everyone complies with our external regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures. To raise awareness and provide an advisory role for regulatory aspects across the firm, ensuring best practice and compliance as required by the Estonian financial authorities. The Risk and Compliance Director you will be responsible for managing all aspects of risk to the organisation, its employees, clients, reputation, assets and interests of stakeholders. Specific risk areas include, corporate governance, information security, regulatory compliance, insurance and operational risk.

•  Design, implement and lead a global risk management strategy for the organisation
•  Establish and quantify the organisation's 'risk appetite' and ensure risk approach adheres
•  accordingly
•  Horizon scan to increase awareness of risks affecting the business
•  Ensure compliance with regulatory obligations whilst taking a commercial and practicalapproach to risk-based challenges and offer appropriate solutions
•  Continual drive for enhanced efficiency and client service (internal and external) in all Riskand Compliance processes
•  Develop, lead and motivate the Risk and Compliance team (to be build) to maximiseeffectiveness
•  Ensure senior management remain informed of regulatory, legislative and best practicechanges and their obligations under these changes and how they impact the Group
•  Provide regular reports to boards and other relevant bodies detailing any current issues orinformation as required
•  Corporate governance involving external risk reporting to stakeholders
•  Lead the client on-boarding team driving efficiency in all processes to most effectively adhereto our risk appetite
•  Manage and coordinate the In-house Counsel team (to be build)
•  Manage insurance purchase, operation, reporting and notifications
•  Conduct internal audits, including liaison with external auditors
•  Providing support, education and training to staff to build risk awareness within theorganisation.
•  Provision of proactive and practical regulatory advice to business managers and supportfunctions
•  Manage the successful delivery of compliance projects ensuring technical excellence and apractical/business driven approach.
•  Work closely with key stakeholders to understand the business requirement for projects,develop effective working relationships during project implementation and ensure businessas usual ownership is understood by management
•  Proactively identify opportunities for product and service enhancements

•  Knowledge and experience commensurate with this role and having dealt with regulatoryenvironment both onshore and offshore covering all service lines offerings
•  Must be able to demonstrate a broad technical knowledge and expertise covering conduct ofbusiness matters, corporate governance matters and regulatory risk and regulatory changematters
•  Practical and commercial approach to problem solving
•  Experience of influence behaviours at all levels of the organisation
•  Proven track record of delivering enhancements to process efficiency
•  Experience of leading and motivating a multi-jurisdictional, multi specialism team (to bebuild)
•  Ability to produce and present effective presentations and training sessions.