Senior Compliance Officer

Overview

The Senior Compliance Officer oversees broader planning for the investment company (open-end mutual funds, closed-end mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, interval funds) compliance program to help ensure that the organization and the Funds' operations and functions are in compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and policies and to prevent illegal, unethical, or improper business practices within the organization. Working as a subject matter expert under limited supervision, this job manages large projects and processes to help monitor Fund compliance and to identify, investigate, and report compliance risks.

The job involves significant reporting to the Fund Board and oversees and provides recommendations for Fund-related policy and procedure revisions.

• Prepares quarterly communications to the Fund Board about overall Fund compliance and operational integrity.

• Oversees extensive aspects of the Funds Compliance effort.

• Drafts reports to the Fund Board and/or Nuveen management on the results of compliance initiatives and participates in the discussion of those results with those audiences.

• Manages compliance risk assessments to identify Fund compliance issues, concerns, and deficiencies.

• Conducts complex investigations in response to complaints and/or potential violations of rules, regulations, policies and procedures.

• Manages organization and implementation of compliance audits.

• Oversees development and implementation of corrective action plans to resolve problematic compliance issues, ensuring that compliance deficiencies are corrected and providing guidance to management and the Fund Board on how to avoid or handle similar situations in the future.

• Reviews and approves reports on the results of compliance, ethics and operations initiatives of the Funds and their service providers and communicates key takeaways from reports to management.

• Develops and implements preventative measures and compliance processes, identifies opportunities to improve the communication, monitoring, and/or enforcement of the Funds Compliance program, and recommends relevant revisions of policies and procedures to improve the general operation of the Funds Compliance program to Nuveen management and the Fund Board.

• Develops and implements new compliance processes relating to new types of Fund products that have been or are being developed, e.g., semi-transparent active ETFs and interval funds.

• Reviews incident reports, complaints and compliance risk assessments, and interviews business unit leaders, to identify Fund-related compliance issues, concerns, and deficiencies.

• University (Degree) Preferred

• 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred

• Physical Requirements:
  
  Sedentary Work

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• 5 years of Mutual Fund Compliance experience required

• 7 years of Mutual Fund Compliance experience
• University degree in Finance, Business or other business-related field.
• Overall understanding of mutual funds (open-end, closed-end, and interval), types of mutual funds (Equity, Municipal Fixed Income, Public Real Assets, Public Real Estate, Taxable Fixed Income), and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
• Extensive knowledge of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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Benefits and Total Rewards

The organization is committed to making financial well-being possible for its clients, and is equally committed to the well-being of our associates. That’s why we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to make a positive difference in the lives of our associates and their loved ones. Our benefits include a superior retirement program and highly competitive health, wellness and work life offerings that can help you achieve and maintain your best possible physical, emotional and financial well-being.

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