Trainee Compliance Administrator

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Compliance | Guernsey, Channel Islands | Full Time

Suntera Global is a leading international provider of fund, corporate and private wealth services, with over 45 years of experience and 550+ specialists supporting a diverse range of industries worldwide, empowering responsible ambition through professional delivery of governance, administration and accounting services, all while focusing on strong relationships and continually evolving to provide the best possible service to clients.

To ensure Suntera attains competent standards of regulatory and other compliance practices by providing practical, efficient and commercially balanced compliance solutions.
The purpose of the role is to assist the Compliance team with the development and management of the Compliance function. In particular to ensure that the Compliance and Countering Financial Crime (“CFC”) frameworks are maintained and developed to meet the needs of Suntera and to ensure that such frameworks are properly understood by everyone within the business.
Responsibility for assisting with the completion of all operational compliance activities and to work in a number of areas including conducting compliance monitoring, assessments, reports and undertaking ad-hoc work and projects.

Your duties will include:

• Help develop and promote a strong and properly functional Compliance culture within Suntera
• Assist with the completion and maintenance of the Compliance Monitoring Programme and reporting any deficiencies
• Log and keep up to date all relevant registers, including but not limited to, risk, breaches, complaints, PII notifications, errors, PEPs and introduced business registers
• Assist with the review of CDD and new business packs, as well as dealing with ad hoc CDD queries that arise
• Assist with the collation and presentation of information for management reporting
• Investigate and report on any adverse information regarding the client, potential client or related parties found via the internet, Risk Screen, automated screening or via other means
• Assist with the completion of regulatory returns and information requests from all third parties such as service providers and regulatory/law enforcement bodies and ensure these are completed in an accurate and timely manner
• Work with the Compliance team to ensure that Suntera’s policies, procedures and controls are properly embedded, effective and robust, in order to support the immediate and future business plans and adhere to regulatory requirements
• Review and close off the daily Risk Screen hits
• Escalate any issues, risks or concerns to the Compliance Manager as appropriate in a timely manner, whilst helping development & implement solutions
• Assist with the provision of staff training
• Any other ad-hoc tasks and responsibilities as assigned to you by your Manager

"I started at Suntera Private Wealth (Guernsey) Limited as a Trust Officer in July 2016, and I was promoted to a Senior Trust Officer within a couple of years. I have also tried my hand at being an Assistant Trust Manager, however, I decided that role was not for me. Suntera were fully supportive of my decision not to continue down the management path.

Although I have not taken any exams whilst working at Suntera, Suntera has been fully supportive of my colleagues who have taken professional exams. Should I wish to take any further professional exams, I know that Suntera will fully support me.
Suntera has some fantastic social events, such as summer parties and Christmas parties. In addition to these events,…