Senior Compliance Officer – Global Markets Advisory (m/f/d)

Senior Compliance Officer – Global Markets Advisory (m/f/d)

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Responsibilities

• Provide compliance advice to local Global Markets (MARK) activities across a wide range of asset classes, including equity, equity derivatives, structured products trading, engineering, and sales.
• Address regulatory compliance matters and risks across the entire organization.
• Actively contribute to the implementation, steering, and adaptation of the compliance risk culture and control framework in accordance with Société Générale Group requirements and relevant local regulations.
• Maintain relationships and open communication with business lines and other departments, providing support to address compliance requirements at the earliest opportunity.
• Provide compliance and regulatory advice to the Global Markets business line and other business units and support functions when needed.
• Maintain proactive dialogue with the respective Global Markets compliance officers in the head office to ensure appropriate engagement on issues impacting compliance beyond the local perimeter.
• Monitor applicable regulatory developments impacting the branch business and assess local implementation needs.
• Advise on compliance and regulatory aspects of new products.
• Adapt and deploy group policies, and define/update local compliance procedures.
• Contribute to the implementation of a monitoring, surveillance, and control framework to prevent and/or detect compliance and reputational risks.
• Contribute to identification and management of incidents.
• Support the Chief Compliance Officer in performing oversight and reporting requirements in accordance with local and central compliance governance.
• Perform and participate in SG compliance risk assessment and monitoring of related action plans under local Compliance responsibility.
• Develop and deliver appropriate regular general trainings (e.g. for new joiners in the Branch) and specific compliance class trainings.
• Maintain contact with regulators and market authorities, including participation in regulatory audits and reporting requirements to German authorities under supervision of the Chief Compliance Officer.
• Ensure timely and accurate responses to regulatory enquiries and internal control and audit teams and implement resulting actions under local compliance responsibility.
• Work in close cooperation with all local compliance team members and maintain an active engagement and liaison with other compliance teams.
• Support the Chief Compliance Officer in facilitating development of team staff.

Profile required

• Apprenticeship / university degree in banking activities with qualification in compliance related topics, and/or Legal qualification.
• At least 10 years of experience in a similar role in a Bank/Financial Institution.
• Experience in BaFin interactions is required.
• Sound knowledge and appreciation of legal, regulatory and industry requirements with deep knowledge and strong expertise of Global Market activities and respective regulations including transparency directive; MAD II/MAR; MIFID II/MIFIR and applicable German regulations.
• Fluency in German & English (written and oral) is required; French language skills would be an advantage.
• Capacity to analyze and summarize.
• Strong skills in working in a structured way.
• Strong ability to assess risks and procedures at all levels.
• Good MS Office skills (e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• Self‑motivated with strong work ethic and desire to deliver to high standards.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Ability to work with different business lines and locations.
• Independent and organized working style.
• Cooperation & team spirit.
• Ability to work autonomously under pressure.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are an equal opportunities employer and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and promoting all talents , regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.

Business insight: Société Générale is a leading European bank with over 119,000 employees serving around 26 million customers in 62 countries worldwide. For 160 years, SG Group has been supporting the development of the economy and offering companies, institutional investors and private clients a wide range of advisory and financial solutions with real added value for clients. Global Banking & Investor Solutions, a pre‑eminent wholesale bank, combines tailor‑made solutions with leadership in equity derivatives, structured finance and ESG.