EMEAA Compliance Assistant Manager

Role Charter: Assistant Manager – EMEAA Compliance

Coordinate and support the management of legal entity compliance processes across EMEAA, ensuring governance arrangements are implemented around key compliance activities including accounting, taxation, statutory filing requirements and directorships for EMEAA entities and branches. The role works closely with CoSec, Tax, GFR, regional finance teams and compliance service providers to coordinate BAU compliance activities, legal entity management projects, reporting, issue escalation and process improvement.

Key Accountabilities

• Coordinate and support the management of compliance requirements across EMEAA legal entities and branches.

• Support governance arrangements across key compliance processes, including accounting, taxation, statutory filing requirements and directorships, in collaboration with CoSec, Tax, GFR and compliance service providers.

• Support and coordinate EMEAA legal entity management projects and BAU compliance activities.

• Monitor compliance activities to help ensure EMEAA legal entities and branches remain compliant with local regulations and adopt new or amended regulatory requirements.

• Maintain databases for EMEAA entities, including regional masterfiles, SharePoint sites, internal SOPs/process notes and the regional compliance calendar.

• Coordinate with regional CoSec teams to ensure Diligent contains the latest available information for EMEAA entities.

• Support tracking of agreed compliance fees and comparison of budget versus actual spend.

• Maintain and track third-party compliance engagement letters.

• Coordinate compliance filings for each entity in collaboration with CoSec, Tax and GFR, supporting timely completion of filings.

• Support management and stakeholders with changes and initiatives impacting business units, including changes of director, bank mandate signatories, HR and CoSec health checks, AI initiatives and other compliance-related activities.

Key Metrics

• Implementation and management of EMEAA compliance databases and SharePoint sites.

• Timely submission of key legal entity compliance filings across responsible territories.

• Quarterly reporting of compliance filings and open issues.

• Dashboard reporting of entity eliminations.

• Annual identification of continuous improvement opportunities.

• Execution of routine compliance tasks using internal AI-enabled efficiency solutions, where appropriate.

Required Education, Experience, Technical Skills and Knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience. 

Essential Skills & Experience

• 6–8+ years of experience in accounting and finance.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to liaise with multiple internal and external stakeholders across different locations.

• Ability to influence and collaborate with colleagues who do not report directly into the role.

• Strong analytical capability and attention to detail.

• Proven accounting skills and core awareness of finance, treasury, statutory filing and tax requirements.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office products.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Continuous improvement mindset.

• Project management and coordination skills, including the ability to organise, plan and execute small to mid-scale projects.

• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of PeopleSoft or other E.R.P. systems.

Organisational Parameters

• Direct Supervisor: EMEAA Compliance Senior Manager.

• Direct Reports: None.

• Indirect Reports: None.