Your Legal & Compliance are looking for an ambitious and outgoing professional, who sees the role of Compliance holistically. This means collaborating and thinking with the business to help them understand legal requirements and/or risks, translating them into business requirements, manage controls, and serve as an enabler in sound decision making in the organization. This role will also require you to manage the relationship with our Regulators and external stakeholders, including serving as a point of contact, liaison, and representing the company in meeting.

Your responsibilities

Manage, Coordinate and Develop

The role holder is responsible for setting priorities in regards to daily activities in a self-driven manner. This includes but is not limited to:

Providing business departments with advice on compliance topics
Coordination internally and externally to manage, test and explain controls and their results
Working with the business to ensure colleagues understand and comply with the requirements of internal policies and relevant laws/regulations.

Risk Management

The role holder is predominantly performing high-complexity tasks in high-materiality/ high-risk-exposure policies. This includes but is not limited to

Apply and adhere to the internal guidelines and policies for (operational) risk management, conduct and compliance
Identify, assess, manage, monitor and report about risks
Apply and adhere to the Compliance Framework and Compliance Risk Assessment Framework
Maintain and execute the local Compliance Plan and monitoring plan and enhance the compliance process
Identify legal and regulatory developments and inform internal stakeholders
Translate the internal policies and Dutch law and regulations into local processes and procedures
Provide advice on potential regulatory risks to new product initiatives, projects and changes
Raise internal awareness on regulatory risks and develop and provide relevant trainings
Establish and maintain the relationship with the Dutch Banking Association (NVB)

Group Policies

The role holder is responsible for the implementation of a number of high-materiality/ high-risk-exposure policies and the performance of allocated controls, which includes:

independent in his/ her thinking as to how regulatory and policy requirements shall be implemented
performing of gap analyses against local legislation; and
initiation of a waiver/ exception process as and when required.

Project / Change Management

It is required that the role holder may:

regularly pick up responsibilities from a change perspective to lead projects independently
act as a representative for the Legal & Compliance department in cross functional projects
maintain and develop relationships with other financial institutions/regulators or 3rd party suppliers.

Stakeholder Management

It is expected that the role holder can:

independently communicate with colleagues up to ‘’Head of’’ level and above, with a solution-oriented mindset aimed at problem solving
Any communication will be done in (fluent) English.
It is also expected that the role holder has a background in managing the relationship with Dutch regulators, namely the AFM and DNB.
It is also desired that the role holder has ECB experience in this capacity. This would include managing communications, reporting obligations and meetings with the regulators.

Your team

The Legal & Compliance Team is a diverse and growing team of around 14 professionals split between the Netherlands and Germany, including multiple nationalities and backgrounds. We enjoy collaborating and challenging our counterparts within the team and Lloyds GmbH on a broad range of topics.

About Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank GmbH is part of Lloyds Banking Group, a financial institution with a large clientele in the UK and globally. Our over 500 colleagues split between our offices in Berlin and Amsterdam form Lloyds Bank GmbH, Lloyds Banking Group’s EU headquarters..

We aim to lead by example in the bold decisions we make as a business, from where and how we invest, to the products and services we offer, and of course the workplace we create. We will search for new ways to work with people, communities and businesses, to always evolve with their needs. And we will never stop innovating to make sustainable, ethical choices easy and rewarding.

At Lloyds Bank GmbH we play an important part in peoples’ lives, by the products we offer, and also how we operate. We finance your mortgage, keep your savings secure and also provide you with a personal loan if you need this. In Amsterdam we do this with an enthusiastic team of approximately 220 colleagues from different nationalities, and with an engagement score of 93%, colleagues find us a real ‘Great Place to Work’!

With our grand ambitions, we are looking for new colleagues who will bring fresh ideas to help us grow!

You and your experience

Qualifications

A University Master’s degree in law, economics or equivalent
Risk Management or Certified Compliance Officer qualification or equivalent is preferred

Experience & Knowledge

3+ years relevant experience in a risk or compliance function
Knowledge of Dutch financial services related law and regulations
Background in banking, specifically in mortgages
Experienced in communication with AFM, DNB and ECB

Skills & Capabilities

Good analytical skills with the ability to translate theory into practice, develop operational policies and procedures and ensure that these are understood and implemented
Good communication skills, both verbal and in writing (Dutch and English), and ability to demonstrate these skills effectively across all levels of the organisation
Good networking and influencing skills
Proactive and hands-on, with the ability to get things done under pressure
Self-motivated, autonomous and decisive

Good planning and prioritisation skills

Self-aware, keen on improving and change-oriented
Visible and available to the organization, including a minimum of 1 day a week in the office

What's in it for you?

On top of being part of a great group of colleagues we offer you a position for 32 to 40 hours a week. This

aligns with a compensation package in line with the market and excellent secondary employee benefits,

including:

13th month salary, either paid monthly or once a year in December
30 days PTO (or 240 hours) per year (based on fulltime employment)
You can ‘Swap Days’ to exchange Dutch National Holidays for another day of your choosing
Non-contributory pension scheme
You can join our collective medical scheme with a discount
To support our Green goals, we encourage you to purchase a bike via our bike plan
We want you to be healthy, so support you in joining a gym of your choosing through our sponsored (bedrijfs-) Fitness
Get to know everyone in person and join the quarterly Connection Events

We also value your work-life balance, so offer;

Flexible working; you can schedule your work hours to meet your personal needs
Hybrid working; you can work from anywhere, even work from another country within the EU
And provide you with a home office set up