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As the world works and lives faster, FIS is leading the way. Our fintech solutions touch nearly every market, company and person on the planet. Our teams are inclusive and diverse. Our colleagues work together and celebrate together. If you want to advance the world of fintech, we’d like to ask you: Are you FIS?

About the role:
We are looking for the right candidate to join our Global Regulatory Compliance (GRC) team to focus on coverage of our non-regulated Trading & Asset Services solutions in our Capital Markets business segment. This is an exciting opportunity to join the FIS GRC Capital Markets team to work on a broad range of global regulatory matters across the business. The role requires an experienced Regulatory Compliance professional with a solid understanding of the securities industry, buy-side and sell-side. The role will report to the Senior Director, GRC – Capital Markets. 

About the team:
The FIS Global Regulatory Compliance Team is part of FIS’ Legal, Compliance and Corporate Affairs (LCCA) organization. Comprised of compliance professionals with global regulatory experience, we partner with the business to support responsible growth and work collaboratively with each other and with our business colleagues to solve problems in an effective and pragmatic manner. This role will have specific compliance oversight responsibility for the Trading and Asset Services business units in Capital Markets.

What you will be doing:

• Maintains knowledge of applicable laws and regulations.

 Monitors and communicates regulatory changes that impact FIS products, services and business activities.• Establishes operational objectives and work plans.• Develops, modifies and executes company policies that affect immediate operations.• Oversees development and implementation of compliance program policies, playbooks and standards as well as addressing other required regulatory policies.• Responds to issues and matters pertaining to regulatory compliance of FIS products, services and business activities.• Performs periodic reviews, compliance risk assessments and evaluations of FIS products, services and business activities to validate compliance with applicable laws and regulations or detect regulatory violations, weak controls or other potential areas of exposure.• Assists in providing final disposition of any discrepancies regarding compliance issues.• Ensures strategic objectives of the Compliance & Ethics Program are met, including execution of risk assessment activities, coordination of risk response and program testing and validation.• Identifies key business processes, performs evaluations of risk, assesses the effectiveness of controls and promotes improvement across the organization through the deployment of risk response activities.• Designs and deploys processes to validate FIS products, services and business activities meet all applicable regulatory requirements.• Participates in corporate development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs and people.• Creates and delivers training to other business areas to increase compliance awareness.• Develops and motivates staff.• Ensures budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.• Offers guidance on implementing regulatory changes.• Communicates detailed requirements to line of business, validate solution approach and monitor status.• Provides compliance reviews and direction for new and expanding products and services.• Conducts compliance assessments and provides direction on any deficiencies detected by those assessments.• Meets with business unit Compliance Officers on a regular basis for status updates on compliance issues.• Monitors line of business compliance activities to verify that regulatory compliance deadlines and requirements are met.• Participates in training promoting compliance awareness.• Identifies areas of potential improvement.• Provides updates for periodic reports.• Interfaces with legal counsel and federal, state, and local agencies, as needed to address regulatory or compliance issues, concerns or questions.• Assists the business with responses to customer compliance-specific questions and concerns.• Participates with and/or leads customer focus and advisory groups.• Prepares and approves internal and customer compliance communications covering compliance issues and regulatory developments (compliance summaries, white papers, monthly reports, etc.) 

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

• You will be a compliance professional with 5-7 years of management experience in the capital markets industry.

• Broad-based, knowledge of global securities industry regulations and a demonstrated track record of advising on complex multi-faceted regulatory issues.

• Strong communication, research, writing, and analytical skills, including drafting of compliance summaries and White Papers.

•Skilled in prioritizing and managing multiple projects efficiently and driving complex projects to completion.

• A team player who recognizes the importance of partnership and collaboration to achieve common goals.

Added bonus if you have:

• Solid trading operations and asset management experience.

• Strong understanding of securities regulations and regulatory authorities worldwide

• Hold/previously held FINRA Series 7, 63 and 24 licenses

What we offer you:
At FIS, you can learn, grow and make an impact in your career. Our benefits include:

• Flexible and creative work environment 
• Diverse and collaborative atmosphere
• Professional and personal development resources 
• Opportunities to volunteer and support charities 
• Competitive salary and benefits

Privacy Statement

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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