Compliance Manager - Institutional & Markets
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UK, Cyprus, Ireland, PortugalFull-TimeMiddle
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- Required Skills
- Product design
Requirements
- Solid working knowledge of Jersey financial services law: the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998, the Control of Borrowing (Jersey) Order, and the JFSC’s regulatory framework for investment business and virtual asset service providers.
- Familiarity with the JFSC’s approach to tokenised asset regulation, including how it interacts with the VASP registration regime and the wider virtual assets framework, or a demonstrated ability to get up to speed quickly on an evolving regulatory landscape.
- Experience running or contributing to a compliance programme in a regulated financial services business, ideally with institutional or wholesale markets exposure.
- Comfort with multi-jurisdictional complexity: this role spans regulatory frameworks and you'll need to hold the full picture without losing precision on any individual regime.
- Ability to work with genuine ambiguity — products in this space are often ahead of the regulatory framework, and you'll need to make sound judgements without a ready-made playbook.
- Strong written communication: committee papers, regulatory correspondence, and policy documentation to a high standard.
- Self-directed, with clear escalation judgement — this is a lean team with high standards.
- Direct experience with tokenised securities, RWA issuance, or structured digital asset products.
- Prior experience engaging directly with the JFSC, including responding to supervisory requests, participating in regulatory consultations, or managing onsite reviews.
- Exposure to MiCA, UK MiFID, or other trading venue regulatory frameworks relevant to cross-border institutional business.
- Experience supporting multi-jurisdictional regulatory engagement or contributing to regulatory consultations.
Responsibilities
- Own the compliance programme for a defined cluster of regulated activities covering obligations under the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998 and the Control of Borrowing (Jersey) Order, alongside tokenised asset issuance.
- Work with Group Compliance to evolve the compliance framework supporting Payward’s tokenised asset and issuance activities, with a particular focus on institutional-grade structures and distribution models.
- Oversee and control all AML and compliance activities, including the development and deployment of policies and procedures, client onboarding and supervision, transaction monitoring, AML risk mitigation, adverse event reporting etc.
- Support onboarding and oversight of institutional distribution partners (e.g., exchanges, brokers, and platforms), ensuring that due diligence, KYC/AML expectations, and contractual frameworks are appropriately calibrated to the risk profile of large, regulated counterparties.
- Monitor regulatory developments in tokenised securities and real-world assets across relevant jurisdictions, with the JFSC as the primary supervisory relationship, alongside FCA and international equivalents.
- Advise on product design and structuring, drawing on experience from traditional financial instruments such as structured products, ETFs, ADRs, and other securitised exposures.
- Provide compliance input across the full product lifecycle—from structuring and issuance through secondary market trading and ongoing disclosures.
- Provide first-line compliance support to Payward's institutional and markets-facing teams: covering new products, business development activity, institutional counterparty due diligence, and financial promotions in a non-retail context.
- Prepare compliance MI and reporting for board committees and the Jersey Board, including any materials required by the JFSC.
- Maintain policies, procedures, and controls documentation across the institutional and markets perimeter, aligned to group-level frameworks.
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