Thomson Reuters - Assistant Manager/Manager - Regulatory Mapping & Compliance - LLB

Regulatory Mapping and Compliance - AM / Manager

A Manager will be expected to:

- Be an experienced contributor responsible for working within the project scope and timelines.

- Understand US legal writing.

- Interpret statutes and regulations accurately, and satisfactorily answer the team's questions and doubts.

- Follow a step by step process of researching the issues and presenting the findings in the desired format.

- Interact with internal and external stakeholders.

- Understand overall client requirements to help develop project scope and drive internal discussions on resource requirements and creation of project plans.

- Manage large teams of people.

- Follow up with subordinates on the status of assignments.

- Resolve doubts of the team pertaining to work

- Ensure management of direct reportees.

- Ensure compliance with processes and controls of the team, drive the development of methods to improve processes and/or controls to ensure that these are efficient, effective and relevant.

- Be effective on the floor in terms of sharing learning/insights with peers/juniors/seniors.

- Resolve project specific issues effectively, and where necessary escalate the issues timely.

- Apply herself/himself to understanding the underlying issues of a project.

- Ensure process instructions are followed by the team consistently without failure.

- Ensure on time delivery on all client deliverables.

- Attend mandatory training and certification courses.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

Candidates applying for a Manager position must:

- Possess an excellent understanding of financial terms and concepts, coupled with in-depth knowledge of how the financial industry operates.

- Be capable of conducting research to understand the business of financial institutions and identify compliance areas applicable to these financial institutions.

- Have the ability to accurately interpret statutes and regulations and identify compliance obligations applicable to a financial institution.

- Have advanced research skills and know where to find the most up-to-date regulatory and statutory developments.

- Have excellent analytical skills.

- Be able to effectively communicate with the team.

- Be able to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders and build/maintain relationships.

- Ensure quality control processes are in place.

- Be able to resolve issues and escalate where necessary.

- Be able to cascade down all relevant information.

- Be responsible for ensuring project management and timely delivery of reports to the relevant stakeholders.

- Be responsible for quality checking and auditing the work done by subordinates.

- Be organized and efficient - capable of handling responsibility assigned to her/him quickly, efficiently, and accurately.

- Intelligently understands project metrics such as utilization, efficiency, gross margins etc.

- Be capable of working on multiple projects at a time and act as a project manager.

SKILLS:

- Project management and people management skills.

- Thorough and meticulous with great attention to details.

- Ability to accurately understand legal issues and identify applicable statutes and regulations.

- Excellent analytical and logical skills.

- Excellent reading and writing skills.

- Must have a working knowledge of legal databases.

- Proficiency in MS Excel and Word.

QUALIFICATION:

- Preferred law graduate.

EXPERIENCE:

- Working with financial industry or having in-depth knowledge of financial concepts.

- Extensive project management and people management experience.

- Substantial experience in interacting with clients.

- Conducting training.

- Performing quality checks and audits.

- Desirable: Experience in regulatory compliance related work; and/ or prior experience/knowledge how the financial industry operates especially. Knowledge/ experience of reviewing regulations like FINRA, SEC, FCA, APRA etc.

LOCATION:

Mumbai / Noida / Bangalore

REMUNERATION:

Commensurate with industry standards