Regulatory and Compliant Manager
About the role
Financial Services Advisory - Regulatory and Compliance Vacancy: Manager BDO has a vacancy for a Manager position in our Financial Services Advisory - Regulatory and Compliance Division (“Reg & Compliance”).
The primary goal of the Reg & Compliance Manager role is to:
- Manage the regulatory and compliance engagements for BDO clients.
- Write and publish financial regulatory thought leadership applicable to the South African market.
- Business development and thought leadership strategies for marketing and targeting potential and exiting financial regulatory clients.
- Provide support to the Financial Services practice by ensuring that all FS staff are trained and kept informed regarding legislation and regulation related to financial services, including latest developments in this field.
- Provide support and advice to audit and advisory teams (internally).
- Develop material, present training and provide regulatory advice to external clients.
- Liaise, communicate with and meet with senior executives at clients and regulators is an important requirement of the role.
- Set and manage budgets for client engagements to minimise overruns, negotiating maximum recoveries on assignments.
Principle Outcomes
- Leading and managing client engagements.
- Identifying and delivering on advisory opportunities, including the development of thought leadership material.
- Providing ongoing training relating to regulatory and compliance related matters to the Financial Services staff at all levels.
- Providing technical consultations internally and externally (to clients).
- Developing internal and external communications relating to current and impending regulatory developments.
- Developing business development strategies for targeting financial regulatory services and clients in the South African market.
We are looking for candidates who would be able to:
- Communicate with C-level executives of clients and executives at regulators.
- Represent BDO on regulatory bodies.
- Make decisions regarding acceptable regulatory treatment in straightforward and complex regulatory queries.
- Take ownership and accountability for client engagements.
- Lead and deliver advisory projects.
- Write and publish thought leadership applicable to the South African market.
- Develop business development and thought leadership strategies for marketing and targeting potential and exiting clients.
- Draft written technical advice / opinions in a clear, unambiguous manner.
- Develop and compile training material for review.
- Present training material both internally and externally.
- Research regulatory and compliance related queries / topics / new developments and communicate, both orally and in writing, the results of the research in a clear, unambiguous manner.
- Work in a team and collaborate with persons within and outside the team.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree
- Member of the Compliance Institute of South Africa
- At least 5 years’ experience in Compliance
Competencies
- Good communication skills
- Building trust and relationships
- Fostering collaborative teamwork
- Accessibility, persuading and influencing
- Proactive in all that we do
- Fostering active communication
- Continuously adding value
- Client focused
- Developing a commercial and innovative business plans
- Digital mind-set
- Aligning career aspirations with the strategies, goals and objectives of the team and firm
- Innovative and willing to share ideas for new ways of working
- Ability to work at all levels within an organisation
- Passion for mentoring and developing junior staff
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About BDO South Africa
Audit | Advisory | Tax The South African member firm of BDO International - The Leader for Exceptional Client Service since 1963
BDO clients experience a distinctive level of service, built on exceptional relationships and a deep understanding of their business. It is these relationships and in-depth understanding that enables us to serve our clients better, thereby meeting their immediate needs and long term ambitions.
We provide solutions that are practical and workable, and not overcomplicated by unnecessary process. Our client service teams comprise accounting and business advisers who not only understand the domestic market, but who also have access to a global network in 162 countries that can deliver a seamless and reliable level of service.
As a leading mid-size professional services firm in South Africa and part of the global BDO organisation - we are capable of competing with the larger firms but are still small enough to care. We are agile, innovative and dynamic, thereby allowing us to adapt to each client's particular needs because "what matters to you, matters to us".
There is a growing need for additional choice in the provision of professional services. BDO is the obvious alternative.
Regulatory and Compliant Manager
About the role
Financial Services Advisory - Regulatory and Compliance Vacancy: Manager BDO has a vacancy for a Manager position in our Financial Services Advisory - Regulatory and Compliance Division (“Reg & Compliance”).
The primary goal of the Reg & Compliance Manager role is to:
- Manage the regulatory and compliance engagements for BDO clients.
- Write and publish financial regulatory thought leadership applicable to the South African market.
- Business development and thought leadership strategies for marketing and targeting potential and exiting financial regulatory clients.
- Provide support to the Financial Services practice by ensuring that all FS staff are trained and kept informed regarding legislation and regulation related to financial services, including latest developments in this field.
- Provide support and advice to audit and advisory teams (internally).
- Develop material, present training and provide regulatory advice to external clients.
- Liaise, communicate with and meet with senior executives at clients and regulators is an important requirement of the role.
- Set and manage budgets for client engagements to minimise overruns, negotiating maximum recoveries on assignments.
Principle Outcomes
- Leading and managing client engagements.
- Identifying and delivering on advisory opportunities, including the development of thought leadership material.
- Providing ongoing training relating to regulatory and compliance related matters to the Financial Services staff at all levels.
- Providing technical consultations internally and externally (to clients).
- Developing internal and external communications relating to current and impending regulatory developments.
- Developing business development strategies for targeting financial regulatory services and clients in the South African market.
We are looking for candidates who would be able to:
- Communicate with C-level executives of clients and executives at regulators.
- Represent BDO on regulatory bodies.
- Make decisions regarding acceptable regulatory treatment in straightforward and complex regulatory queries.
- Take ownership and accountability for client engagements.
- Lead and deliver advisory projects.
- Write and publish thought leadership applicable to the South African market.
- Develop business development and thought leadership strategies for marketing and targeting potential and exiting clients.
- Draft written technical advice / opinions in a clear, unambiguous manner.
- Develop and compile training material for review.
- Present training material both internally and externally.
- Research regulatory and compliance related queries / topics / new developments and communicate, both orally and in writing, the results of the research in a clear, unambiguous manner.
- Work in a team and collaborate with persons within and outside the team.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree
- Member of the Compliance Institute of South Africa
- At least 5 years’ experience in Compliance
Competencies
- Good communication skills
- Building trust and relationships
- Fostering collaborative teamwork
- Accessibility, persuading and influencing
- Proactive in all that we do
- Fostering active communication
- Continuously adding value
- Client focused
- Developing a commercial and innovative business plans
- Digital mind-set
- Aligning career aspirations with the strategies, goals and objectives of the team and firm
- Innovative and willing to share ideas for new ways of working
- Ability to work at all levels within an organisation
- Passion for mentoring and developing junior staff
#NN
About BDO South Africa
Audit | Advisory | Tax The South African member firm of BDO International - The Leader for Exceptional Client Service since 1963
BDO clients experience a distinctive level of service, built on exceptional relationships and a deep understanding of their business. It is these relationships and in-depth understanding that enables us to serve our clients better, thereby meeting their immediate needs and long term ambitions.
We provide solutions that are practical and workable, and not overcomplicated by unnecessary process. Our client service teams comprise accounting and business advisers who not only understand the domestic market, but who also have access to a global network in 162 countries that can deliver a seamless and reliable level of service.
As a leading mid-size professional services firm in South Africa and part of the global BDO organisation - we are capable of competing with the larger firms but are still small enough to care. We are agile, innovative and dynamic, thereby allowing us to adapt to each client's particular needs because "what matters to you, matters to us".
There is a growing need for additional choice in the provision of professional services. BDO is the obvious alternative.