Group Head of Compliance

Verisure is seeking a talented, innovative, passionate Group Head of Compliance to join our Headquarter organization. The Group Head of Compliance will report to the Group Chief Legal Officer and will be responsible for leading the Group Compliance Program and related initiatives. The role will manage two direct reports based in Geneva and have a unique opportunity to shape the compliance culture and function within the fast-growing Company.

The role will work closely with the business leaders, including the Senior Management Team, leaders in the Markets and functional heads across the group to strengthen a high impact, industry leading compliance culture and embed world-class compliance practices across the organization.

The role is ideally based in Geneva, Switzerland, but could be based in one of our head offices in Malmö (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Brussels (Belgium), Chatenay-Malabry (France) or Brentford (UK)

Team

Strong, Impactful and Business-focused

Our combined legal, compliance and regulatory advocacy team consists of over 45 lawyers and other professionals across the organization that come from 15 countries, with a strong gender balance across all levels of the team, including in the group legal management team. We are well-integrated, working closely together across countries and the organization to leverage each other’s experience, to develop best practice tools and templates, and to deliver our business colleagues seamless, best-in-class legal partnership.

Our vision is to be business enablers and our vision is to deliver value through innovative and leading-edge legal thinking, impactful regulatory advocacy, and leadership in building trust with customers and key stakeholders for sustainable business growth.As mentioned above, trust is essential for our business and the Group Head of Compliance will provide leadership in reinforcing this trust.

We are proud to present several recent achievements. These include strongly growing the worldwide team over the past period, with 10 new lawyers and two professionals over the past year, , evolving the Head Office Legal team to even better meet business needs; plugging into key business processes to ensure closer partnering; launching a new regulatory advocacy program, developing and launching a growing set of foundational policies in partnership with HR; and supporting on key transactions and other business projects for successful execution.

In recognition of these achievements, our team has been recognized as one of the leading in-house legal functions in the GC Powerlist Switzerland 2019. For over 30 years, The Legal 500 has been analysing the capabilities of law firms across the world. For its 2019 Powerlist, it turned its attention to in-house legal functions which are driving the legal business forward. And the Verisure team now takes its place on the 2019 Powerlist alongside legal teams from companies like eBay, P&G, Ralph Lauren and the Swatch Group. This is just a beginning. Join us to become one of us – business enablers and essential contributors to sustainable business growth.

Key Responsibilities

The Head of Compliance, in partnership with the CLO, will lead compliance strategy and efforts across the organization and ensure that he or she consistently provides a best-in-class and impactful compliance program. In order to accomplish this, he/she will be responsible for the following:

• Developing, throughout the organization, a culture of compliance, including personal accountability for compliance at all levels of the organization.
• Defining a compliance strategy, effectively developing and managing a compliance program, including governance, culture, process, reporting and monitoring.
• Working with our country management teams to ensure all areas of risk are properly mitigated in each country and territory and the allocation of resources appropriately matches the level of risk.
• In collaboration with the CLO, providing business judgment on all compliance matters affecting the organization, serving as a trusted advisor and counsel to the Senior Management Team and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.
• Developing appropriate training on compliance, organizational standards and risk topics, policies and/or procedures and rolling them out to managers and employees across the organization.
• Working with senior management and, as appropriate, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors to undertake:
  • Systematic assessment and management of compliance risk
  • Establishment/amendment of relevant written policies, procedures and standards of conduct
  • Internal auditing and monitoring
  • Review, amendment and management of communication and whistle-blower processes
  • Implementation/development of corrective action plans for resolution of problematic issues and provide proactive guidance on how to avoid or deal with similar situations in the future.
  
  
• Acting as the primary compliance contact point and internal expert with respect to compliance matters requiring external reporting to, or inquiries made by, regulatory and law enforcement agencies.
• Identifying, proposing and implementing appropriate technology and compliance assurance systems to facilitate compliance with current and future laws, rules and regulations internationally.
• Keeping abreast of all international and national compliance trends and developments in order to communicate potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk to appropriate departments as a means of on-going policy development and revision.
• Identifying, proposing, implementing and managing such other activities as may be required to maintain a world-class compliance program.

Candidate profile

Experiences and Qualifications

Experiences

We are looking for a high caliber individual, to become an integral member of our high performing Group Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Advocacy Team, with the ability to have a real impact in the business and the organization from the start.

The Group Head of Compliance will have demonstrable knowledge of advising across a range of compliance matters in an in-house environment within a multinational organization.

• Master’s degree with at least 10 years of professional experience.
• Proven track record of establishing a compliance culture within a multinational organization is highly desirable. The ideal candidate will have experience of driving major change across complex organizations.
• Experience of working with Senior Management, such as Board of Directors and/or an Audit Committee.
• Experience of leading a company’s compliance program on a global or regional level, including the code of business conduct and ethics, hotline and related internal investigations, and overseeing conflicts resolution.
• Demonstrated experience of critically analyzing relevant compliance standards, regulatory guidelines and requirements and identifying the potential impact on the business operations.
• A thorough knowledge and understanding of how to structure, develop, motivate and inspire an effective compliance extended team that is viewed as a genuine partner to the business.

Competencies

• Strong Fit with our DNA
• Collaborating and Influencing
  • Invites and uses the opinions and perspectives of others.
  • Engages people in a dialogue to gain commitment and bring them "on board", linking their perspective to the intent.
  • Adapts own approach to the audience, anticipating impact of words and actions, preparing for possible resistance and responding in an appropriate style, using a range of influencing styles.
  
  

• Business Mindset
  • Contributes to business mindset, needs, and thinking of own function or other functions.
  • Educates other functionally focused employees on business concerns.
  • Responds to business leaders when asked and adds value in business terms.
  
  

• Problem solving mindset
• Strong solution focus, comfortable working in an environment which demands high caliber deliverables under tight deadlines.
• Independ problem solver that can set priorities, make high quality judgements, lead team to setup decision points in a structured way, and enable efficient decision making.
• Analytical pragmatic, independent and creative thinker balanced with operational “doer’.

Other personal characteristics

• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, at all levels of the organization.
• Unquestioned ethics and integrity.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail.
• High energy and drive, passionate about his/her work.
• Self-starter and proactive in approach. Takes ownership and follows matters through.
• Mature individual with good judgment and with an ego that is well in check.
• Well-organized planner.
• Outstanding written and oral skills.
• Excellent listener.