Description:
As Senior Compliance Specialist – Governance & Reporting, you’ll sit at the heart of how Compliance communicates risk, issues and priorities to Executive Management and the Board. You’ll help shape an evolving capability—strengthening ways of working, raising the quality of insight, ensuring a clear, consistent and coherent view of Compliance risks, issues and priorities.
Role purpose
This role is accountable for defining, leading and continuously improving Compliance governance, management information and reporting across Swift, while supporting oversight and delivery tracking for key regulatory change initiatives.
Reporting directly to the Chief Compliance Officer, the role ensures that Compliance communicates a clear, coherent and decision-focused view of risks, issues and priorities to Executive Management, the Management Board and the Supervisory Board.
The role leads a small team and sets the standards, operating model and expectations for governance and reporting across Compliance—ensuring consistency, quality and impact.
Key Responsibilities
Executive & Board Reporting
- Own the end‑to‑end Compliance reporting cycle for all stakeholders, including the Chief Compliance Officer, Executive Management, the Management Board, Board Committees and the Supervisory Board.
- Own the end-to-end narrative to Executive Management and the Board, ensuring materials are clear, focused on decision-making and reflect a consistent message.
- Partner directly with the CCO and senior stakeholders across Legal, Compliance, Risk and the business to shape messaging, align priorities and avoid conflicting messages across forums.
Compliance Committee
- Run the Compliance Committee end‑to‑end (agenda, submissions, minutes/actions, follow‑up), keeping the forum focused and effective.
- Ensure leaders receive clear, relevant and timely information—prioritised to support oversight and decisions.
- Keep strong governance discipline around escalation paths, decision records and action tracking—so nothing critical gets lost.
- Maintain the terms of reference for the Compliance Committee, including periodic reviews and updates.
Quality, Insight & Narrative
- Own the Compliance management information framework, including what is reported, why it matters and how it supports oversight and decision-making.
- Lead the collation and validation of data used to measure and monitor compliance, working with teams across the business to ensure reporting is timely, accurate and complete.
- Draw out key themes, emerging risks, issues and anomalies, applying judgment and challenge so that the right.matters are escalated at the right time.
- Set high standards for data quality, reporting discipline and insight—ensuring reporting supports informed discussion, challenge and decision-making, not just information sharing.
Capability Maturity
- Define and embed strong ways of working, standards and expectations for Compliance governance and reporting.
- Continuously improve the Compliance Committee and reporting approach as the function matures and expectations evolve.
- Document and maintain governance and reporting processes, procedures, templates and playbooks—making it easy for teams to follow a consistent, high‑quality approach.
- Assess and help shape the tools, processes and data capabilities needed to support effective compliance monitoring and reporting.