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