About the Role
This position is responsible for onboarding new accounts and products, overseeing amendments to existing accounts, and programming compliance monitoring systems. The role involves pre-trade, post-trade, and portfolio monitoring, alert investigation, reporting, and stakeholder notification. The analyst will consult with investment personnel and other parties, assess the impacts of regulatory changes, and manage assigned projects.
Responsibilities
- Support the implementation of client and regulatory investment restrictions by analyzing guideline requirements, assessing coding feasibility, and translating requirements into effective compliance monitoring rules
- Partner with internal stakeholders, including investment, legal, client service, and operations teams, to clarify guideline intent and ensure rule coding aligns with portfolio strategy and regulatory obligations
- Evaluate compliance system capabilities, data availability, and operational impacts to determine appropriate coding solutions
- Manage implementation pipelines, meet inception deadlines, and escalate risks, roadblocks, or ambiguities that could impact delivery or monitoring effectiveness
- Perform testing and validation of new or updated restrictions to ensure rules function as intended and support accurate monitoring
- Monitor pre-trade, post-trade, batch, and manual compliance controls to assess permissibility, identify potential issues, and support timely resolution
- Perform test trade reviews for deals, corporate actions, and in-kind transitions to validate compliance with account restrictions
- Escalate potential compliance violations, operational risks, or unresolved issues to management and participate in resolution efforts as needed
- Support the client reporting process by contributing to accurate compliance review and reporting activities
- Continuously seeks opportunities to enhance efficiency by identifying process improvement opportunities
- Works to reduce risk by looking for opportunities to make the compliance monitoring process more accurate, concise, and efficient
- Recommends and implements solutions to automate manual rules, integrate new compliance functionality and leverage data because of system upgrades
- Develops deep expertise in the Charles River system, or other investment compliance monitoring system(s), and proactively shares knowledge to significantly increase depth of knowledge within the Monitoring team
- Critically evaluates existing policies and procedures, and practices and proposes innovative solutions to enhance effectiveness and address emerging challenges
- Actively monitors compliance alerts to identify trends and areas for improvement in the rule library ensuring it remains relevant and effective
- Takes ownership of medium-sized projects of moderate complexity to achieve project goals and deliver impactful outcomes
- Evaluates the implications of regulatory changes, new investment strategies, products and derivative instruments on compliance processes and contributes to the development of impactful solutions
- Develops user-friendly documentation, procedures and process controls to ensure clarity, consistency and transparency
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- 5+ years of total relevant work experience
- Experience using AI-enabled tools, automation, or data-driven techniques to improve manual monitoring, exception review, rule extraction, or rule-building processes within an investment compliance or control environment.
- Demonstrable experience identifying opportunities to apply AI, automation, or workflow enhancement tools to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and strengthen oversight across monitoring and rule coding activities.
- Practical understanding of how AI or emerging technologies can be used responsibly to enhance investment compliance processes, including alert review, rule interpretation, documentation analysis, and control effectiveness.
- Experience with Trading/IBOR/OMS systems, experience with CRD, Aladdin, or comparable compliance platform a plus.
- Practical understanding of investment products and security types, including equities, fixed income, and derivatives.
- Strong understanding of EMEA regulatory frameworks such as UCITS (Luxembourg, UK OEIC, Ireland ICAV and German jurisdictions), AIFMD. Other regulatory frameworks would be beneficial.
- Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills, preferably within investment compliance, investment operations, or a related financial services function.
- High attention to detail with a demonstrated commitment to accuracy, quality, and sound judgment.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and adapt in a dynamic, trading-oriented environment.
- Experience with leveraging AI solutions for process augmentation and automation.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across investment, trading, legal, operations, and client-facing teams.
- Strong client service mindset and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and contribute effectively in a team-oriented environment.
Skills
- Charles River (CRD)
- AI-enabled tools
- Automation
- Data-driven techniques
- Investment compliance
- Trading/IBOR/OMS systems
- Aladdin
- Investment products
- Equities
- Fixed income
- Derivatives
- EMEA regulatory frameworks
- UCITS
- AIFMD
- Analytical skills
- Research skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- Written communication skills
- Verbal communication skills
- Client service mindset
- Interpersonal skills
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
About the Company
- Investment Compliance is a global team responsible for ensuring compliance with a diverse set of requirements, including regulatory, prospectus, client-directed, internal investment, and operational restrictions for portfolios managed by T. Rowe Price.
