Regulatory Developments Specialist

4 weeks ago


Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Aberdeen Standard Investments Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Regulatory Developments Analyst to join our team in the abrdn Risk & Compliance Division. As a key member of our Regulatory Developments Team, you will play a critical role in leading horizon scanning and analysis on funds, markets, and conduct regulation.

Key Responsibilities

Leading horizon scanning and analysis on funds, markets, and conduct regulation:

  1. Develop and maintain strong expertise on key regulatory files, including AIFMD, UCITS, MiFID, sustainability, and prudential rules, to identify and diagnose material regulatory developments for abrdn.
  2. Provide timely and concise regulatory summaries and updates to colleagues across the group.

Supporting subject matter experts across the firm on key developments, impact assessments, and consultations:

  1. Maintain a strong awareness and understanding of abrdn's key businesses in the UK and EMEA and build and leverage a wide network of business contacts to mobilise action.
  2. Work closely with SMEs to support thorough impact assessment of key regulatory developments and tracking of required actions for implementation.
  3. Work with the Public Affairs team to coordinate abrdn responses to key regulatory consultations.

Supporting consistent global application of the group's model for end-to-end regulatory change:

  1. Production and analysis of periodic MI and reporting on regulatory change activity across the group.
  2. Work with colleagues in Regulatory Developments and across the regions to track progress of regulatory change activity across the group, identifying and escalating issues if required to Chief Compliance Officers.
  3. Work with the group's internal business change hub to maintain an overview of major regulatory change activity in train and ensure timely scoping and mobilisation of large-scale regulatory projects.

About the Candidate

  1. Good understanding of large, diverse financial services businesses.
  2. The ability to interpret financial regulation and distil likely commercial and operational impacts.
  3. Proven ability to communicate the impact of regulatory developments to a range of senior internal and external stakeholders in a concise and articulate manner.
  4. Good understanding of current and emerging regulatory compliance market trends, methods, and tools.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. Therefore, if you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire and one of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. This includes 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare, and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans, and access to an employee discount portal. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability, please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.



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