ESG Compliance Officer

ESG Compliance Officer

Location: Dublin

Business Area: Legal, Compliance, and Risk

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Description & Requirements

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Bloomberg's Legal & Compliance Department supports businesses and operations worldwide, addressing complex legal issues and promoting diversity and inclusion. The Global Compliance team provides coverage of regulated entities, supports non regulated products, and works on regulatory matters, ensuring compliance with current and developing rules.

What's the role?

Bloomberg seeks an experienced Compliance Officer to oversee ESG services, particularly the regulatory oversight of ESG ratings.

Responsibilities

• Advise and assist senior management, the Management Board and others in carrying out regulated activities to comply with regulatory obligations.
• Serve as primary regulatory liaison, drafting and submitting regulatory filings, managing notifications, and coordinating responses to regulatory information requests, reviews and inspections.
• Develop, implement and maintain entity level Compliance policies and procedures (e.g., record keeping policy) to ensure ESG ratings are issued, published and distributed in compliance with applicable requirements.
• Operate a conflicts of interest (CoI) framework, maintaining a CoI register, overseeing staff attestations, related training, and maintaining staff trading restrictions with Group Compliance support.
• Conduct risk and controls monitoring and compliance oversight, partnering with Group Risk & Compliance; identify deficiencies and report to the Management Board promptly.
• Support relevant Board and governance bodies; provide regular Management Information (MI) to the Board and governance bodies.
• Oversee ongoing compliance review and approval of ESG rating methodologies and related disclosures, including methodology descriptions, rating transparency disclosures, and website content.
• Oversee public complaints procedure, including investigations and responses to reasoned concerns from stakeholders, and whistle blowing reports.
• Oversee the effectiveness of business line separation measures and perform annual effectiveness reviews.
• Own and oversee the public complaints handling process.
• Identify compliance and regulatory training needs, coordinate delivery, track completion, and ensure staff familiarity with ESG compliance policies and procedures.

You'll need to have:

• Over 8 years of experience in financial services compliance and/or risk management, with exposure to ESG related products, services, or regulatory frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience engaging directly with regulators and supervisors, and managing regulatory relationships, ideally in the EU.
• Strong working knowledge of EU regulatory requirements and interpretative guidance relating to ESG ratings (or analogous experience in pricing or credit ratings).
• Ability to conduct detailed, technical reviews of ESG rating methodologies and governance arrangements.
• Experience implementing ESG transparency, governance, and conflict of interest management, including effective system and control design.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, assess and manage regulatory and compliance risk, including operating risk frameworks and issue management processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a strong track record of drafting policies, procedures, manuals, reports and materials for senior management and governance bodies.
• Strong executive presence and sound professional judgment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced, evolving environment.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across global teams.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at its company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

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