Summa Equity is looking for a Compliance Manager

As a Compliance Manager in Summa Equity (”Summa”), you oversee and assist in ensuring Summa’s policies and standards follow the required rules and regulations. You will also proactively develop compliance programs to ensure all parts of the company follows relevant regulations. This role will give you the opportunity to work in a growing team to help set, develop and carry out compliance matters that aim at ensuring Summa’s practices minimize financial and legal risks.

About Summa Equity
Founded in 2016, Summa is an impact investor focusing on three thematic areas: Resource Efficiency, Changing Demographics, and Tech-Enabled Transformation. The purpose of Summa is to invest in solving our global challenges. Summa has c. EUR 5 billion in assets under management and has made over 30 platform investments across the three funds raised to date. The investments have the potential for long-term sustainable outperformance because they address some of the social, environmental, and governmental challenges we need to solve as a society.

The team is located in Northern Europe, with offices in Stockholm, Oslo, and Munich.
Partnerships are part of Summa’s DNA, exemplified by being a certified B Corporation and collaborating with Harvard Business School and the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI).

The role
As a Compliance Manager you will be responsible for risk and compliance related issues from a first line of defense point of view. The role is a permanent position in Summa’s legal team, reporting to the General Counsel & CEO, based in our Stockholm office. Areas of responsibilities include:

• Continously monitoring and ensuring internal policies and procedures are maintained, follwed and documented
• Supporting the business in the creation and development of the company’s internal regulations, procedures, and practices
• Monitoring and analyzing new legislation and regulation
• Planning board meetings and report the compliance status to the board
• Acting point of contact for the company’s external Compliance Officer, Risk Manager, and internal auditor
• Training co-workers in the application of new regulation and help the business
  implement new regulation
• Performing risk and compliance checks in the first line of defense
• Implementing changes in internal policies, procedures, and practices advised by the Compliance function, Risk function and the internal audito
• Assisting the company’s Finance department and investment team in regulatormatters

Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a lawyer with a strong business mindset, good working knowledge of compliance and legal matters and a genuine interest in finance and investments as well as:

• A law degree from a Nordic or Common Law jurisdiction
• ~3-5 years of experience from a similar role, preferably from a regulated business or a company within the finance sector
• Full professional proficiency of Swedish and English
• A high level of integrity and ability to work independently, as well as excellent social skills and team working capabilities
• Previous experience from AIFM related matters and private equity is a strong merit

Summa offers
Working in a tight-knit community with international colleagues and a sustainable mindset. We offer a unique opportunity to get insights into the private equity business and impact space. We offer competitive terms as well as a comprehensive benefits package, with specific offerings in wellness, personal coaching possibilities and flexible working opportunities.

Application

In this recruitment process, Summa Equity collaborates with Legal Career. To apply, submit your resume and contact details down below. Please note that Legal Career does not use personal letters in this recruitment.

If your profile meets our requirements, we will contact you for an initial interview over the telephone. We interview and present candidates on an ongoing basis and recruitment ends when we have found the right candidate. Tests, reference-checks and background controlls may be included in this recruitment process.

For questions about the process, contact responsible recruiter Bianca Säll, bianca.sall@legalcareer.se.

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