Compliance Assurance Expert

**Job Description**:
**About AXA**

As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working for 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.

**About the entity**

AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation.

We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.

We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary.

At AXA Group Operations, we want to be recognized in three fields of action:

- State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience
- State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks
- High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities

**About the job**

The Compliance Assurance & Project Manager is responsible for ensuring that the organization adheres to all relevant laws, regulations, and internal policies. This role involves conducting compliance audits, developing risk management strategies, and providing training to staff on compliance matters. The Compliance Assurance & Project Manager reports to the Compliance Assurance Manager which is managing a team based in Paris and Spain, supporting AXA GO on Compliance matters from financial crime to geopolitical compliance needs, local third-party compliance, Intragroup Contracts and International regulatory matters. The activities cover both the prevention and the remediation, and act as a strategic Business Partner vis-à-vis AXA GO team as well as the other AXA operational entities fronted.

As Compliance Assurance & Project Manager, your main objective and purpose is to:

- Protect AXA GO and its top management against sanctions or fines by addressing compliance and data privacy risks identification against both international and local regulations. Implement adequate assessment of the impacts across AXA GO’s divisions, monitoring, and remediation design / implementation.
- Raise attention on compliance risks and control and help decision making by incorporating innovative problem-solving skills.

**Main missions**

The Compliance Assurance & Project Manager will personally be involved in cases covering matters in compliance assurance and will notably be responsible for:
**Compliance Control Framework**
- Contribute to the various compliance, data privacy and AI risk assessments across AXA GO and its subsidiaries based in Europe, Asia and Americas. Ensure adequate reporting to the Senior Management and to the AXA Group Compliance and Data Privacy functions, follow up and control along the year any relevant variation on the risk. Guarantee escalation to Senior Management on a timely manner when deemed necessary.
- Contribute to the Compliance Assurance plan with the aim to control the alignment of the Compliance activities (implementation requirements, policies and procedures, trainings and awareness, etc.) with AXA Group Standards and external regulations.
- Ensure strong alignment in terms of practices, control frameworks and control review with other GO control functions (e.g. Risk Management, Internal Control, Internal Audit) but also other support functions where there is a strong need for coordination on recurrent activities such as the Third-Party Risk Management process (Vendor Risk Committee, Third Party Audits) with Procurement teams or the ISO certification process with Information Security team.
- Provide both guidance and regulatory direction to develop new processes or controls. Foster transformation, innovation in the compliance landscape, implementation of best practices, identify areas of improvement and simplification.

**Regulatory transformation**
- Lead projects with the objective to accompany the Compliance & DP department in its transformation journey with regards to the need to comply with new regulations but also to improve technical capabilities (e.g. more automation, AI use cases, etc.).
- Drive the change by leading transformation projects for the benefit of the Compliance & Data Privacy team and the other AXA GO teams.

**Global