MetLife

■Role Summary

The Compliance Risk Management (“CRM”) manages the firm’s compliance risks to prevent violations of law, rule, or regulation, and designs and delivers a compliance risk management framework that maintains risk levels within the firm's risk appetite and protects the franchise.  CRM is a risk-based department, focused on emerging risks, and providing constructive challenge to the business and functions, partnering closely with them to implement strong processes and effective controls, as well as to better foster and embed a culture of compliance. CRM monitors trends and changes in regulations and develops and implements firmwide and divisional policies and procedures.

This position will serve as Compliance Officer for the investment management real estate business of MetLife Investment Management Limited (MIMJ) in Japan. MIMJ is registered with the Financial Services Agency (FSA) for Type II Financial Instruments, Investment Advisory, and Agency and Investment Management business. This role will act to provide ongoing compliance advice, counsel and oversight to the regulated entity and its personnel as it pertains to the real estate business. This role will need to offer credible challenge, escalation of issues and reporting, as appropriate, and working closely with the Investments teams to implement controls and guidelines while ensuring compliance with global and regional policies, procedures and standards, law, rule and regulation. This role entails working closely and collaborating with Investments leadership, legal, other compliance teams while focusing on strategic initiatives and emerging issues.

This role would be expected to stay abreast of all applicable laws, rules and regulations ensuring they are then incorporated with advice offered to the Investments team.   This role will partner with the first line to develop appropriate risk mitigation strategies and controls, conducting monitoring and testing to ensure that all local investment activities and the employees responsible for investing on behalf of the company comply with regulatory requirements and company standards. This role will work collaboratively with Investments professional and senior managers across globally and with other Investments Department risk control organizations, including Risk Management, Legal, and Internal Audit. This role is a critical position to ensure that FSA requirements have been effectively implemented across the MIMJ entity and ensure that the appropriate governance and control environment is developed to become compliant with any future regulatory developments. 

Working alongside other compliance professionals, you will be a pro-active Compliance officer. Anticipating where issues may arise is critical, and the ability to get ahead of regulatory expectations is key to success in the role.  The individual will be required to make sound judgment-based decisions and answer complicated compliance risk-related questions, put appropriate controls in place to mitigate risks, and exercise judgment to know when issues need to be further escalated to senior management for consideration and deliberation.  

■Key Responsibilities

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills: