Manager Compliance - India Office

JurisTax Group; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A regulatory compliance firm is looking for an experienced Manager – Compliance (AML/CFT) to join their Pune office. The role involves leading compliance training, mentoring staff, overseeing audit operations, and ensuring quality assurance. Candidates should have a degree in Law or Finance and 8-10 years of relevant experience. Excellent communication and analytical skills are essential. This position offers an opportunity to manage significant compliance activities in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in compliance or financial services.
• Experience in leading internal and external training sessions.
• Ability to mentor and develop audit staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead internal training sessions and deliver external client training.
• Assign tasks to team members and oversee performance.
• Ensure audit outputs meet quality benchmarks.
• Direct and oversee day-to-day audit operations.
• Identify opportunities for new service lines.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Outstanding communication

Interpersonal abilities

Organizational skills

Strong knowledge of regulations

Education

Degree in Law/Finance/Management

Job description

JurisTax Group is seeking an experienced Manager – Compliance (AML/CFT) to join its team. The selected candidate will be based at our Pune office in India.

Training & Capacity Building

• Lead internal training sessions to build technical audit and compliance expertise within the team.
• Deliver external client training programs on AML/CFT obligations, audit findings, and best practices, as and when required.
• Evaluate training effectiveness and update programs in line with regulatory changes and evolving AML/CFT risks.
• Mentor and develop audit staff through ongoing supervision and knowledge-sharing.
• Maintain an internal knowledge base of evolving typologies, regulatory circulars, and industry best practices
• Brief senior management and staff regularly on emerging risks and compliance expectations.

Team Supervision

• Assign tasks to team members, monitor daily progress, and provide on-the-spot guidance where required.
• Review staff outputs, ensuring quality and consistency across working papers and reports.
• Conduct daily/weekly operational meetings with audit staff to track progress and address blockers.
• Oversee performance, identify skill gaps and organise targeted training or mentoring to strengthen delivery capacity.
• Monitor invoicing, collections, and engagement profitability to ensure assignments are financially sustainable.
• Authorise and track expenditure related to assignments (e.g., travel for offsite audits, software licences, external consultants).
• Provide regular financial oversight reports to senior management, highlighting delays in collections or unprofitable engagements.

Additional Duties

• Undertake other cognate duties assigned by senior management, particularly where operational coordination is required.
• Attending client meetings as and when required.
• Reporting during Board meetings and at frequent dashboards of the Company.

Operational Oversight

• Direct and oversee day-to-day audit operations, ensuring all client assignments are progressing according to agreed timelines, budgets, and scope.
• Maintain a centralised assignment tracker covering status, deliverables, deadlines and responsible staff, with escalation protocols for delays.
• Supervise scheduling and resource allocation to ensure optimal use of team capacity.
• Oversee offsite operations at client premises, ensuring logistics, documentation, and reporting are properly managed.
• Ensure audit outputs (working papers, reports) are reviewed and approved before release to clients.
• Follow up with clients on pending documents, clarifications, or approvals required to complete engagements.
• Ensure continuity of audit operations especially for time-sensitive assignments.
• Regularly assess the efficiency of control systems, flag operational risks to senior management and recommend effective improvements.
• Develop and implement policies and procedures as may be required for the provision of the services provided by the Company.
• Act as the primary operational point of contact for client boards, MLROs and compliance teams during audit execution.
• Manage follow-ups on remediation actions post-audit, ensuring clients address deficiencies identified.
• Oversee timely and accurate preparation of reports for regulators, ensuring delivery of required documentation.

Strategic Development & Business Growth

• Identify opportunities for new service lines (e.g., thematic reviews, regulatory gap analyses, outsourced MLRO).
• Evaluate the operational feasibility of new ventures and ensure adequate capacity before execution.

Quality Assurance & Control Systems

• Design, implement and enforce daily monitoring controls to ensure assignments meet internal quality benchmarks.
• Conduct ongoing review of audit testing procedures, ensuring they remain consistent with methodology and regulatory expectations.
• Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or recurring issues in operations and initiate corrective measures.
• Report daily/weekly progress and operational KPIs to senior management.

Qualifications and key competencies:

• Degree in Law/ Finance/ management or other related qualifications.
• 8-10 years of experience in the compliance team or in the financial services industry.
• Strong knowledge of industry processes and regulations.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities.
• An analytical mindset with excellent organizational skills.