Senior Compliance Manager

Main Purpose

The Compliance department at Trafigura is a global function responsible for ensuring the business operates in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies. The team provides guidance and oversight across the Group's trading, operations, and corporate functions — covering areas including anti-bribery and corruption (ABC), sanctions screening, anti-money laundering (AML), trade controls, and regulatory compliance. Working closely with Legal, Finance, and the business lines, Compliance plays a critical role in managing regulatory risk, maintaining Trafigura's licence to operate, and embedding a strong culture of integrity across the organisation.

The Senior Compliance manager will assist the Chief Compliance Officer with all aspects of assessing, monitoring and developing the Trafigura Group Compliance Program to ensure the consistent and robust continuous improvement of the Compliance program.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Compliance or law professional with at least 10 years’ relevant experience

• Hands-on experience with sanctions programmes, screenings and interpretation of applicable trade controls

• Experience in commodities trading and commodity shipping, ideally with significant international and cross border experience

• Should have extensive experience of all aspects of a corporate compliance program including anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering, trade sanctions, and market abuse.

• Working knowledge of European regulatory frameworks, particularly Swiss law, EU, UK, US, Swiss sanctions regimes, and EMIR/MiFID II

• AML/KYC operational experience in a financial services or trading environment

• Good IT skills and organisational skills

• Strong project management skills

• Excellent command of written and spoken English

• Experience with Relativity desired

Key Responsibilities           

• Review complex sanctions-related queries and regulatory updates. This involves interpreting applicable sanctions regimes, assessing their relevance to business activities, ensuring trade compliance, and drafting or updating sanctions guidance and policies accordingly.

• Review escalations related to gifts and entertainment  

• Review complex third party payment issues

• Investigating possible breaches of the Code of Business Conduct or other Compliance policies and implementing any required rectification

• Providing the escalation point for complex / non-standard KYC / AML issues

• Implementation of Compliance Projects related to Artificial Intelligence

• To keep all existing training up to date and develop new training where necessary.

• Co-ordinate and progress a variety of process / system / policy review and improvement projects.

• Assist with internal compliance investigation and review

• Coordinate and assist compliance with internal and external audit

• Coordinate and assist with the compliance global annual risk review

• Build relationships with key relationships departments outlined below

Key Relationships   

• Legal

• Trading teams

• Claims/Disbursements

• Chartering

• Operations

• Finance

• Back office

• IT

Competencies

• Communicates effectively

• Courage

• decision quality

• manages complexity

• global perspective

• plans and aligns

Reporting Structure

• Reporting to the Co-Heads of Compliance

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.