Compliance Specialist

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This is for you who wants to have a real impact on creating a healthier planet for our children every day. At Neste, you will be working for the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner in developing renewable and circular feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals. Let’s create transformation for a sustainable future together. 

We are looking for you, 

Compliance Specialist 

to join our Marketing & Services Compliance team in Espoo, Finland. Your location can be Tallinn (Estonia), Riga (Latvia), or Vilnius (Lithuania) as well.  

Are you interested in managing and developing processes to ensure we deliver the best quality of services, both towards our customers and our regulators? Are you a skilled professional in Know Your Customer processes and interested in data privacy?   

Marketing & Services Compliance team is responsible for ensuring compliance in Finland and in the Baltics. We continuously develop our processes to efficiently work against money laundering, terrorist financing and other types of financial crime. Compliance, cooperation and integrity enable our team to support business in identifying, assessing, mitigating, monitoring and preventing financial crime and data privacy issues and risks.  

As a Compliance Specialist, you will have a key role in developing Marketing & Services’ Know your Customer (KYC) and GDPR processes to the next level. Together with you and your expertise, we can make an impact today and keep our promises for tomorrow. 

Reasons to join 

Real impact right now. We work in an inspiring and evolving business environment, where everything we do serves one purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. To drive a growing impact as a global leader in renewable and circular solutions we live by our values every day; we care, we have courage, we cooperate. 

Safety and caring. We value safety always and everywhere. We want our work to feel good and do good. At Neste, we nurture a culture where everyone is welcome and feels safe, respected and encouraged to be their unique true selves.  

Exciting growth. Transformation brings new possibilities and fosters our courage and curiosity. As a global growing company, we support personal development with versatile learning and career opportunities. Collaboration is the key, and we believe in flexible, smart ways of working. 

In addition, our benefits for employees in Finland include, for example, a personnel fund as part of the overall remuneration, good occupational health care, and an extensive membership in a sickness or health insurance fund. We also support leisure time activities, e.g., by offering benefits for sports and culture. 

Salary range for Estonia 2400€ - 2700€/month, Latvia 2200€ - 2475€/month and Lithuania incl. social contribution 2800€ - 3100€/month.

More about the job 

Your role in our team  

• Manage and develop GDPR and KYC processes on an operational hands on-level. We hope you enjoy routines and operative tasks as well.

• Ensure that KYC requirements are met, and sufficient KYC processes are implemented. You are responsible for ensuring that customer data is updated on a regular basis.

• Participate in projects as a member or act as a project lead in Compliance related areas

• Have an active role in establishing systematic training in KYC, GDPR and other Compliance related areas and ensure relative support for users e.g., in solving complex compliance issues

• Process data privacy requests in cooperation with the privacy team 

• Preparing compliance related instructions and documents e.g., from RPA and keeping documentation up to date 

• Participate in operational work with the team including identifying new and existing customers, verifying their background data, and assessing the risk related to the customers. You will be responsible for the quarterly monitoring of our customers.

In this role, you will work closely with Risk Management, Legal, Sales, Customer Service and Customers to ensure that our processes are up to required standards. You have your manager’s and team’s support all the way. The exact contents of the role will partly depend on the expertise, experience and interests of the selected candidate. 

Keys to success in this role 

• B.Sc. in a relevant field, such as economics or administration

• Few years working experience in similar roles 

• Ability to work independently and endure stress in a hectic working pace

• Understanding legislative and compliance requirements (AML, Privacy)

• Genuine interest in developing processes and existing ways of working  

• Good social skills with ability to make recommendations and decisions

• Proficiency in English, both written and spoken

We also value 

• Experience in compliance issues

• Strong skills in GDPR or willingness to learn

• Experience in project work

• Positive attitude and demonstrated skills in driving successful teamwork

• Knowledge and understanding Marketing & Services business and ways of working 

Let’s get you started 

Wondering whether we are a match or not? Take a short test at neste.com/game.  

We look forward to receiving your CV and application with a salary request by June 9, 2024. We will review applications already during the application period. 

If you have any questions regarding the process or the position, please call Mari Rinneaho, Manager, Solution Support & Compliance, tel. +358 50 458 8254 on May 29 at 13:00-15:00 (EEST), May 31 at 9:00-10:30 (EEST) or June 4 at 12:00-14:00 (EEST). 

The recruitment process includes interviews and possible aptitude tests. Depending on location and local processes, the employment might require passing a health examination including a drug test and a security clearance might be obtained for the selected person with their consent.