Compliance Associate - German Speaking

Company Description

Third Bridge is a market-leading investment research firm. We provide integrated solutions for the world's top investors and business leaders to help them make smarter and faster decisions. No other company in the world provides the same holistic investment offering: our superpower is the combination of human insights and unique investor-led content with a global expert network. We serve over 1,000 investment firms, offering clients 24/7 coverage through our team of 1,600+ employees located across twelve offices.

Job Description

Are you an analytical thinker with a sharp eye for detail and professional fluency in German? We are looking for a dedicated Compliance Associate to join our team in London. This is a critical role where you will act as the first line of defense, ensuring that our market-leading investment research is safe, compliant, and ready for the world's top investors.

This isn't just a reading job; it's a deep-dive analytical role where your judgment directly protects the integrity of our global platform.

What You'll Do

You will be the "first look" in our content workflow, ensuring that every transcript meets rigorous legislative and internal standards before it ever reaches a client.

• Critical Risk Analysis: Review, identify and analyze risks related to confidential information, regulatory requirements, and MNPI.
• Linguistic Translation of Risk: Conduct reviews in German, but escalate and explain the identified risks in clear, "plain English" to senior stakeholders and managers.
• Product Creation: You are the gatekeeper. You will proactively edit and "cut" non-compliant sections of transcripts, ensuring only the highest quality, low-risk research reaches our portal.
• Compliance Advisory: Answer day-to-day queries from internal business units and assist in delivering compliance training to new and existing team members, as necessary.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Build strong, professional relationships with internal stakeholders as needed, balancing compliance requirements with the need to deliver insightful content.

Qualifications

What You'll Bring

You enjoy deep, focused work and have the professional grounding to master complex compliance principles.

• Linguistic Fluency: Native or professional-level fluency in German and English. You must be comfortable understanding "financial speak" (e.g., EBITDA, margins, M&A) in both languages.
• Analytical Grounding: Professional experience, ideally in Compliance, Law, or a risk-based role (KYC, AML, or due diligence). A law/compliance degree is a significant plus.
• Focused Excellence: You are comfortable with a reading-heavy, contemplative role that requires intense concentration and a meticulous eye for detail.
• Communication Skills: The ability to translate complex risk assessments into concise English, ensuring that managers who don't speak your target language fully understand your reasoning.
• Reliability: A "Steady Eddie" profile-you are looking for a stable, high-quality role where you can truly "ground in" and master your craft under expert mentorship.

Additional Information

How will you be rewarded?

We truly care about our people so in return for your work, you'll get:

• Competitive basic salary based on experience and annual company bonus scheme dependent on individual and company performance.
• Vacation: 25 days (which increases to 28 days after 2 years of service) plus UK Bank Holidays
• Learning: personal development allowance of £1000 per year
• Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan, a variety of health and wellbeing events to focus on mental health, Ride to Work scheme (savings on bikes and accessories)
• Future and family: pension contributions of 4% (increases with tenure) and life insurance of 4x of your base salary
• Flexibility: work from anywhere for one month per year, 2 annual volunteer days, 2 personal days when life throws you a curveball and 'Summer Fridays'
• Rewards: get points through our colleague-to-colleague recognition programme to spend on hotels, gift cards, donations to charity and more
• Social: optional social gatherings, daily breakfast and snacks, social events
• ESG: CSR, Environment and Diversity & Inclusion (including Women at Third Bridge, Pride and Blkbridge)
• Frontline Innovation: your chance to share your ideas for improvement through Hackathons and other events

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country they are applying.

We know that to be truly innovative, we need to have a diverse team around us. That is why Third Bridge is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you are not 100% sure if you are right for the role, please apply anyway and we will be happy to consider your application.