Compliance & Risk Officer, Baillie Gifford Europe

Job Title

Compliance & Risk Officer, Baillie Gifford Europe

Department

Operations Dublin-International-Ireland

Overview of Department

Baillie Gifford Investment Management Europe Limited is an Irish-authorised UCITS Management Company and Alternative Investment Fund Manager based in Dublin, and part of the wider Baillie Gifford Group.

Purpose of Role

We are seeking an experienced senior regulatory professional to lead the Compliance and Risk functions for Baillie Gifford Europe (BGE). This is a Dublin based role.
This is a key leadership and pre-approval controlled function role, responsible for maintaining effective, proportionate and commercially informed compliance and risk frameworks across BGE’s fund management and oversight activities, including UCITS funds, AIFs and segregated mandates.
This role carries responsibility for the firm's independent risk oversight and regulatory compliance obligations, including engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland. The role holder will act as BGE’s PCF-12 Head of Compliance and PCF-14 Chief Risk Officer. They will provide independent oversight, advice and challenge across BGE’s compliance and risk management arrangements, ensuring that frameworks, policies, governance, reporting and escalation mechanisms remain effective, proportionate and aligned with applicable Irish and EU regulatory requirements.
Appointment to this role is subject to the Central Bank of Ireland’s Fitness and Probity approval process and the candidate meeting BGE’s internal due diligence requirements.

Responsibilities

Compliance responsibilities

• Lead and maintain BGE’s jurisdictional compliance framework, including relevant policies, procedures, monitoring, controls, governance and documentation.
• Provide pragmatic, risk-based regulatory advice to the business, ensuring Compliance input is embedded into key decisions, product developments, governance forums and change initiatives.
• Maintain an effective regulatory horizon-scanning process, assessing the impact of regulatory change and coordinating implementation across the business.
• Act as a senior point of contact with the Central Bank of Ireland and other relevant regulators, including regulatory correspondence, inspections, visits, information requests and follow-up actions.
• Oversee breach, incident and issue management from a compliance perspective, including escalation, root-cause analysis, remediation tracking and regulatory reporting where required.

Risk responsibilities

• Lead and maintain BGE’s risk management framework, ensuring that current and emerging risks are identified, assessed, managed, monitored and reported.
• Oversee risk exposures against BGE’s approved risk appetite, supporting senior management and the Board in setting, reviewing and challenging risk appetite.
• Oversee risk assessment, stress testing, scenario analysis and risk reporting across BGE’s business activities, including fund oversight and operational risk.
• Provide independent challenge on material business decisions, new initiatives, outsourcing arrangements, delegate oversight and service-provider arrangements.
• Ensure risk management arrangements remain appropriate to BGE’s scale, business model, product range and regulatory obligations.

Governance and leadership responsibilities

• Produce clear, timely and insightful reporting for the Board, senior management, committees and regulators, including an overall assessment of Compliance and Risk effectiveness, emerging themes and material issues.
• Participate in relevant governance forums, escalating material issues and providing effective challenge as appropriate.
• Oversee outsourcing, delegate and service-provider risk and compliance oversight, including due diligence, ongoing monitoring, service-level governance and responsibility mapping.
• Lead, coach and develop team members supporting the Compliance and Risk functions, promoting a culture of high standards, constructive challenge and continuous improvement.
• Build effective relationships across BGE, the wider Baillie Gifford Group, external service providers and regulators.

Your knowledge and experience:

• Significant senior experience in compliance, risk, legal, regulatory, governance or oversight roles within asset management, fund management, investment management or another relevant regulated financial services environment.
• Experience operating in, or supporting, a PCF, SMF, CF or equivalent senior regulated role, ideally within Ireland, the UK or another EU jurisdiction.
• Strong understanding of Irish and EU regulatory frameworks including UCITS Directive, AIFMD, and Central Bank of Ireland requirements.
• Experience engaging with regulators, boards, senior management, delegates, depositaries, administrators, investment managers and other service providers.
• Strong knowledge of investment products, fund structures, portfolio oversight, liquidity risk, operational risk, investment risk and regulatory reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret regulation pragmatically and proportionately, balancing investor protection, regulatory expectations and business objectives.

The type of candidate that we're looking for:

We are looking for a senior compliance and risk professional with sound judgement, strong regulatory credibility and the confidence to provide independent challenge. You will be collaborative and pragmatic, able to build trusted relationships while maintaining clear independence of thought. You will bring high ethical standards, a strong investor-protection mindset and the ability to operate effectively with boards, regulators, senior stakeholders and external service providers

Critical skills:

• Nurture relationships
• Digital effectiveness (including AI)
• Enabling others
• Improvement mindset
• Team working

Closing Date

September 10, 2026

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