Risk and Compliance Analyst
Wahed Invest
IT, Legal
India
Posted on May 15, 2025
About Wahed
Wahed Ventures is a prominent equity crowdfunding and investment platform dedicated to ethical investments. As part of the Wahed group, a global leader in ethical finance, Wahed Ventures focuses on identifying promising investment opportunities aligned with our ethical principles. Wahed has also recently ventured into Real Estate investing.
Job Brief
Act as a liaison between the Group Risk & Compliance function and the Wahed Ventures Business team, ensuring alignment of strategic risk and compliance priorities. Build a deep understanding of the ECF & RECF business model across the UK, Malaysia, and USA
Job Description
- Compliance:
- Support the development and periodic review of policies, ensuring they reflect current regulatory requirements and business operations for CF platforms.
- Lead and execute the risk-based compliance monitoring plan across Wahed Ventures operations, ensuring appropriate testing and reporting mechanisms are in place.
- Monitor external regulatory developments and emerging risks in CF and early- stage investment ecosystem; ensure timely escalation of critical issues.
- Conduct end-to-end due diligence and risk assessment of deals including verification of deal documentation, issuer background, ongoing obligations and documentation of deviations.
- Review marketing, promotional, and investor communication materials to ensure accuracy, transparency, and alignment with regulatory standards and risk disclosures.
- To assess and monitor jurisdiction-specific and group-wide risk exposures.
- Risk:
- Identify and evaluate key regulatory, operational, and reputational risks, and assist in formulating and implementing appropriate mitigating controls in collaboration with function owners.
- Coordinate and compile periodic risk and compliance updates for presentation to Risk Committees and senior management, highlighting key risk trends, incidents, and control gaps.
- Support the implementation and tracking of third-party risk management protocols, especially in relation to external advisors, platforms, and vendors supporting the Ventures business.
- Drive the embedding of a risk-aware culture within Ventures by providing guidance, awareness sessions, and proactive risk advisory support to business units.
- Documenting key action items emanating from Wahed Ventures working group calls and tracking them for closure.
- Logging of issues, remediations, incidents etc. in the GRC tool - Archer and ensuring the tool is updated at all times.
Job Specification:
- Graduate with around 4-6 years of experience in risk & compliance.
- Knowledge of risk & compliance management principles and the interrelationships of 3 LoDs.
- Prior experience on ECF will be added advantage.
- Understanding of compliance & business risks with special focus on financial risks and internal controls.