Senior Associate, Compliance

ABOUT GREYSTAR

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate company offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing, logistics, and life sciences sectors. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates more than $315 billion of real estate in 250 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, manages more than 1,000,000 units/beds globally, and has a robust institutional investment management platform comprised of more than $78 billion of assets under management, including over $36 billion of development assets. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more, visit www.greystar.com.

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

This position is responsible in assisting in the development, implementation, and administering of the U.S. compliance program for the Company’s Investment Management division, including registered investment adviser (RIA) and broker dealer (BD) compliance, and supporting the Compliance leadership team. Additional responsibilities include ensuring compliance with our policies and procedures and other governing standards or requirements. Employees in this role will promote ethical behavior, facilitate ethical decision-making, and contribute to compliance management activities and functions in support of the Company.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the development, implementation, administration, and maintenance of the compliance program.
• Helps to develop, implement, improve upon and maintains various compliance controls, procedures and records.  This includes policies and procedures as required by laws and regulations applicable to the Investment Management division including, among others, RIA and BD regulatory regimes.
• Assist in projects/initiatives requiring compliance input and/or approval.
• Assist with U.S. regulatory filings including, for example, Form ADV, Form PF and Form BD.
• Assist in the development and updating of annual and periodic training on compliance policies and procedures and emerging compliance issues and related matters.
• Assist leadership in collaborating with other departments (including Portfolio Management, Investment, Information Technology, Client Services, and Investor Relations teams) as needed to ensure compliance issues are addressed and strengthen the compliance program through monitoring and testing of controls.
• Improve upon current processes to ensure adequate compliance documentation and retention is maintained.
• Help in the development of and review of risk assessments for specific business units/sub-processes.
• Works closely compliance leadership and business leaders to ensure internal and external communications and marketing materials related to the Investment Management division are compliant with SEC guidance.
• Help analyze and mitigate potential conflicts of interest in accordance with policies and procedures.  This may include, among other things, matters related to gifts and entertainment, political contributions, and outside business activities.
• Liaises with Compliance team members in Europe and Asia-Pacific with respect to compliance issues affecting the global Investment Management division, including AIFMD and RIA implications.
• Assist in the establishment and improvement of systems for auditing, tracking, and reporting the Company’s compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
• Assists in developing and promoting a compliance function that effectively manages and mitigates risk, establishes proper controls, supports capital raising and other business transactions and protects the Company from legal and regulatory risk.

Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relevant compliance experience.
• Knowledge of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, Investment Advisors Act of 1940 and Investment Company Act of 1940 and broad knowledge of other federal and state securities laws and regulations applicable to private equity funds and inv