What Does a Compliance Professional Do?

The person leading a compliance regulatory function will have to internalise conflicts and exercise supreme judgement in balancing the need to allow its business to flourish in an increasingly complex regulatory environment, whilst avoiding the potentially devastating consequences of non-compliance.

Why Is Regulatory Compliance Recruitment Important?

The regulatory compliance sector is one that is constantly evolving, making it a very interesting field to work in. Every year, new regulations and rules are being introduced, meaning compliance professionals must always be on top of the ever-changing sector to properly assess how any regulatory update can affect a business and its activities.

Sam O'Sullivan

Senior Principal Consultant, Legal & Compliance

With over 8 years of recruitment experience, Sam is a Senior Principal Consultant for the Legal & Compliance team at Rutherford. Having worked in recruitment in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, Sam has developed over the years a knack at understanding what makes a candidate a great cultural fit for the mandate at hand.

Having worked in the wider hedge fund recruitment sector for the past 3 years, Sam now specialised at Rutherford in sourcing and placing top compliance and in-house legal talent for leading buy-side firms, both in the United Kingdom and the United States.