Compliance Director - Milan

Compliance Director - Milan

Requisition ID: 48958

Business Unit: Fitch Group

Category: Legal & Compliance

Location: Milan, Milan, IT

Date Posted: Oct 30, 2025

Compliance Director

Compliance is currently seeking a Director based out of an EU office.

As a leading, global financial information services provider, Fitch Group delivers vital credit and risk insights, robust data, and dynamic tools to champion more efficient, transparent financial markets. With over 100 years of experience and colleagues in over 30 countries, Fitch Group’s culture of credibility, independence, and transparency is embedded throughout its structure, which includes Fitch Ratings, one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, and Fitch Solutions, a leading provider of insights, data and analytics. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

At Fitch Group, the combined power of our global perspectives is what differentiates us. It is the strength of our business. It comes from people around the world in a shared pursuit: to equal something greater than they could ever accomplish alone. Every team member is essential to our business and every perspective is critical for our success. Develop yourself in a culture that values flexibility, expects your opinion and trusts your decisions. Together we evolve and so will you, in an environment that asks you to challenge yourself – and us.

About the Team

The Regulatory Compliance team is primarily responsible for managing Fitch Ratings’ interaction with regulators across EMEA, including required regulatory reporting and supervisory inspections and examinations.

The team is responsible for ensuring general compliance with applicable credit rating agency regulations, fulfilling various regulatory reporting obligations, reviewing Fitch Ratings’ policies and procedures to ensure they are designed to effectively address regulatory requirements, and handling conduct-related internal investigations and complaints.

• The successful applicant will be given an opportunity to work with EMEA regulators, as well as senior members of the Compliance leadership team and internal stakeholders throughout the EMEA region and will have exposure to the full range of compliance activities impacting Fitch Ratings’ activities in EMEA.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Reporting into a Managing Director responsible for EU or UK/MEA Regulatory Compliance, the successful candidate will be responsible for conducting and maintaining key compliance processes and disclosures which support the team’s regulatory compliance mandate.
• The successful candidate will often be a first point of contact for internal stakeholders regarding compliance matters impacting Fitch Ratings’ operations with respect to communicating information, training, outreach, as well as supporting staff on compliance matters throughout the region.
• Act as key backup support for regulatory compliance matters in EMEA (EU, UK and Middle East), particularly fulfilment of regulatory reporting, ad hoc information requests and responses to investigation obligations, collaborating with other members of the Regulatory Compliance team in relation to compliance issues on a regional and global basis.

You May be a Good Fit if:

• Educated to university degree level or equivalent.
• Highly organised and efficient, with the ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines with a high degree of flexibility and excellent time-management skills
• Excellent drafting and communicationskills with great attention to detail.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

• Experience dealing with regulatory agencies and managing regulatory inspections/examinations in a financial services environment.
• Previous experience in a Credit Ratings environment (or other similar FCA/ESMA-supervised sector).
• Exposure to and knowledge of MetricStream or other governance, risk and compliance (GRC) systems .

Why Choose Fitch:

• Hybrid Work Environment: 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
• Inclusive Work Environment : A collaborative workplacewhere all voices are valued, withEmployee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

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