Due Diligence & Screening Officer

Overall Purpose

We are looking for a Due Diligence & Screening Officer to ensure that our operations and business transactions follow all relevant legal and internal rules. What is Due Diligence? Due diligence is an investigation, audit, or review performed to confirm facts or details of a matter under consideration. In the financial world, due diligence requires an examination of financial records before entering into a proposed transaction with another party.

To succeed in this role, you should be a reliable professional who is not afraid to speak their mind and stand by their decisions. You will need to identity and assess the situation and standing of our current and future customers (due diligence) and evaluate potential risks (corruption, fraud, money laundering, bribery) to which they could impact and expose Arelion to. Your goal will be to ensure we operate in a legal and ethical manner while meeting and our business objectives.

In addition, to the Due Diligence area, we are also keen to build on our knowledge and expertise in the areas of trade compliance and sanctions control to ensure that we have robust baseline from which to operate.

Advantageous Attributes

- You will have a proven track record of successfully delivering business change and experience of managing requirements from definition to delivery
- You’ll have excellent people management experience, networking and communication skills, strong stakeholder management, problem solving skills and experience of managing multiple projects in a highly dynamic and fast paced environment.
- Highly self-motivated and driven with a proactive and ‘can-do’ attitude
- Displays an eagerness for service excellence and continuous improvement
- Personable, diplomatic and approachable, with an enthusiastic and motivational nature and an overall passion for service excellence
- You will need to be analytical and inquisitive, with excellent attention to detail

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement a third-party due diligence process and Know Your Customer (‘KYC’) policy in Arelion based on the Third-Party Code of Conduct, Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy and other applicable internal regulations in the area of third-party management. Note: Third party is a party with whom Arelion has or intends to have a contractual business relationship, e.g., supplier, customer, agent, banks, etc.

- Play a supporting role when it comes to assessing Trade Sanctions and Export Control Policy
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Design the following templates to be used in the due diligence process:

- Upfront Information Questionnaire document (a document to be filled in by the third-party supplier or customer entity in question – collects basic information on the affiliate to be assessed, i.e. company registration address and number)
- A post-Due Diligence Self-Assessment Questionnaire (a document to be filled in by a third party It can contain different questions for different types of third parties), should a deeper Due Diligence analysis be required
- Ethical Compass – the guideline on how to assess the due diligence findings and eventually build a risk profile of the third party
- Due diligence report
- Ensure that a list of high – risk countries is compiled and updated on an annual basis.
- Ensure that rescreening of third parties is designed and implemented.
- Ensure that the due diligence process is up to date according to the internal regulations and other good practices in the area of third-party due diligence.
- Ensure that there is an up-to-date process description of the due diligence process which describes at least steps, outcomes, responsible for each step, timeframes.
- Train business functions on the due diligence process
- Advise business functions (Sales, Procurement, others) on how to embed due diligence checks in their respective business processes
- Act as an administrator of the compliance platform, e.g., management of user rights, upgrades of the system, workflow strategy.
- Become a master user and a ‘go to’ person when it comes to using Arelion’s Due Diligence tool


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Report analytics related to the due diligence area to the management or upon other requests



- Experience from searching information from different sources
- Be able to structure and analyse large amount of information
- Excellent communication skills – verbal and written
- IT literate
- Able to work efficiently under time pressure
- Team-player


From humble beginnings in the early 1990s, we have become connectivity partner of choice to the world’s largest content providers, operators and enterprises. In the past, our network laid the very foundations of the Internet revolution and today it’s enabling digitalization throughout business and society.

Arelion, formerly Telia Carrier, is owned by Polhem Infra, a Swedish investment company backed by some of the largest Swedish public pension funds. We started building our network in 1993, when our Autonomous System, AS1299, was allocated, and we’ve grown organically ever since. Our network now stretches 70,000 kms across Europe, North America and Asia and lets you connect directly to more than 2,300 wholesale customers in more than 125 countries. With more than 450 local access partners around the world, we are the backbone of your business, wherever you are.

Arelion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by relevant local laws.