Closing Date: 8th March
Salary and benefits: Up to £50,000 per annum plus an indicative bonus range of 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more
Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.
Location: Birmingham with time spent in the office and working from home.
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.
We’re Phoenix Group, we’re a long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.
The role
We’re currently recruiting for a Senior Compliance Consultant to join the Asset Management Compliance Pillar within the Compliance Advisory and Customer Oversight Team to assist with providing advice, independent opinion and assurance to the Asset Management Business Division. The main purpose of the role is to assist and support the Phoenix Asset Management Compliance team by turning operational data into risk insight and supporting thematic oversight across the pillar. In addition ensuring all the business activities are carried out in compliance to the relevant rules and regulations.
Key Responsibilities
Produce MI for Boards, Committees and Senior Management
Analyse breach logs, trade logs, Forum and Committee MI to identify risk themes.
Undertake analysis and interpretation of regulatory requirements, expectations and good market practice as part of formulating and providing advice to the business on regulatory and compliance matters.
Support the Senior Compliance Manager with day-to-day compliance and administrative tasks.
Assist with monitoring trading and fund management activity alongside the Compliance Advisory Managers and learn how compliance monitoring/testing is conducted.
Track issues, actions and evidence arising from Line 2 and GIA reviews.
Develop a broad understanding of the private and public market products traded by the firm.
Take ownership and maintenance of compliance policies, procedures, and records and assist with regulatory reporting and internal reviews where required.
Work closely with the Compliance team and other relevant stakeholders to contribute to change projects in line with agreed deadlines, escalating issues promptly.
Collaborate effectively with the wider Compliance Pillars to deliver one efficient compliance function to the wider business.
Managing enquiries to the Advisory team accurately and efficiently in line with agreed SLAs.
Contributing to various team working groups, owning allocated actions and ensuring these are completed within agreed timescales.
What We’re Looking For
You could be someone with some experience in compliance, risk, audit or operations within asset management looking for a role where you can use your skills to analyse documents or you may have experience in deciphering regulation, policies and standards.
Excellent attention to detail with a curious and proactive approach to learning.
Interest in understanding how asset managers are governed and overseen.
Comfortable using Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Good communication and organisational skills.
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
Please note that we reserve the right to remove adverts earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.