Head of Compliance Lincoln HomeLet Full time Permanent
Join our dynamic and rapidly growing team at Barbon, where innovation meets integrity. As a leader in tenant referencing and specialist lettings insurance, we thrive on energy, creativity, and a passion for excellence.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Head of Compliance to oversea and enhance our compliance framework in alignment with industry standards and regulations. This role is pivotal in ensuring that our business operations maintain the highest levels of integrity and ethics in a fast-paced environment.
If you're ready to take on a high challenging leadership role in a high-energy environment where your expertise can make a real difference, we want to hear from you. Apply now and become a key player in shaping the future of Barbon!
This role:
1. Carries operational responsibility for ensuring Barbon’s products and services and how they are delivered are in line with regulatory requirements and the Group’s policies and standards, in order to provide positive and fair outcomes for customers
2. Aids the business to grow and succeed in a compliant way, and aims to help the Division achieve the right balance between risk taking and control
3. Carries line management responsibility and a requirement to develop a team that delivers operational compliance 1LoD support to the Division, including FCA regulated complaints management.
This role requires a ‘hands on’ work ethic, undertakes key activities and manages a small team.
4. Act as risk and compliance focal point for Barbon and responsible for supporting delivery on the Divisional R&C agenda
5. Manage a team that helps support the business deliver on its priorities and manage escalation of compliance enquiries/issues both within the business and to the 2LoD in a timely manner
6. Drive greater ownership of 1LoD decision making through improving knowledge and expertise and developing the appropriate business tools
7. Ownership and responsibility for the product governance framework across the division ensuring the group’s processes incorporate the latest legislative and regulatory requirements. This includes product governance reporting to Group, completion of product reviews and management of FVA and TMS for products.
8. Work with 2LoD to understand the impact of changes in regulation and deliver on required activity within Barbon
9. Promote a collaborative, responsive and solution driven compliance culture that supports business growth
Undertake core risk and regulatory activities including:
10. Co-ordinating the review and update of Barbon’s risk and control assessment.
11. Undertakes specialist training & competency (including training on key policies and processes) and monitoring the completion of mandatory regulatory training and CPD.
12. Ensure relevant controls exist across the business and support/monitor compliance with FCA requirements and Group risk & compliance policies
13. Reviewing and ensuring key businesses processes and documentation putting the customer first, and meeting regulatory requirements
14. Responding to day-to-day compliance queries in an effective and timely manner
15. Undertaking regular 1LoD reviews and reviewing the output of QA reviews to identify deficiencies in local procedures or training and competency, and suggesting appropriate remedies to be undertaken
16. Logging managing and monitoring breaches and E&Os in line with FCA service standards & Group policies
17. Reviewing and signing-off financial promotions, ensuring communications are compliant and technically accurate
18. Reviewing products to ensuring they are in line with product governance requirements and deliver fair value for customers
19. Identifying and raising awareness of improvement areas through root cause analysis in respect of FCA regulated complaints and E&Os and ensure these are fed into business training
20. Providing information and support in connection with insurer audits and supporting the monitoring and closing out of key remedial actions
21. Providing information and support in connection with 2LoD Assurance Reviews and 3LoD Internal Audits and supporting the monitoring and closing out of key remedial actions
22. Providing support with Customer Due Diligence and escalating appropriately where there are potential or actual issues to the 2LoD
23. Producing reporting to support the SMF(s) and the ongoing management of risk and compliance in Barbon and specific reporting in respect of key areas e.g. Conduct Risk & TCF
24. Providing compliance support and guidance on business projects and involving the 2LoD as necessary or as required by 2LoD
25. Managing and develop the 1LoD R&C team and support their ongoing development Managing customer requests e.g. preparing commission disclosure requests; remuneration queries; DPA/SAR
26. Overseeing FCA regulated complaints
27. Overseeing letting agency management
Person specification
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
A’ Levels
Degree
Relevant financial services, insurance or compliance qualifications
Experience
A minimum of 5 years experience undertaking a similar role within an FCA regulated insurance environment
Experience of working collaboratively with the 2LoD
Track record of reviewing regulatory developments and supporting the delivery of regulatory improvements
Track record of interpreting and applying relevant regulation in a proportionate and appropriate way and discussing/explaining compliance matters in a clear way
Experience of delivering training
Experience of project management
Knowledge
A strong understanding of the regulatory framework in which the business operates.
Good level of understanding of the FCA handbook including:
28. ICOBS
29. PROD
30. DISP
31. SYSC
Skills
Strong relationship building
Strong and clear communication
Ability to influence
Ability to comfortably work ‘in the grey’
Strong problem solving
Ability to apply flexible thinking and to formulate effective solutions and implement them to deadline
Excellent attention to detail
Strong MS Office skills
Ability to collaborate with colleagues at all levels
Ability to take a pragmatic approach and to create a positive compliance culture
Project Management
Attitude
‘Hands on’ work ethic
Customer focused
Collaborative, pragmatic and solution driven
Strong moral compass
Open and honest
Objectivity – balance risk taking and control
Further information
As well as a competitive salary we offer the following benefits -
32. Competitive holiday allowance with the annual option to buy additional days
33. Death in Service benefit of x4 salary
34. Company pension scheme
35. Enhanced maternity and paternity leave packages
36. A flexible benefits package which allows you to add additional benefits to your overall package
37. Our benefits portal offers discounts on technology & electronics, cinemas, restaurants, days out, mortgage advice, travel and many more
38. Referral schemes
39. Discounted rates on PIB products
40. We offer a first-class employee benefits and welfare package to support our employees with financial management, cycle to work scheme, counselling support, health screening, will writing, menopause support, books, stopping smoking and much more
41. If supporting the local community, engaging with charities and having the opportunity to ‘give something back’ interests you, you have the opportunity to take an extra day to support this with a Volunteering day.
42. We also offer a wide range of discounts including a kids pass – giving you discount to over 4500 attractions and activities, discounts at hairdressers and beauticians, climate change projects with lots of other options to choose
43. PIB has a comprehensive learning & development framework, including professional study options and apprenticeships which are available to all employees, and which will support your career development
44. Being a part of our PIB Community Trust, we support fundraising where you can apply for grants from PIB Group towards your chosen charity
45. PIB Group are committed to improving their environmental impact in a responsible way. From the individual actions that our colleagues take every day through to installing the right facilities across our premises, there are many measures in place to help reduce PIB’s carbon footprint.