Contract: 6/12 month FTC
Brighton: 1/2 days a week in office
Title: Compliance Advice & Assurance Manager
Salary/ Rate: £60,000/ £65,000 (basic)
New Compliance Advice & Assurance Manager working with a rapidly growing financial services firm. Reporting into the Head of Compliance, you will play a key role in championing Consumer Duty and scrutinising regulatory matters.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide sound, accurate advice on regulatory matters affecting the business, that will enable the business to operate in accordance with industry best practice as well as meeting regulatory standards.
* Provide input into the Compliance, Consumer Duty, Data Protection, & Financial Crime Risk Management Frameworks and Policies
* Keep up to date with regulatory change to ensure all applicable regulation and its impact on the business is identified at an early stage.
* Working closely with first line colleagues to help them understand fully their first line risk management/compliance responsibilities.
* Provide advice and guidance to the business on technical regulatory issues, utilising broad financial services knowledge to contribute to in-house policy changes, analysing the impact of regulatory changes, appreciating when potential issues require escalating, and ensuring the implementation of any required changes to internal policies/procedures
* Conduct research and provide subject matter expert advice on all regulatory matters: FCA Handbook, Data Protection, PRA regulation and have awareness of financial legislation.
* Meet regulatory/legislative timescales providing well-structured, well-considered summaries of proposed regulatory change to the business and collating responses to the regulator as required
* Manage regulatory contact such as regulatory returns, applications and data requests.
* To participate in, and at times lead, projects and initiatives in support of improving the processes and products offered to customers.
* To produce MI and regulatory update reports for presentation at various levels of committees including regulatory timeline updates to the Executive and the Board
Key Skills and Experience:
* Compliance within Financial Services (ideally insurance or investments) background
* Regulatory or Compliance certifications: e.g. CII, CISI, ICA, etc
* Experience in Compliance Advisory/ Business Partnering or Monitoring/ Assurance