Compliance Advice Manager

Location West Sussex
Discipline: Audit, Risk & Compliance
Job type: Permanent
Contact email: alex@weareedenbrook.com
Job ref: J4731
Published: 21 days ago
New Compliance Advice Manager working with a rapidly growing financial services function. 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) background • Regulatory or Compliance certifications: e.g. CII, CISI, ICA, etc • Experience in Data Protection, SMCR, Retail Investment, Life Insurance, Pensions