Job Description:
This role will be responsible for delivering Regulatory Advice, with a leading regulatory consultancy, specialising in the mortgages, consumer credit and insurance markets (FCA) (MCOB, CONC and ICOB)
Key responsibilities include:
- Working with clients on the delivery of high quality regulatory risk / compliance advice around topics including; suitability, product governance, regulatory change, financial promotions, complaint handling
- Delivering client projects
- Drafting and maintaining policies, procedures and compliance monitoring programmes
- Assisting clients with regulatory control changes and process improvements – including authorisation applications and variations of permissions
- Arrange and prepare for client meetings
- Manage the client files in relation to document and data tracking
Business development task:
- Work successfully with clients and contacts to build strong, long term relationships within the industry
- Investigate ways of improving the client base through market research and identifying new prospective clients to develop
- Attend industry relevant events to both further grow your network and also promote the firm’s brand
- Work closely with the team on marketing and business development initiatives
Education and skill set:
- Educated to degree level
- Minimum 2 years relevant compliance-related experience gained at a financial institution, legal practice, consultancy and/or the regulator –Strong technical knowledge of mortgages, consumer credit and insurance (FCA focussed)
- Experience translating regulatory rules and guidance into meaningful, fit-for-purpose and pragmatic solutions and advice
- Stakeholder management experience (if from Professional Services, experience of managing clients ideally)
- You will need to be flexible, hands-on and willing to tackle a broad range of matters, which may be outside your main areas of expertise
- Excellent oral and written skills
- Ability to have a high attention to detail – often working with complex information and being able to summarise into meaningful information
- Entrepreneurial mind set and ‘can do’ attitude