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Head of Compliance Monitoring

  • Location: Manchester
  • Salary: Up to £85,000 + Bonus + Benefits per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted about 2 years ago

  • Sector: Compliance
  • Contact: Paul Sherlock
  • Contact Email: psherlock@merje.com
  • Expiry Date: 23 March 2022
  • Job Ref: PS/18679

​Our client is a well-respected financial organisation that are looking for an entrepreneurial Head of Compliance Monitoring to join the business. This is a strategic role in which you will lead compliance monitoring across multiple Group functions, providing independent 2nd line assurance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reporting into the SMF16, you will design and deliver a risk focussed, compliance monitoring plan – This will provide challenge and oversight of how the firm delivers fair customer outcomes and meets regulatory requirements.

• Identify high risk projects or business changes where compliance assurance will add value.

• Develop compliance monitoring techniques that identify key and emerging risk areas.

• Ongoing 2nd line assessment of regulatory and conduct risks aligned to business activity as well as supporting continual improvement of 1st line risk identification.

• Providing recommendations to the business based on observations and findings of the monitoring activity as well as reporting levels of compliance to management and Board risk committees.

The Ideal Candidate:

• You will manage a team of 3 Compliance Monitoring Officers, so previous experience in a senior managerial compliance monitoring position is essential.

• Extensive knowledge and experience of FCA regulations, including having worked directly with the regulator.

• Natural appetite and inquisitive mind for horizon-scanning that can think laterally about potential consequences for the company.