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Senior Compliance Business Partner – Retail Banking

  • Location: Wales
  • Salary: £45,000 per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted almost 2 years ago

  • Sector: Compliance
  • Contact: Emilia Thomas
  • Expiry Date: 15 August 2022
  • Job Ref: ET/19332

​Great opportunity for a Senior Compliance Business Partner to join an excellent Building Society. Reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer this role is to partner with colleagues on FCA and GDPR Compliance, and conduct culture, supporting and enabling them to understand and apply it within their roles and business processes.

Key responsibilities:

•Develop and maintain strong working relationships to ensure early Compliance input to projects and Change initiatives within the various business areas

•Implementation of on-going monitoring and analysis to assess effectiveness of Compliance, Conduct and Data Protection practices across the Society.

•Promoting a strong compliance culture that is aligned with the broader Society culture and values and supports continuous improvement.

•Provide appropriate coaching to support knowledge and skills development of Compliance colleagues and wider colleagues across the Society as appropriate.

•Support the Chief Compliance Officer and Executive in management of regulatory notifications and permissions

Key Accountabilities:

•Provide a business partner service to the Society for regulatory compliance, conduct or data protection related issues or queries and use your Subject Matter Expertise to proactively add value and drive improvements

•Guide the business areas through Compliance, conduct and Data Protection challenges by providing proactive information and advice, taking account of commercial imperatives, constructively and robustly challenging business areas

•Regulatory Horizon Scanning - Identification and interpretation of related regulatory change relevant to Society activities and monitoring progress of the overall regulatory change portfolio. Providing focused oversight and support to Senior Management on high priority items.

•Provide regulatory SME input, assessment and opinions to business change initiative, including acquisition and integration projects at Functional project meetings and committees

•Produce reports (on a cyclical and requested basis) on the management of Risk & Compliance issues (for management and Board), constructively challenging the outputs of those reports and any associated actions.

•Lead the delivery of education on Compliance, Conduct and Data Protection issues where required i.e. deliver Compliance, Conduct and Data Protection training, advice and support to the 1st or 2nd lines of defence.

•Development of policies, processes and tools that direct FCA Compliance, Conduct and Data Protection activities across the Society.

Technical Expertise:

•3+ years experience in a 2nd line compliance function fulfilling an advisory role

•In depth knowledge of regulations impacting retail banking and mortgage business models, including payment services regulation

•Strong understanding of conduct culture

•Strong understanding of Operational Resilience

•understanding of compliance monitoring systems and approaches

•understanding of SMCR

Please note, should feedback not be received within 28 days due to the large volume of applications, unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful. However, we may be in touch with similar relevant opportunities.

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