Kind Consultancy is working with a well-established Insurance business which is currently seeking a Senior Compliance Manager to join them in a full-time, permanent role paying circa £70,000 with a predominantly remote working model.

The Senior Compliance Manager will assist the Chief Risk Officer in ensuring all of the organisation's regulated entities comply with the regulatory requirements set by the FCA, PRA and internal policy standards, with key responsibilities including:

• Leading, managing and supporting the Senior Compliance Officer’s, ensuring that their day-to-day responsibilities are met, and projects delivered on time.
• Overall responsibility for the compliance dashboard, reviewing MI and prepare the Dashboard Exec Summary to identify and challenge strategic and conduct risk.
• Leading on regulatory approvals via the FCA Connect system, ensuring that employees requiring FCA / PRA approval are authorised in a timely manner to avoid regulatory censure and conduct risk issues.
• Ensuring that periodic regulatory returns are completed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Owning allocated compliance monitoring projects, undertaking compliance monitoring, conducting sample monitoring of the initial checks completed by the Senior Compliance Officer’s on a quarterly basis.
• Overseeing special projects – Audit action items, SM&CR requirements (Handover/Fit and Proper Assessments with PST,), FCA Directory, Client Assets, Social Media Reviews, FOS Complaints, Sanction List Monitoring and Threshold Conditions.
• Dealing with general and complex Compliance queries from across the business, preparing the appropriate information in response to these, such as compliance process queries, TCF Dashboard queries or compliance monitoring follow ups, queries regarding the requirements for SM&CR, regulatory queries
• Assisting the Chief Risk Officer in preparation for the Risk and Compliance Committee meetings.
• Maintaining a working knowledge of regulatory updates via training which can then be communicated to the Compliance team and wider business.
• Reviewing of in-house compliance training (online portal) to ensure accuracy or relevance of material, in order to improve the compliance culture across the Group.
• Taking the lead on investigating, reviewing and the creation of a final response in terms of FOS complaints.
• Taking the lead on the review and update of compliance process documentation and how-to guides
• Identifying training and development plans for direct reports as well as objective setting and performance management.

Our ideal candidate for the Senior Compliance Manager opportunity:

• Holds a relevant Compliance or Risk qualification
• Has 3- 5 years post qualification experience in Risk or Regulatory Compliance
• Possesses in-depth knowledge of the regulatory framework, FCA / PRA and AR regulations, with the ability to educate a wider business on Compliance matters
• Has previously managed a team and has experience of planning and overseeing projects
• Has a good understanding of Insurance sales processes and strong technical knowledge of Insurance Compliance
• Demonstrates a high level of attention to detail, excellent communication skills in both writing and speech, and strong leadership and managerial skills
• Is IT-literate and a confident user of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Is able to plan/complete implementations and contribute to culture change
• Has the ability to translate complex regulatory issues and concerns for a variety of audiences
• Displays well attuned inter-personal skills, including influencing stakeholders at all levels, team working and handling difficult relationships
• Demonstrates strong stakeholder management at all levels

If you have the skills, knowledge and experience we're looking for and you're interested in the Senior Compliance Manager position, please apply with an updated CV today.