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Head of Compliance – SMF16

Head of Compliance is the most senior Compliance title in most Financial Services organisations – and as such recruiting the right one is of the utmost importance in running a successful regulated business. Holding the SMF16 senior management function means that Heads of Compliance are the individuals with overall responsibility for ensuring their firm is […]

Compliance Monitoring Manager

Compliance Monitoring Manager is a crucial title within a Financial Services firm’s Compliance function, with oversight of the assessment of how well Compliance policies and procedures are working in the business’s day to day activities. A growing challenger bank approached Kind Consultancy with a need to recruit a permanent Compliance Monitoring Manager as they expanded […]

Underwriters

Underwriters are the lifeblood of any Mortgage function within Financial Services and an essential part of the Credit Risk apparatus. Hiring underwriters with the right knowledge, skills and experience is vital to the success of any lending organisation. Kind Consultancy have a long working relationship with a large building society, who were experiencing an increase […]

Interim Deputy CRO

As a Chief Risk Officer steers the big picture of Risk management for a Financial Services organisation, a Deputy CRO can be vital in a large business for supporting, embedding and enacting good Risk practices. One of the largest groups of Financial Services Mortgage & Protection Networks in the UK contacted Kind Consultancy seeking an […]

Prudential & Credit Risk

A Building Society contacted Kind Consultancy looking to recruit a permanent Risk Manager who would be predominantly responsible for Prudential Risk and Credit Risk Management. The client wanted to run the search as a retained project, because they had worked with Kind on a recurring retained basis in the past and we had been successful […]

Internal Audit Team

The Chief Internal Auditor at an International Bank contacted Kind Consultancy looking to build out the Internal Audit team for their recently-expanded UK Bank. With a full team needing to be provided, we used a mix of methodologies, looking at industry-best specialists who were already known to us, active candidates in the marketplace, and identifying […]

Internal Audit – Prudential Risk

Kind Consultancy was contacted by the Chief Internal Auditor for the UK division of international bank which was having difficulty identifying an Internal Auditor with specific Prudential Risk knowledge and expertise. They were unable to use external agencies for permanent hires and this was a business critical role. As such they turned to Kind Consultancy, […]

Vulnerable Customers

One of our clients, a consumer finance business, reached out to us as they were experiencing a substantial increase in the number of Vulnerable Customers and associated complaint cases. The scale of the increase and the need for specialist skills was beyond their existing resource. We worked with the client to make a plan – […]

Checking In On Fair Value Preparations

Earlier this month the FCA published their findings from a review of Fair Value frameworks. Fair Value is one of the 4 outcomes on which firms will be assessed under Consumer Duty when it comes into effect in July. To help establish the regulator’s expectations, the FCA is providing feedback based on organisations’ proposals. For […]

What Are the 2023 IR35 Rule Changes?

If you’re a contractor in the UK, you’ve probably been paying close attention to discussions about the IR35 rules and have probably read and seen reports of possible IR35 rule changes set to happen in 2023. But what are the rule changes and how will they effect you? IR35 is not changing in 2023. In […]

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