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Group Conduct Officer / Business Partner Job in Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Job Description
Optimise are recruiting for a Group Conduct Officer to join our Clients Nationwide Compliance team. This role can be based from any of their 40 offices across the UK and will involve working with a wide range of senior stakeholders across the partnered businesses and working with other areas of GRC such as Group Risk & Assurance.
This role also plays an important role in the identification, escalation and management of regulatory issues and breaches.
Responsibilities:
Effective regulatory business partnering, advice and oversight is key to strengthening 1LOD capability, making sure new acquisitions meet their requirements and delivering GRC’s oversight role and the company’s overarching governance.
* Providing guidance and advice on existing and future regulation
* Delivering briefings and training on key regulatory topics and issues
* Guidance and advice on improvement actions, potential breaches and root cause analysis
* Reviewing compliance and business performance MI to aid challenge
* Ensuring a regulatory perspective is brought to key business forums, initiatives and projects
* Providing a key input to the firm’s assessment of regulatory risks as part of its ERM framework
* Supporting business Senior Management Function and Certified individuals as part of Senior Managers and Certification Regime
* guidance and advice following reviews of the business from internal or external sources
* support and guide the businesses with integration related activities.
Experience:
* Have excellent communication (verbal and written) and be an effective ‘regulatory translator’ i.e. take complex regulation and make it accessible, understandable and relevant to the business so they have clarity on what is required, and what they need to do
* Be solution orientated
* Have attention to detail but have the ability to take a high-level view
* Deliver engaging, practically orientated compliance training
* Have excellent stakeholder management skills and be able to build and maintain strong relationships with the business, while also maintaining an appropriate level of professional distance
* Be able to act as a ‘critical friend’ to the business, delivering constructive challenge and identifying solutions to address issues that are identified
* Have a strong understanding of the UK’s regulatory regime as it applies to general insurance activities
* Travel to a range of UK destinations.
Ideal person profile
1. Has previous experience of undertaking a similar compliance business partnering role ideally in other commercial insurance brokers. However, candidates from commercial Insurers may be considered.
2. Likely to have 3-5 years compliance business partnering experience covering core areas such as T&C, ICOBS, Conduct Risk, COI, financial promotions, complaints, gifts and hospitality, SMCR, regulatory relationships, product governance, incentives etc.
3. Is a confident, persuasive and articulate communicator and capable of robust dialogue;
4. Strong technical, practical and working knowledge of FCA GI regulation including the IDD, ideally with experience of sales to both commercial and consumer customers primarily on a direct basis.
5. Knowledge of other relevant regulation/legislation such as GDPR and financial sanctions are required, and a basic understanding of risk management principles would be beneficial;
6. Likely to be educated to degree level and ACII or compliance qualification would be an advantage.
If you wish to work for a company that truly puts people at the heart of their organisation, then we would love to hear from you. They offer a flexible working policy, and the management teams will talk to you about how that would meet both your flexible working needs and those of the business and role you are applying for. We would love to hear from you if you want to hear more about this opportunity.
Our client pride themselves as being an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. They do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Category: Accounting/Financial/Insurance
City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands (County)
Country: United Kingdom
Salary: £55000 – £75000/annum Flexible working policy
Benefits: Flexible working policy
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