Head of Compliance - Banking, Savings, Investments

HEAD OF COMPLIANCE ADVICE BANKING, SAVINGS AND INVESTMENTS

Outsource UK are looking to recruit a Head of Compliance Advice with extensive experience in Banking, Savings, Investment Products, Business Regulation, Firm Regulation and Prudential Regulation. life cycle. This role will lead the business area activities to ensure they are able to operate effectively within this new regulatory environment without undue constraints on its Corporate Plan. This will involve giving regulatory advice on strategic objectives, products, systems, processes and structures. You will be working at a high profile financial services organisation based in Swindon who in return are looking to offer 6 month initial contract.

THE JOB:

The main purpose of this role is to work with Executive Directors and their teams to ensure that fair customer outcomes along the end-to-end customer journey and regulatory compliance are achieved. This role will lead the business area activities to ensure they are able to operate effectively within this new regulatory environment without undue constraints on its Corporate Plan.

This will involve:

- Giving regulatory advice on strategic objectives, products, systems, processes and structures
- Contribute to the development and delivery of the Corporate Plan, providing regulatory advice in relation to business strategies and plans.
- Analyse business model, strategies, existing compliance and external regulatory agenda to develop the scope of work to be completed by Group Compliance Advice.
- Deliver the Group Compliance Advice activities, managing key relationships and providing strategic compliance advice and reports to key stakeholders, including committees, on progress and results.
- Contribute to the development and agreement of current, planned and desired customer and compliance risk profile, providing guidance, support, validation and challenge, in relation to the assigned relationship portfolio.
- Lead the investigation and resolution of material/systemic regulatory issues and gain support for key customer and compliance risk management decisions.
- Input to the development and lead the implementation of Group Legal & Compliance divisional strategy.
- Lead Compliance Advice to ensure that resources are efficiently utilised and employees are engaged and enabled. This includes line management and development for Compliance Advice Senior Managers.
- Contribute to the development of regulatory expertise within Compliance Advice, and across the wider Group to ensure compliance with regulations and to embed an effective conduct and compliance culture

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

- Able to translate technical regulatory knowledge to engage and inform non-technical directors and senior managers, as well as to understand the application of regulation to the business areas they partner
- Be able to lead a business area's activities to ensure they operate effectively in a regulatory capacity without undue constraints on the corporate plan.
- Forward looking and strategic minded with an eye on current as well as emerging scenarios.
- Able to identify and weigh possible alternatives and make decisions based on customer and compliance risk
- Solid Leadership skills
- Compliance Analysis and Interpretation
- Compliance Risk Management
- Portfolio & Assignment Management
- Product Regulation
- Business Regulation
- Firm & Prudential Regulation
- Industry recognised professional qualification in compliance or risk management