Group Compliance Monitoring Specialist

Benefact group; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A unique financial services organization located in Gloucester is seeking a Group Compliance Monitoring Specialist to oversee compliance monitoring across their businesses. This role focuses on ensuring alignment with regulatory standards set by the FCA and PRA. Candidates should possess understanding of regulatory frameworks and strong analytical skills. The position offers hybrid working, competitive salary, and benefits including a Group Personal Pension and generous annual leave.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

Generous annual bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Health and wellbeing benefits including private healthcare

£200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice

Employee Assistance Programme

Full study support for professional qualifications

Access to virtual GP

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Qualifications

• Previous experience in compliance monitoring or audit.
• Strong understanding of regulations applicable to financial services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct compliance monitoring reviews across the Group’s businesses.
• Liaise with stakeholders for each review to facilitate analysis.
• Discuss corrective actions to ensure compliance with rules.
• Monitor actions from compliance reviews to ensure follow-through.
• Contribute to compliance reports to senior management.

Skills

Understanding of the FCA and PRA regulatory framework

Compliance monitoring or audit skills in a financial service context

Interpersonal skills suitable to interact with stakeholders at all levels

Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

Attention to detail and high standards of accuracy

Excellent written communication skills for reporting

Ability to manage multiple ongoing reviews and manage own time

Job description

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Gloucester

Job Ref: 204316

About the role

Benefact Group are looking for a Group Compliance Monitoring Specialist to join our Gloucester office. As Group Compliance Monitoring Specialist you will be responsible for conducting compliance monitoring reviews across the Benefact Group, providing senior management with assurance that operations are aligned with regulatory requirement, particularly those set by the FCA, PRA, and financial crime legislation.

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic/parseropportunity career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group — where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

• Conducting compliance monitoring reviews across the Group’s businesses

• Liaising with stakeholders for each review to facilitate the analysis of relevant controls

• Discussing with the business where actions are required to correct or improve controls to ensure the business becomes / remains compliant with relevant rules and to deliver good customer outcomes, agreeing action owners and appropriate target dates for those actions to be completed

• Monitoring actions arising from Group Compliance monitoring activities to their conclusion, ensuring that the business has taken all action required of them to prevent reoccurrence of the finding

• Contributing to Group Compliance reports to senior management on the status of Group Compliance monitoring, including progression against the Group Compliance monitoring plan, summaries of final reports produced during the period and number of overdue actions arising from Group Compliance monitoring activity.

What you'll need to have

• Understanding of the FCA and PRA regulatory framework

• Compliance monitoring or audit skills in a financial service context превышают

• Interpersonal skills suitable to interact with stakeholders at all levels

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

• Attention to detail and high standards of accuracy

• Excellent written communication skills for reporting

• Ability to manage multiple ongoing reviews and manage own time

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it

• Hybrid working

• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

• Generous on target annual bonus scheme between 6% and24%

• 25days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme

• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance

• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice

• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Full study support to gain professional qualifications

• Access to virtual GP

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

About us

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people drivenونے to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.
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*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26