Senior Compliance Consultant

Stratford upon Avon

Up to £80,000 + up to 25% annual bonus + excellent benefits

Join an award-winning company - including “Which?” Insurance Brand of the Year 2024 and Gallup’s Exceptional Place to Work 2024

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Guide and influence managers to ensure compliance with FCA rules.

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Hybrid role with 80% homeworking and 20% in Stratford-upon-Avon

About the role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Compliance Consultant to join our Compliance Consultancy team. In this pivotal role you’ll communicate regulatory standards to senior managers, and influence and challenge where appropriate to ensure NFU Mutual continues to remain within our regulatory risk appetite.

As part of our wider Risk function, our Compliance Consultancy team ensures we’re abiding by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulations which could impact NFU Mutual, so you’ll play a key part in maintaining our reputation and our integrity, guiding and supporting our business to ensure our customers remain at the heart of our business and that NFU Mutual delivers good customer outcomes.

Your leadership will be instrumental in managing and coaching the General Insurance section of the Compliance Consultancy team to interpret and communicate regulatory changes, partner with key stakeholders, and champion compliance best practice.

You’ll play a key part in facilitating FCA thematic reviews and anticipate and escalate actual and emerging conduct risks. You’ll assist in reporting to NFU Mutual’s key governance committees, providing valuable management information, regulatory updates and insights from consultancy activity. Additionally, you’ll recommend and implement procedural enhancements to optimise consultancy activities and increase efficiency.

Building strong, lasting relationships with colleagues from our Compliance Department, Risk Division, business stakeholders and professional bodies will be essential to enhance the value of consultancy work. You’ll also manage short-term projects and activities to meet specified standards and outcomes.

This role is based in our Tiddington Head office, just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon. However, we understand how important a positive work-life balance is, so to help you give your best, we offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support to work up to 80% of your hours from home.

About you:

You’ll have a detailed understanding of risk and compliance management, with demonstrable leadership skills and the ability to manage an engaged, proactive team of risk professionals.

A strong relationship builder, you will be able to demonstrate your ability to adapt yourself to suit different audiences and investigate issues in a diplomatic manner. You build effective networks at a senior level to help you engage and influence both internal and external stakeholders.

With a focus on interpreting and communicating regulation, you’re a risk professional who can communicate technical information effectively to non-technical audiences. You are a strong strategic thinker, with a track record of planning and implementing efficiencies within and across busy teams. You’re able to translate strategy into operational delivery and value enhancing solutions.

You take the initiative and thrive in a busy and diverse environment where you can use your expertise to make sound decisions, influencing and challenging both senior managers and operational teams in a collaborative manner. You are accomplished and self-assured at making pragmatic, commercially viable decisions in critical, often pressurised situations, recognising the value of data analytics to support your thinking.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards:

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

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Salary of up to £80,000 depending on experience

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Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)

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Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution

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28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme

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A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities

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Private medical insurance + options to add family members

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Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets

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£20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs

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Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more

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Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year

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Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme

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Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary

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Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

Working at NFU Mutual:

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.

Closing date: 8th November 2024.

Senior Compliance Consultant