compliance officer Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber, England
Job description
Location: Bradford
Salary:
Closing Date: Thursday 13 July 2023
About Us:
Vanquis Banking Group has a rich history dating back to 1880. The company was founded in Bradford by Joshua Kelley Waddilove as The Provident Clothing and Supply Company to help people access finance and goods who couldn’t from traditional lenders.
Today, Vanquis Banking Group is a FTSE All Share company listed on the London Stock Exchange with around 1.6 million customers and plays the same role in people’s lives today, as it did when it was founded.
Vanquis Banking Group is a unified group made up of two brands: Vanquis (cards and loans) and Moneybarn (vehicle finance). While they offer different products and services, they share the common purpose and customer-centric values at the heart of our group. We understand our customers are real people with varied life experiences, so everything we do from our products to our customer experience is designed with this in mind.
You and Your Team:
We are seeking an experienced Compliance Advice Manager to join us at Vanquis Banking Group.
Reporting to the Senior Compliance Advice Manager, you will provide regulatory and conduct advice to all business functions across Vanquis Banking Group to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and good customer outcomes.
In your day-to-day role as a Compliance Advice Manager, you will:
- Assess and advise on the impact of regulations on business policies, processes and procedures, change programmes and customer facing material taking into account FCA and PRA rules, regulations and guidelines.
- Review regulatory and conduct risk events, providing advice/guidance and assisting the business with developing action plans where there is regulatory or customer impact, including remediation
- Review and input on Committee papers
- Ensure that all appropriate marketing materials, outputs, media and documentation produced by the business are approved as complying with the regulatory requirements
- Provide coaching and training to stakeholders within the business in order to upskill them on regulatory requirements and what good customer outcomes look like
- Inform the Senior Compliance Advice Manager/HOF of Regulatory breaches and/or notification events
- Represent Compliance Advice on change projects and at senior management team meetings to ensure regulatory requirements are identified, understood and addressed and that any regulatory and conduct risks are adequately mitigated
What you will bring to the team:
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal used to direct, persuade and influence others, including articulating complex regulation and risk in a clear manner and writing reports to escalate issues and risks where necessary
- The ability to assimilate and make sense of new information quickly, recognising when further guidance is required
- Flexibility and good time management skills will also be required to spread your time between BAU compliance advice, project work and personal development, often working to tight deadlines
- Ability to be a credible face of compliance both internally and externally
- Experience of working in a FCA regulated firm is essential
- PC literacy in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Why join Vanquis Banking Group?
The satisfaction of working for a successful and ethical business who are here to help people is a big benefit of joining us, but it is not the only one. We will invest in your development, giving you the support and training to become better and better at your job. We take the work/life balance seriously, with plenty of flexible working options. Working in a bright and refreshingly relaxed environment, you will find your opinions are valued and listened to.
On top of all this, we will give you a package including:
- Competitive base salary
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Hybrid working
- Private Medical Cover
- Up to 30 days holidays (dependant on Length of service) in addition to bank holidays
- Pension Scheme with matched company contributions up to 5%
- Extensive opportunities for personal and career development
- Opportunity to grow, develop and learn
- Colleague Perks at Work discount platform
- Season ticket loan
- One paid day to ‘give back’ to local communities or chosen charity
We strive to constantly improve the way we look after our people and have created an environment where everyone feels valued and can be themselves. We know that by having a better, more inclusive culture and a diverse group of colleagues, we can support our customers and each other in the best way possible. We also believe this goes a long way to helping us live our purpose and defines why we are here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.
We are an equal opportunities employer, and we want people to join us no matter how they identify, their sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.
We want to attract and retain the best people. So, we make sure that, if people need it, they are given all the extra support and reasonable adjustments to take part in any part of our application or interview process. We have also got lots of colleagues who choose to work flexibly, so please feel free to talk to us about how you prefer to work at any time.
