Compliance Lead- Consumer Credit - CONC

Compliance Lead - Consumer Financial
Permanent
Location: Reading Hybrid (2 days per week office based 3 days home based)

Purpose of the role:

The purpose of this role is to provide independent challenge, oversight and practical guidance to the company's first line business areas with regards to the operation of its financial services products.

This will include both conducting formal compliance reviews in line with the monitoring plan, working with the business to identify financial services-related compliance and conduct risks faced, and provide guidance into the design and implementation of controls.

What we are looking for:

• Experienced compliance professional specialising in consumer credit.
• Strong knowledge of CONC essential
• Knowledge of ICOB is an added advantage
• Deep understanding of UK financial services regulation, be skilled at explaining requirements in straightforward/practical terms and provide pragmatic and proportionate guidance on appropriate systems and controls to mitigate any regulatory/conduct risks arising
• A strong understanding of regulatory and conduct risk management practices in financial services, and what it means to deliver good customer outcomes across a consumer credit product life cycle.
• Experienced in leading on the design and delivery of formal compliance reviews. You'll have excellent planning, report writing and stakeholder management skills;
• Experienced in evaluating policies, procedures, processes and internal controls, and their effectiveness;
• Experienced in drafting compliance owned policies;
• Experience in overseeing compliance issue management and remediation activities, and understanding appropriate root cause analysis practices

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