Head of First Line Compliance

6 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Somerset Bridge Group Full time

Location - Bristol

Employment Type - Full Time - Permanent

Salary - Competitive Package

Hours Per Week - 37.5

Somerset Bridge Group are looking for a Head of Compliance and Risk to manage first line governance, risk and compliance, embedding processes and developing capabilities that continually improve the provision of GRC services to Somerset Bridge Insurance Services Ltd and Somerset Bridge Group.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Ensuring SBISL (and appointed representatives) foster a culture of rigorous thinking and controls to satisfy SBG risk appetite statements and enable sustainable business growth.
- Creating/maintaining department-wide solutions, polices, and standards to keep up with emerging technologies, industry trends, and regulatory change.
- Accountable for first line risk and assurance governance objectives, ensuring accurate management information and reporting from Executive Operational committees through to Board.
- Leading and mentoring a small team, facilitating good teamwork dynamics and embedding good practice across SBISL and the group.
- Production of SBISL Fair Value Assessments.
- Attendee of various risk and governance committees, such as Pricing & Product and Consumer Committees.
- Ensuring Operational Resilience, Wind Down Planning and Business Continuity Planning is kept up to date and satisfies regulatory requirements.
- Ensure the compliance processes, procedures and all relevant FCA CMA and ICO requirements are met.
- Certified person as part of SM&CR.

**Required Skills/Experience**:

- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to communicate with a wide range of people and adapt to different cultures.
- Strong collaboration, conflict resolution, influencing and negotiation skills.
- Experience of working in Committee structures
- Ethical, focused on treating customers fairly and delivering good customer outcomes.
- Respect for customer and business confidentiality
- Confident, self-motivated and enthusiastic team player.
- Technical regulatory knowledge.
- Able to travel to South Africa.
- Significant Risk and Controls experience in a highly regulated business environment, ideally gained in the Insurance industry.
- Experience in leading, managing and delivering governance, risk and assurance initiatives.
- Leadership capability, with experience of completing complex work of a high standard to senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability in strong verbal and written communication skills to interface with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to engage people through leading by example and cultivating a culture of transparency and curiosity.

Our Benefits:

- Hybrid working - 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days over 2 years’ service and 30 days after 5 years’ service. Plus bank holidays
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Pension scheme - 5% employee, 6% employer
- Flexi-time
- Healthcare Cash Plan - claim cashback on a variety of everyday healthcare costs
- 100’s of exclusive retailer discounts
- Professional wellbeing, health & fitness app - Wrkit
- Enhanced parental leave, including time off for IVF appointments
- Religious bank holidays - if you don’t celebrate Christmas and Easter, you can use these annual leave days on other occasions throughout the year.
- Life Assurance - 4 times your salary
- 25% Car Insurance Discount
- 20% Travel Insurance Discount
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Referral Scheme
- Community support day
- Christmas and Summer parties

Working at SBG

At Somerset Bridge Group we aim to build a sustainable and innovative business focused on underwriting, broking and claims handling of UK motor insurance, offering transparent products and an efficient and fair service to our policy holders.

We are very proud to have been awarded a Silver Accreditation from Investors in People We recognise that all of our people contribute to our success. That's why we are always looking for talented people to join our team - people who share our vision, who are passionate about what they do, and who want to be part of something special.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Somerset Bridge Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic factors or other characteristics protected by law. SBG makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, skills and business requirements.

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