Consultant - Monitoring and Oversight

4 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom abrdn Full time

Job Description

Job Title: Monitoring & Oversight Consultant

**Job Type**: Permanent

Location: London or Edinburgh (with blended home working)

Reports to: Monitoring & Oversight Manager

Function: Enterprise Risk, Risk & Compliance

Are you curious, highly organised, with an eye for detail?

Do you seek a role where you can use your knowledge and experience to improve customer outcomes?

If so, we want to hear from you

About the role

We are seeking a Consultant to join our Monitoring & Oversight team on a permanent basis.

This role offers the chance to be part of a team providing assurance to senior management over the firm’s compliance with key regulations, and helping management to manage regulatory risk.

The role will be conducting focussed reviews of business activities to assess the regulatory compliance and identify risk exposures. You will work with business management to agree actions to address any weaknesses identified and agree target dates for remediation to improve the control environment.

Main Responsibilities:

- Carrying out all aspects of Monitoring & Oversight (M&O) reviews including: determining scope and agreeing terms of reference, fieldwork and analysis, drafting reports and agreeing actions with business management.
- Supporting the delivery of the M&O plan through timely execution of reviews and ensuring that all work meets the appropriate quality standards.
- Follow up of issues raised to ensure that actions have been completed within the agreed target dates to address the issues.
- Liaising with the Risk & Compliance Business Partnering Teams regarding emerging themes and review findings to incorporate these into the advice provided to the business.
- Providing input into the development and documentation of the M&O Plan using a defined and robust risk-based methodology.
- Contributing to Monitoring & Oversight team activities_
- Drafting and submitting board and committee reporting on the team’s activities.
- Promoting and encouraging a risk culture that underpins abrdn’s values and drives risk awareness and accountability within the business.
- Supporting the wider Risk & Compliance function in the delivery of functional activities where required and where appropriate.

Key knowledge, Skills & Experience

Required:

- Track record in delivering clear and concise written and oral communications.
- Highly credible and proactive communicator who can engage internally and externally.
- Experience of undertaking compliance monitoring reviews to a high level of quality and consistency within a demanding environment.
- Knowledge of current and emerging regulatory compliance ‘hot topics’ and market trends, methods and tools in respect of monitoring & oversight.
- Degree qualified or equivalent professional experience.

Desirable:

- Experience of using data tools to optimise compliance monitoring and oversight testing and enhancing team activities such as reporting.
- Good risk management and regulatory compliance knowledge within the asset management industry, including a good understanding of UK, EU and other international regulatory requirements.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense - this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

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