Senior Compliance Business Partner

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Senior Compliance Business Partner

**About this role**

You’ll be responsible for a diverse range of areas that will support First Line risk owners in understanding compliance risks within their Business Areas and processes, and promote improvements in the quality of associated compliance controls and the delivery of good customer outcomes.

The Compliance Advisory team is an enabler for our business. We are a trusted partner that provides practical advice, advocacy, support and challenge to ensure our business can deliver on their objectives.

As a Senior Compliance Business Partner supporting the UK Card business, your role will require excellent communication and interpersonal skills, superb integrative thinking and problem solving, and a desire to help the business effectively manage compliance risk so we can deliver on our strategy.

If you have a passion for using risk management as a competitive advantage to drive tangible improvements in the understanding and managing of compliance risk, partnering with stakeholders to enable them to achieve their goals, whilst raising awareness of external factors across the industry to build into our decision making, then our Senior Compliance Business Partner role could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.

**What you’ll do**

Advise and partner with associates across the UK Business to ensure we can successfully deliver our business strategy while meeting our internal and external obligations in how we manage our compliance risks. You will do this by:

- Partnering with the business to ensure they are aware of their Legal and Regulatory obligations and understand internal policy expectations to enable them to effectively control for them
- Providing Compliance Advisory support to business partners to aid them in managing their processes, understanding the impacts of business change and new initiatives, and in responding to and managing customer impacting issues that may have a compliance impact
- Leading on key risk assessment activity, with a compliance lens, such as Process Level Assessments and Risk & Control Self Assessments. You will provide challenge on compliance risk and mitigating control suites
- Conducting regulatory reviews on key pieces of regulation such as GDPR and Consumer Duty to ensure that compliance risk is regularly reassessed and that business partners fully understand their obligations and how to effectively control for the risk.
- Supporting the First Line in the development of strong controls in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the compliance control environment
- Partnering with key stakeholders in the UK Legal department to support the team and the wider business in interpreting and understanding the compliance obligations the UK business faces
- Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with business stakeholders in order to influence decisions and aid them in understanding their compliance risks

**What we’re looking for**
- A skilled risk professional with broad compliance knowledge and experience working within financial or related services
- Experience of leading or undertaking risk and control assessments and providing effective assurance and challenge to a wide range of stakeholders across different business functions
- A curious and collaborative influencer that seeks to understand and has passion for the business objectives and partners with the business to achieve them
- A problem solver that can identify and recommend solutions to improve our control suites, mitigation activities and operational processes
- An ability to build trusted relationships with stakeholders across the business
- Effective at managing competing priorities, with a strong focus on delivering results in conjunction with considering the needs of the team
- You already hold or are interested in working towards a relevant ICA or IRM qualification (e.g. ICA Certificate in Compliance or IRM Certificate in Risk Management)

**Where and how you'll work**

This is a permanent position and is based in our Nottingham office.

We have a hybrid working model, so you’ll be based in our office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and can work from home on Monday and Friday.

Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we're open to talking about an arrangement that works for you.

**What’s in it for you**
- Bring us all this - and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation
- We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)
- Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance - with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loan