Operational & Regulatory Monitoring Specialist

**Job Type**:10 months FTC (sabbatical cover)
**Hiring Manager**: Head of Portfolio & Regulatory Compliance, Asset Management

**Location**:This role can be based in either of our Edinburgh / Telford / Wythall (Birmingham) offices, with some time spent working from home and from time-to-time, travelling across Phoenix offices. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as an **Operational & Regulatory Monitoring Specialist**to join our Line 1 Asset Management Portfolio Compliance Team within the Business Control & Governance Function here at Phoenix Group

**Who are we?**

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

**The role**

The role will sit within AM Portfolio Compliance which is part of Phoenix Asset Management’s Business Control and Governance (BC&G) team. Established as a Line 1 control team, the team is responsible for delivering compliance support capability to assist Phoenix Group’s exciting investment strategy.

This is a key role in operationalising investment compliance controls and providing compliance advice guidance on business initiatives to support Phoenix Group’s exciting investment strategy. The role will be involved with reviewing new business and investment proposals, regulatory horizon tracking and implementation, overseeing controls around the management of key Compliance Risk topics. You will support the Head of Portfolio Compliance and other functions within Phoenix Asset Management (including Front Office, Middle Office, Operations, Business Control & Governance); Phoenix Group stakeholders (including Group Compliance, Operational Risk, Legal) and external third parties, in developing, implementing and maintaining an efficient and secure Line 1 portfolio and regulatory Compliance framework.

**Key Responsibilities**

Policy Advice and Implementation
- Ensure that business fully understands its obligations in relation to the Compliance policies and processes in place
- Point of contact for the business on any Compliance policy and process related queries, including Know Your Counterparty (KYC), Reverse KYC, Inside Information/wall crossing requests, information barriers, PA dealing and conflicts of interest.
- Advise the business on the introduction of Compliance processes as a result of new or updated AM initiatives or activities.
- Ensure that the Compliance policy framework (as developed by Line 2) is embedded within the business
- Support development and Implementation of procedures for the business to follow to ensure Compliance with the policies, including the provision of training where necessary.
- Monitor the adherence of the business to the policies and procedures on a day-to-day basis.

Regulatory Monitoring and Implementation
- Undertake regulatory change implementation work, impact assessments and work alongside the business with the development and implementation of new processes following the identification (by Line 2) of regulatory change that could impact AM.
- Liaise with Line 2 to get input on the details of regulatory developments.
- Oversee monitoring on activities undertaken by both the business and staff to identify any areas of potential non-compliance with regulatory requirements and Compliance policies across a range of topics, including: Trade and Transaction Reporting, Derivatives, Financial Crime (incl. AML/ITC), ESG, Market Conduct

Other responsibilities
- Compliance enabling advice to support new business and investment proposals, and participation in projects / committees to support approval
- Monitoring on activities undertaken by both the business and staff to identify any areas of potential non-compliance with regulatory requirements and Compliance policies across a range of topics, including:

- Data Protection
- Market abuse, including e-comms, call recordings and trade surveillance
- Personal account dealing
- Gifts and entertainment
- Outside business activities
- Best execution
- PA dealing
- ITC, ABC, AML
- Conflicts of interests
- Provide support to the business with the management of compliance issues, regulatory breaches and mandate breaches, to ensure timely escalation, resolution and mitigation.
- Conduct oversight and monitoring of the KYC and other associated checks carried out by the business on investee companies ahead of direct investments
- Manage and maintain Line 1 wall crossing processes of pertaining to inside information and confidential business information, and ensuring regulatory requirements are met.
- SMCR incl. Senior Management Function Mapping,