Compliance Officer

My client is looking for a Compliance Officer to help support their rapid growth. They are an innovative, exciting, and ambitious company and are going through a period of on-going growth and re-structure, and as such they are looking for a Compliance Officerto join a well-established, friendly and passionate team.

**Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities**:

- Completion of client’s supplier forms across the business group
- Policy creation, updates, reviews and conducting audits of those policies ensuring that the business & staff are complying with these
- Annual process and policy reviews - completing internal risk assessments and reporting to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) with suggestions and recommendations for actions
- GDPR/Data Protection & Data Security - keeping on top of new rules and ensuring our compliance, updating policies accordingly and organising any training required for the staff
- Responding to data information or deletion requests. Monitoring breeches and actioning any audit requests
- Responsible for reviewing and arranging mandatory and statutory staff training including H&S, First Aiders
- Process creation for compliance across the group
- Assisting with contracting and compliance checking for apprenticeships contracts and renewals - ensuring client policies and documentation are provided, checked and monitored for when they expire
- Auditing & testing Business Continuity Policies
- Assisting The Head of Apprenticeships with prepping for Ofsted inspections and ESFA visits
- Quality assurance - Creating, organising and reviewing our Quality Provision across Apprenticeships, Open Courses, In-house & Trainers
- ISO 90001 Renewals - Managing the compliance, monitoring and improvement activities
- Assisting with Awarding Body audits
- Assisting with onboarding of staff for reference requests, DBS checks and ensuring our Safer Recruitment Process is followed

**Skills & Experience Required**:

- Commercially aware, hands-on, analytical, and logical
- Good working knowledge of GDPR / Data Protection and legal requirements
- Experience of completing supplier forms - using online portals or editable PDF documents
- Experience of creating and maintaining policy documents using a version control system
- Good working knowledge of mandatory and statutory training required for businesses
- Tech savvy and IT proficient - Must be able to use Word and Excel to a high level
- Data / IT Security knowledge and understanding extremely advantageous
- Experience of apprenticeship compliance extremely advantageous
- Working at all times lawfully and in accordance with pre-defined regulatory, compliance and financial requirements, e.g. Data Protection, Health and Safety, Financial Conduct Authority Standards
- Resilience & adaptability within an ever changing fast paced business
- Thrives on challenges and working under pressure
- Be comfortable to take on new challenges & projects
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to make quick decisions under their realm of responsibility and authority
- Confidence to present findings and recommendations to SLT for business improvements
- Must be extremely organised, able to prioritise workloads to meet tight deadlines
- Previous experience working with a training provider advantageous
- Must have excellent written & verbal skills and confident with communicating with all levels of clients and stakeholders

**Package**

**Salary**: £26,000 to £32,000 pa dependent on experience and qualifications

**Bonus**: Annual bonus of up to 10% based on company profit and performance

**Hours**: Full time (37.5 hours) based in Coventry - Hybrid working considered for the right person