Regulatory Compliance Consultant

About Benchmark

Our award-winning, proprietary solutions cover regulatory, platform and investment services, and are designed to support advisers at every step of their journey - from starting and running a financial advice business more productively and effectively, to accelerating its growth and realising its value.
We support high quality financial advisers with our award-winning technology and support services.

And with our own Financial Advice business, we help families find solutions to meet their needs and aspirations and achieve peace of mind. By providing access to higher quality solutions, we make it easier for them to meet and exceed their goals.

Ensuring good client outcomes, with the client's interests central to decision making, is very important at Benchmark. Treating Customers Fairly principles are embedded within our organisation and we take responsibility for embracing and promoting our duty of care to all clients, including those who may be more vulnerable than others.

The base

You'll be based at home or our Broadlands Business Campus near Horsham in West Sussex. Without being in the city, a big, countryside campus means life will feel a little different. We support our offices by using cutting edge software and hardware and our spacious campus facilities mean there's a great working environment for the team. With an on-site restaurant, coffee shop and gym, our campus has much to offer. And commuters can relax on our dedicated regular shuttle bus to and from Horsham's main line train station.

Who we're looking for

The Regulatory Compliance Consultant's role reports to the Group Technical Compliance Manager, with responsibility for supporting the regulatory change and compliance advisory aspects of the Compliance Technical function. The role holder's primary responsibility is to assess and help operationalise regulatory requirements, both existing and new. You will provide practical insight, and assist decision makers within the Benchmark Capital Group to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, with specific focus on Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) outputs. This includes providing timely and practical regulatory guidance, regulatory research, and assistance to relevant stakeholders; their teams; and other compliance colleagues, on applicable regulatory requirements and industry best practice standards.

The role will be responsible for providing analysis; assessment; and documentation for regulatory initiatives of all sizes, following output from horizon-scanning activity.

You will also support projects and corporate initiatives, and must have experience solving regulatory compliance issues, bringing specialised perspectives, and be comfortable (when required) to lead regulatory projects and support all projects where regulatory guidance is required. The role holder will also be able to advise on creating solutions for the business which best integrate the need to meet regulatory requirements, with the needs of our customers; clients; and our business.

What You'll Do
- Assist the Group Technical Compliance Manager with regulatory change horizon scanning, to identify and diagnose material regulatory developments impacting all aspects of the Benchmark Capital business. This also includes maintaining medium-term horizon scanning to identify emerging regulatory risks to the Group, engaging with business contacts and other stakeholders (including Schroders) on issues raised.
- Support the Technical Compliance Manager to track, record, and communicate FCA and other bodies' regulatory outputs, as well as assist on assessing the relevance to the Group's FCA authorised firms.
- Following output from horizon scanning activity, provide regulatory analysis and document requirements for regulatory initiatives,
- Interact with all relevant business functions, and develop an understanding of each impacted area to advise on potential appropriate solutions.
- Assist with implementation of regulatory developments, working collaboratively with the business and compliance functions to facilitate appropriate impact assessments and gap analysis, and ensure relevant implementation requirements are executed to a good standard and in a timely manner.
- Providing timely and concise regulatory summaries and updates to stakeholders across the Benchmark Group, including producing a Quarterly Regulatory Change update.
- Assessing the impact of both existing regulations and new regulatory developments, and operationalise such regulatory requirements in a pragmatic and proportionate way.
- Assist in projects to provide compliance analysis and review of new business initiatives; developments, corporate projects, by providing support and guidance.
- Guide the assessment; development; and writing of new policies and procedures, to support operational areas of the business.
- Supporting the establishment of robust control frameworks and processes, to embed regulatory requirements throughout the business.