Regulatory Assurance

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 298382**Salary**:

- £47,015- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Other- R&O 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- GRA**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Brighton, South East England, BN1 3DWAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**About us**

More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.

Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.

It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.

Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.

**Job description**:
**Role**

Regulatory Assurance (RA) team provides objective assurance in relation to the quality of regulatory work and decisions across TPR, and therefore to the achievement of TPR’s statutory objectives.

The role of Senior Case Manager is to work with the RA Business Lead and Case Reviewers to deliver a programme of core, consultative and live assurance reviews to assess whether risks to workplace pensions are being identified, mitigated and managed effectively by TPR.

**Responsibilities**
- Manage, support and develop Case Reviewers to deliver objective and fully informed views on the quality and consistency of regulatory intervention
- Responsible for end-to-end delivery of Regulatory Assurance reviews
- Critically challenge and gain senior leadership level consensus of actions to mitigate highlighted risks and agreement on owners to progress
- Act as delegate for the RA Business Lead as and where necessary.
- Develop and promote strong relationships with other functions and staff
- Identify key risks and decisions, assess those against risk appetites and TPR’s statutory objectives in order to determine the level of assurance around that particular area
- Identify weaknesses or risks in operational policies and procedures and recommend effective mitigations using solid problem-solving skills
- Write reports and deliver assurance views to ExCo, Board and ARAC, providing practical and effective recommendations for the mitigation of any risks or weaknesses identified
- Engage with relevant stakeholders throughout the review process, responding to challenges to review outcomes raised by Heads of, Directors, ExCo, Board and ARAC
- Ensure that each review is conducted with attention to detail and accuracy retaining an appropriate record of the investigation and evidence
- Ensure that critical risks are escalated to ExCo and ARAC through the RA Business Lead

**Person specification**:
**Essential and Desirable Criteria**

**Essential Criteria**
- Ability to deliver - Demonstrable project management, prioritisation, and end to end delivery skills
- Communication - Expert verbal and written reporting skills. Ability to critically challenge, negotiate & influence
- Engagement - Strong engagement, teamwork & relationship building skills
- People management - Experience mentoring, supporting, and managing

**Desirable**
- Technical knowledge - Expert understanding of pensions, regulation and decision making.

**Person Specification**
- Proactive and flexible
- Can do approach
- Ability to prioritise and use initiative
- Calm under pressure
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Communication skills at all levels
- Attention to detail and accuracy

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £47,015, Pensions Regulator contributes £12,694 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.**Salary and benefits**

As well as a starting salary from £47,015, we offer:

- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- discretionary bonus arrangements
- access to performance related pay progression
- 25 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrange