Assurance Compliance Specialist

1 week ago


Taunton UK, Somerset, United Kingdom WPA Health Insurance Full time

Do you have knowledge and experience of financial services regulations and want a new challenge developing your skills in our Assurance team, supporting a growing not-for-profit insurance business to expand and enhance our regulatory compliance monitoring and risk management activities?


About WPA

WPA is a not-for-profit private healthcare provider with over 100 years’ putting our customers first, and with business growing, WPA is looking to expand and enhance our internal audit, risk and compliance capabilities with a dedicated and flexible assurance team.


As the only Which? Recommended Provider for private medical insurance, you’ll feel proud to work for WPA with our inclusive culture, career progression and generous benefits.


About the role

The role is as an assurance expert helping to build our new assurance team, among an open business culture of reflection and improvement. You’ll report to the Head of Compliance and focus on planning and delivering regulatory compliance monitoring within our WPA Assurance Plan.


There will be opportunities to perform wider assurance activities to support the Chief Risk Officer and Head of Internal Audit to maintain and enhance WPA’s risk management systems and ISO compliance activities.


The starting salary is £38,000 to £45,000 depending on experience. The role is full time (37 hours per week) and is based in our office on Blackbrook Business Park in Taunton, TA1 2PE. Suitable candidates must live within a commutable distance of our office in Taunton. The role is office-based, with some hybrid working opportunities on a non-contractual basis.


About you

This role is a fantastic opportunity for someone energetic with a curious and analytical mindset, attention to detail, and can engage successfully with different personalities. The ideal candidate will be familiar with FCA financial services regulations and have experience or skills that include:


· Ability to balance multiple pieces of ongoing review work at different stages of progress.

· Desire to deepen and expand your knowledge of WPA’s regulatory obligations.

· Great at managing relationships and engaging successfully with senior stakeholders across the business.

· Preparing focussed and clear written communication.

· Working flexibly reporting to multiple stakeholders as required, and

· Perhaps most importantly, an appetite to learn new things and help build a new team.


Benefits

We offer an attractive starting salary alongside our annual non-contractual bonus. Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and you will have access to our private medical insurance cover, a WPA cash plan and private remote GP services. Other benefits include purchasing additional annual leave, pension and length of service awards which make us stand out as an employer of choice. Social events are fun and frequent, including BBQs, annual parties, team building and sporting events.


Application support

If you could benefit from having any additional support with your application for whatever reason, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Personnel Services Team in confidence so that we can discuss it further. We are happy to help in any way we can.


We are all different, be yourself and thrive

WPA is a not-for-profit environmentally friendly organisation whose ethos is treating others as we would like to be treated including our fabulous team, customers, and local community. We hire great people; we believe in everyone and recognise that individual differences is what makes our team stronger.


Closing date: Please apply at your earliest convenience to avoid dissapointment.


Position open from: Immediately




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