Conduct & Regulatory Senior Manager

Business Unit: Risk
Salary range: £74,400 – £93,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: Remote – work from anywhere within the UK

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Our Team
Our team forms part of the wider Chief Compliance Office within the Risk function, and we’ve an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Conduct & Regulatory Senior Manager supervising the delivery of our Conduct Risk Assurance Plan. We’re looking for someone with proven experience in spearheading a team to achieve its goals, where you’ll play a vital role in supporting team members perform at their best.

What you’ll be doing
• People management activities including conducting Quarterly check ins, setting and monitoring progress against team and personal goals, developing team members to be the best version of themselves and ensuring everyone demonstrates expected behaviours in line with our Values and Purpose.
• Providing effective oversight and challenge to the team in the execution and delivery of assurance reviews. Ensuring reports are written clearly and concisely, accurately articulating the priority issues, with risks, root cause, actions and ratings reported appropriately and in line with methodology and Risk Management Framework.
• Identifying appropriate areas of focus for inclusion in the plan so that it’s concentrated on the most appropriate and higher priority risks, making changes as necessary.
• Completing the plan on time and to a high standard. Ensuring appropriate allocation of reviews and managing ongoing resources, resolving issues of stretch, and implementing any associated replanning activity.
• Building and maintaining high value and effective relationships with all stakeholders. This includes 1LoD and Internal Audit assurance teams to ensure alignment of activity and share findings and opinions and Business stakeholders to ensure issues and findings ‘land’ well, particularly where these are significant or complex.
• Identifying, developing, and implementing more effective ways of working within the team and where appropriate the wider risk function. This will include the Risk Assurance Framework and methodology to ensure it remains appropriate, fit for purpose, and reflects industry best practice.

We need you to have
• Experience of managing a team with varying levels of knowledge and expertise, managing resources and coaching/developing individuals in the delivery of high-quality outputs.
• An in-depth knowledge of conduct risk and applicable UK regulatory and industry rules and expectations.
• Experience of working in an assurance, risk, or audit environment.
• Track record of managing relationships and influencing change with a variety of senior stakeholders including those outside of direct area of influence.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential
• Broad knowledge of risk management disciplines and the three lines of defence model.
• Knowledge and understanding of UK Financial Services Industry.
• University degree or qualification in a Risk, Regulatory or Compliance specialism.

Red Hot Rewards
• Generous holidays – 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part-Time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there’s no waiting around, you’ll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We’re all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We’re putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people’s lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money’, underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we’re committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you’re successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years’ worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we’ll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you’ll be subject to periodic employment checks.