• • Full-time, permanent
  • Work remotely (temporarily due to Covid-19)
  • Competitive salary
  • Three years’ experience (preferred)

This is a superb opportunity to further your career in risk and compliance with a leading ethical financial institution.

Ecology Building Society is a successful member-owned building society with a clear environmental focus and a mission to promote sustainable development. We are committed to building a greener society through the provision of a range of simple, ethical savings products to support mortgages for properties and projects which respect the environment.

Role overview

The Risk & Compliance Policy & Framework Senior Manager is the Society’s professional support on all aspects of risk management, regulatory interpretation and guidance ensuring that appropriate frameworks and systems are designed, integrated, embedded and operating effectively and efficiently.

Main duties and areas of responsibility

• • • Ensure the Society complies with current and emerging regulation and meets its regulatory obligations (including Prudential Regulation) through sound regulatory judgement, advice and education.
    • Lead the Society’s regulatory horizon scanning and interpretation of new and amended legislative requirements, informing debate on Consultations where appropriate.
    • Drive the enhancement of the Society’s risk management frameworks and systems to ensure they are risk based, robust and fit for purpose.
    • Lead the Society’s annual review of risks ensuring key risks are identified, documented and adequately controlled.
    • Identify, remediate and mitigate risks for the Society (including fraud & financial crime, anti bribery & corruption, conduct, data protection, outsourcing & 3^rd party risks).
    • Support regulatory liaison, managing requests for information, investigation’s and breach reporting as appropriate.
    • Lead impact assessments to inform continuous improvement (for example breaches, risk events, sanctions levied on organisations).
    • Support the development of and drive the continuous enhancement of the risk & compliance methodology.
    • Drive the development and ongoing maintenance of risk & compliance owned policies and procedures.
    • Lead inputs into Society change projects from a risk & compliance perspective ensuring compliant and ethical delivery of services to our members.
    • Act as 2^nd line escalation point for review and sign off (for example DISP FOS complaints, reportable personal data breaches, PEPs and sanctions, data protection impact assessments).
    • Attendance at risk & compliance industry forums and user groups ensuring output is utilised and cascaded to inform best practice.
    • Contribute to a culture of risk and compliance awareness across the Society, developing understanding through ongoing education and up skilling.
    • Contribute to the design, development and implementation of a new suite of Management Information to enable production of meaningful and value-added MI to relevant committees to ensure risk and compliance priorities are known and understood.

  
  Qualifications: A relevant International Compliance Association (ICA) qualification is desirable.

  Working for Ecology

  Located in Silsden, West Yorkshire, our offices are an eco-friendly design and build. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer:

  • • • • Company events;
        • Company pension;
        • Cycle-to-work scheme;
        • On-site parking available;
        • Competitive holiday allowance with an annual holiday purchase scheme;
        • Life assurance*;
        • Profit sharing.
          * after 3 months qualifying service

   

  If you would like to join our team and pursue a rewarding career in a company that exists to make a difference, then please apply today, sending your CV and covering letter outlining your suitability for the role and alignment with our mission to [email protected].

  Closing date:  04 September 2020