Contract - Compliance & Risk Department Manager

At Honda we embrace inclusion in our various policies, so whilst our contracts state that the hours are as required to fulfil the role with a minimum of 35 hours per week, we offer flexibility for when you work. The regular office hours are 08:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 – 13:00 on a Friday. However, we offer flexibility of when you work with our daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement. Whilst there is no contractual right to work from home, the flexibility we offer is that you can request to work from home for a maximum of 50% of the working days in any one month, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office.

Role: The role will be within the HFE Risk and Compliance Department reporting into the Head of Risk and Compliance. Responsibilities will include day to day management activity, regulatory advice, risk management, internal and external audit activity and business strategy planning.

Main Responsibilities:

• Attending and participating in departmental management meetings.
• Manage and deliver the operational Compliance and Risk function to ensure HFE meets all regulatory requirements and guidance through the ongoing review of existing processes, procedures and controls and enhancement of changes where required.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of ongoing regulatory change including the impact on HFE.
• Provision of advice and guidance to the business on technical compliance matters.
• Responsible for the continual embedding of compliance policies, processes, procedures and governance which requires close collaboration with or execution by the business and in particular, Consumer Duty.
• Oversight of the annual Compliance Monitoring Plan.
• Deputising for the Head of Risk and Compliance and acting as a designated contact point for the Financial Conduct Authority.
• Oversight for ensuring all annual and ad hoc regulatory reporting obligations are satisfied and completed by their due date.
• The embedding of the operational risk and control framework across the HFE business.
• Oversight of the 1st line of defence activities to ensure that the appropriate controls and QA are in place across the operational business.
• Working with HFE business units to deliver good customer outcomes across all daily activities.
• Co-ordinating the production of regular, accurate and timely Management Information and acting as deputy chair of the Risk and Compliance Committee.
• Assisting in the collation of reports where necessary to the wider HME group, including a Compliance Report for the Board of Directors.
• Conducting compliance risk assessments to detect process gaps and inconsistencies.
• Supervising the workload of the Compliance Department associates.
• Have oversight of the business breaches and operational incidents including managing escalation and reporting as required.

Qualifications, skills and experience:

• Ability to assess whether the application of regulatory rules and standards is appropriate.
• Strong Regulatory Knowledge to ideally include: CONC, PRIN, SYSC, DISP, SUP.
• Ability to provide accurate and concise advice to the business.
• Strong analytical skills.
• A strong communicator, able to build key relationships both internally and externally.
• Ability to interpret regulatory rules and guidance as they apply to HFE.
• Good knowledge and use of Microsoft office programs and IT environments.

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