Associate Compliance Auditor Insurance · Haywards Heath ·

Collinson is the global, privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers. Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass, the world’s original and leading airport experiences programme.

We work with the world’s leading payment networks, over 1,400 banks, 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide. Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit, which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work. The success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 2,200 global colleagues.

We are looking for an experienced Compliance Auditor / Compliance Monitoring Officer to join the Compliance team within our Insurance Division. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong FCA regulatory knowledge and hands-on compliance assurance experience to play a key role in delivering a risk-based compliance monitoring programme across both internal operations and external insurance distribution partners.

About the role:

• Support the delivery of the division’s risk-based Compliance Monitoring Plan.
• Conduct audits across internal business functions as well as external agents and partners distributing insurance products.
• This is predominantly an office-based and remote audit role, with occasional domestic and European travel required.

Key responsibilities:

• Plan and deliver 2nd line risk-based compliance audits and monitoring reviews.
• Draft audit scopes aligned to regulatory requirements and business risk profiles.
• Conduct audit fieldwork including evidence reviews, stakeholder interviews, walkthroughs and control testing.
• Produce clear, high-quality audit reports with practical and proportionate recommendations.
• Identify root causes and support remediation activity.
• Track, validate and oversee the timely completion of audit actions.
• Build effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external distribution partners.
• Provide independent challenge while maintaining a collaborative approach.
• Support thematic reviews and regulatory readiness activity.
• Maintain accurate audit documentation, records and correspondence.
• Keep up to date with emerging regulatory developments and industry expectations.

You will be an experienced compliance professional with strong audit or monitoring capability gained within financial services, ideally insurance distribution. You will also have:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience within a 2nd line Compliance Assurance, Compliance Monitoring or Compliance Audit role.
• Strong knowledge of FCA regulation relevant to insurance distribution.
• Experience auditing third parties, intermediaries, agents or outsourced service providers.
• Strong analytical, investigative and report-writing skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• The ability to manage multiple audits and competing priorities effectively.
• High levels of integrity, professionalism and independence.
• Confidence handling challenging conversations and delivering constructive feedback.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and compliance/audit systems.

Desirable:

• ICA, CII or other relevant compliance qualifications.
• Exposure to MFSA or wider European regulatory frameworks.

What we offer:

• Hybrid working model.
• Opportunity to work across international insurance operations.
• Exposure to a broad and varied compliance assurance programme.
• Collaborative and supportive team environment.
• Professional development and ongoing learning opportunities.

If you are looking for a role where you can take ownership of audits, work closely with a wide range of stakeholders, and contribute to a strong compliance culture within a growing insurance business, we would like to hear from you.

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms. We are focused on continually evolving our purpose-driven, high-performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work.

Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led.