Firm Compliance Partner - Quilter in London

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £141.2 billion in customer investments (as of December 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management.

The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth. Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning - offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues. Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of compliance professionals who will form an in depth and solid relationship with our AR Firm Principals, understanding their business and working with them to ensure their firm and the network remains safe. You will have the opportunity to apply your experience in working with AR Firms to coach and support them and develop unique action plans, bespoke to each individual firm within your own panel of up to 40 AR firms.

Working as part of the Supervision and Oversight Team, training and ongoing development is a priority and will be continuous to ensure that you have the confidence to deliver against the requirements of the role, but importantly you develop and grow personally. As a Firm Compliance Partner in Quilter Financial Planning, your role is to deliver regulatory oversight to appointed representative firms and registered Individuals and ensure Treating Customers Fairly principles are embedded.

The role is a compliance function that strives to maintain professional safety in the Quilter Financial Planning group, via successful discharge of supervisory responsibilities. The identification and resolution of customer, regulatory, reputational, and operational risks are a key component in establishing an effective control function.

With your own panel of firms, you will review AR bespoke characteristics and behaviours identified by risk assessment as requiring supervision. You will build strong relationships with AR Principals and work with them to help them achieve effective governance of their AR Firms & Advisers whilst adhering to Network standards. This will be achieved through a program of both diarised annual assessments and bespoke firm visits and interactions, with you acting as the main compliance contact for the firm.

Working with the firm and other QFP departments, you will identify areas of concern in a firm's current processes, set action plans and agree timescales for these to be rectified. The role will also see you manage areas of risk to within Network appetite and identify and investigate areas of risk through Supervisory activity as well as review and assess risk assessment results and risk analysis data to identify AR firm and adviser risk and apply appropriate controls.

You will conduct bespoke inspection visits, complete reports, provide coaching and feedback, identify risks and escalate any identified failings through to the Supervisions & Oversight Manager, use the correct escalation channels and manage identified issues to conclusion. This is a field and home-based role with an average of 2 days a week in the field of which you will be responsible for planning and scheduling your own firm visits.

Our ideal candidate will be able to bring a high-level of experience within field supervision or compliance monitoring and be a competent assessor for firms and advisers. You will be a strong relationship builder and confident communicator, particularly skilled in questioning, and be able to display sound judgment when assessing risks and developing action plans. You will also have a strong analytical approach and inquisitive nature.

You will have experience of Network/National and IFA/restricted advice models and QCF Level 4 or equivalent. A Compliance & Risk qualification is essential for this position.

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.

Core Benefits:

• Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
• Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
• Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
• Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
• Life Assurance: 4x your salary.
• Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
• Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only.

In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.