Senior Regulatory Assurance Manager

Starting salary from £48,425 per annum dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package, and flexible working arrangements.

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Brighton/hybrid (6 days per month in the office)

Closing date: 14 July 2025

About us

More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.

It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.

Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.

We operate a hybrid working model, subject to government guidelines, where regular attendance in our Brighton office is required. Attendance in the office is team and role dependent.

Role

The Regulatory Assurance (RA) team provides objective opinion in relation to the quality of regulatory work and decisions across TPR, and therefore to the achievement of TPR’s statutory objectives. As well as joining a team which provides assurance on various regulatory activities across the whole of TPR, you’ll be joining at an exciting time too. TPR is on a new and exciting transformation journey, and during this period we must maintain our duties as a regulator. The Regulatory Assurance team has an important role to play in this. Ideally, you’ll be an experienced auditor, quality assurance manager, investigator, or regulator. You will use your knowledge and experience, to support the organisation, as we continue to provide quality assurance, with insight, to senior leaders.

This secondment opportunity has arisen due to progression within the team, something we’re very passionate and proud of. We’re looking for a Senior Assurance Manager to support the RA Business Lead to deliver an agile programme of core, consultative and live assurance reviews whilst coaching and developing the team. You’ll be encouraged to test new ways of working in a psychologically safe environment so that the team continues to evolve and iterate alongside TPR and the industry.

Our commitment to you: You’ll be an integral part of our team and immediately feel welcome. You’ll want to achieve personal development and growth and know that this is an ideal opportunity to broaden your understanding of TPR and knowledge of risk management and assurance. Our commitment to you is that you’ll get a detailed induction, clear guidance, line management support, regular 1:1’s with real-time feedback, plus coaching on the job. You’ll start by supporting ongoing reviews, and progress to leading reviews through others, once ready. A working knowledge of the pensions landscape is desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage, support and develop Assurance Managers to deliver objective and insightful opinions on the quality and consistency of regulatory intervention.
• Responsible for creation of the Regulatory Assurance Plan and support end-to-end delivery, on time.
• Critically challenge and gain senior leadership level consensus of actions to mitigate highlighted risks and agreement on owners to progress.
• Act as delegate for the RA Business Lead as and where necessary.
• Develop and promote strong relationships with other functions and senior colleagues.
• Apply technical knowledge, skills and experience to identify any risks, weaknesses or inconsistencies in regulatory interventions.
• Identify key risks and decisions, assess those against risk appetites and TPR’s statutory objectives in order to determine the level of assurance around that particular area.
• Identify weaknesses or risks in operational policies and procedures and recommend effective mitigations using solid problem-solving skills.
• Write high quality reports, with insight, in plain English. Deliver assurance views to ExCo, Board and ARAC, providing practical and effective recommendations for the mitigation of any risks or weaknesses identified.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders throughout the review process, responding to challenges to review outcomes raised by Heads of, Directors, ExCo, Board and ARAC.
• Ensure that each review is conducted with attention to detail and accuracy retaining an appropriate record of the investigation/work and evidence.
• Ensure that critical risks are escalated to ExCo and ARAC through the RA Business Lead.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement, in a psychologically safe environment.

Essential and Desirable Criteria

• Expert technical knowledge of pensions, regulation, and decision-making, with the ability to test decisions against regulatory principles.
• Proven experience in managing and developing teams, including mentoring and supporting team members to deliver high-quality work.
• Advanced investigation and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex regulatory interventions and identify trends, behaviours, and risks.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage end-to-end reviews, prioritise workloads, and meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and influencing decision-making at all levels.
• Ability to write high-quality, insightful reports for executive audiences, providing practical and effective recommendations for risk mitigation and continuous improvement.

Person Specification

• Ability to prioritise and use initiative.
• Calm under pressure.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Communication skills at all levels.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.

Salary and Benefits

As well as a salary starting from £48,425 per annum, we offer:

• Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pension's world.
• Discretionary bonus arrangements.
• Access to performance related pay progression.
• 25 days annual leave provision.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Development opportunities.
• Enhanced parental leave arrangements.
• A free employee assistance programme.
• An excellent office location in Brighton.

How to apply

To apply please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk quoting role reference number 231000 along with:

• A covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements.
• A copy of your CV.
• Details of your notice period.

Current employees in their first 12 months of employment who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.

We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview.

Please be aware, as we are transitioning into a hybrid working model, we are currently holding interviews through Microsoft Teams.

In accordance with Home Office guidance, the successful candidate will be required to provide their right to work in the UK before they start employment. Unfortunately, TPR is not able to offer sponsorship at the time. TPR is a UK-based organisation with a working location in Brighton, candidates must live in the UK to be employed by us.

The Pensions Regulator is an arm’s length government body and part of the public service. Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory background screening checks and criminal record checks (BPSS).

If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk.