Our client is seeking an experienced financial professional to bring leadership to its financial compliance function. This role combines technical financial analysis, regulatory oversight, risk assessment, and stakeholder engagement, with responsibility for monitoring the financial health and compliance of regulated entities.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and oversee the financial compliance function.
- Monitor the financial position and ongoing compliance of regulated businesses.
- Review regulatory returns, financial statements, management accounts, and other financial information.
- Analyse financial data to identify trends, emerging risks, and areas of concern.
- Assess capital adequacy, liquidity, solvency, and safeguarding arrangements.
- Evaluate licence applications, business plans, and financial forecasts.
- Support supervisory and licensing decisions through analysis and recommendations.
- Conduct desk-based reviews and on-site assessments of financial controls and governance frameworks.
- Identify potential indicators of financial crime and escalate concerns where appropriate.
- Produce financial intelligence, management information, and regulatory reports.
- Contribute to policy development, process improvements, and automation initiatives.
- Develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
What You’ll Need
- Strong financial analysis, reporting, and risk assessment experience.
- Ability to interpret complex financial information and communicate clear conclusions.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and broader Microsoft Office skills.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
- High attention to detail and sound professional judgement.
- Experience within financial services, compliance, audit, risk, governance, or regulatory environments would be advantageous.
- Proven stakeholder management skills and the ability to provide practical, commercially focused recommendations.
Why Join?
- Opportunity to play a key role in maintaining the stability and integrity of a regulated sector.
- Exposure to complex financial analysis, regulatory oversight, and risk assessment activities.
- Influence important supervisory, licensing, and policy decisions.
- Varied and intellectually stimulating workload with broad stakeholder exposure.
- Opportunity to drive process improvements and reporting innovation.
- Collaborative environment with strong professional development opportunities.
More information about this role is available upon request – contact the team today for further details.
