Compliance Consultant

Purpose of the Job

Providing specialist regulatory advice to clients and supporting the delivery of complex regulatory implementation projects. Helping to maximise our presence within the industry to secure new clients and business opportunities.

Main Responsibilities

You will be an integral part of the Payments Practice whose clients range from UK based SPIs to international EMIs and FMIs providing innovative fintech solutions. The role will be varied and challenging enabling you to see the payments industry from a unique perspective as part of a flexible consulting team.  Your core responsibilities will be focused on client delivery and servicing as well as business development. This will involve the timely provision of regulatory and compliance advice and guidance participation in marketing and business development technical research producing technical materials and supporting RegTech solutions.

The role provides an opportunity to contribute to the continuing growth of the Payment Practice and you will also gain exposure over time to other sectors through crosspractice collaboration initiatives.

Client delivery and servicing

• Providing high quality advice and support to clients on a range of regulatory compliance matters this may include:
  • Assisting with compliance framework design regulatory reviews and compliance monitoring;
  • Responding to adhoc and routine queries from a portfolio of clients;
  • Developing training materials and assisting with the delivery of training sessions and workshops;
  • Assisting with authorisations registrations variations of permission and changes in control;
  • Drafting and maintaining policies procedures and other compliance documentation;
  • Actively partnering with global teams and other practices to support and deliver on shared projects and responsibilities;
• Having a client centric approach in order to retain existing business developing a thorough understanding of clients businesses and requirements to enable you to provide relevant and accurate advice growing business through identifying upsell opportunities from your knowledge of the client and identifying cross sell opportunities into Bovill Newgate and the wider Ocorian Group from your work; and
• Keeping abreast of regulatory developments and understanding how client activities may be impacted this may involve being proactive in updating clients and colleagues on relevant regulatory changes and industry news.

Business development

• Support payments and emoney related revenue growth from ongoing support project work regulatory transactions and by contributing to the development of new product and service offerings;
• Building and maintaining professional working relationships with clients trade bodies and the regulator(s);
• Actively seeking to increase our pipeline by performing market research and identifying new target client prospects as well as leveraging existing client relationships to maximise opportunities for upselling and crossselling;
• Representing the firm at industry events promoting the Bovill Newgate brand;
• Participating in internal events and training sessions such as client briefings and roundtable events aimed at compliance professionals; and
• Assisting the team with marketing and business development activities this may involve writing articles for the website and social media and preparing proposals draft engagement letters and marketing materials.

  Purpose of the Job

  Providing specialist regulatory advice to clients and supporting the delivery of complex regulatory implementation projects. Helping to maximise our presence within the industry to secure new clients and business opportunities.

  Main Responsibilities

  You will be an integral part of the Payments Practice whose clients range from UK based SPIs to international EMIs and FMIs providing innovative fintech solutions. The role will be varied and challenging enabling you to see the payments industry from a unique perspective as part of a flexible consulting team.  Your core responsibilities will be focused on client delivery and servicing as well as business development. This will involve the timely provision of regulatory and compliance advice and guidance participation in marketing and business development technical research producing technical materials and supporting RegTech solutions.

  The role provides an opportunity to contribute to the continuing growth of the Payment Practice and you will also gain exposure over time to other sectors through crosspractice collaboration initiatives.Client delivery and servicing

• Providing high quality advice and support to clients on a range of regulatory compliance matters this may include:
  • Assisting with compliance framework design regulatory reviews and compliance monitoring;
  • Responding to adhoc and routine queries from a portfolio of clients;
  • Developing training materials and assisting with the delivery of training sessions and workshops;
  • Assisting with authorisations registrations variations of permission and changes in control;
  • Drafting and maintaining policies procedures and other compliance documentation;
  • Actively partnering with global teams and other practices to support and deliver on shared projects and responsibilities;
• Having a client centric approach in order to retain existing business developing a thorough understanding of clients businesses and requirements to enable you to provide relevant and accurate advice growing business through identifying upsell opportunities from your knowledge of the client and identifying cross sell opportunities into Bovill Newgate and the wider Ocorian Group from your work; and
• Keeping abreast of regulatory developments and understanding how client activities may be impacted this may involve being proactive in updating clients and colleagues on relevant regulatory changes and industry news.

• Business development

• Support payments and emoney related revenue growth from ongoing support project work regulatory transactions and by contributing to the development of new product and service offerings;
• Building and maintaining professional working relationships with clients trade bodies and the regulator(s);
• Actively seeking to increase our pipeline by performing market research and identifying new target client prospects as well as leveraging existing client relationships to maximise opportunities for upselling and crossselling;
• Representing the firm at industry events promoting the Bovill Newgate brand;
• Participating in internal events and training sessions such as client briefings and roundtable events aimed at compliance professionals; and
• Assisting the team with marketing and business development activities this may involve writing articles for the website and social media and preparing proposals draft engagement letters and marketing materials.

Qualifications :

Knowledge skills and experience

You are a highly motivated individual with an appetite to keep learning and who thrives in a fastpaced highpressure environment. You will have commercial acumen the ability to spot new opportunities and develop them an entrepreneurial mindset a willingness to be handson and to tackle a broad range of matters outside main areas of expertise and a proven ability to manage your own workload and cope with the peaks and troughs associated with professional services.

Qualifications and experience

• You are likely to have a degree and at least three years relevant experience as a payment services and / or emoney related compliance practitioner gained at a PSP EMI and / or at the regulator legal or other professional services company;

• You need to have a thorough understanding of the FCA regulations and expectations for the payments sector good technical knowledge and experience of advising payment services and emoney firms and experience translating regulatory rules and guidance into meaningful fitforpurpose and pragmatic solutions for clients;

• You will need to have proven knowledge and experience of the PSRs EMRs PSD2 FCA Handbook FCA Approach Document and relevant FCA and EBA Guidelines along with a good understanding of the business issues and the key regulatory challenges faced across the payments and emoney sector including areas of supervisory focus;

• You also need to have some experience of managing client relationships and projects this means you are expected to have exceptional written and oral communication skills the ability to confidently interact with key stakeholders and the ability to prioritise multiple projects and engagements whilst meeting tight deadlines;
• Having knowledge and experience of nonUK and nonEU payment services and emoney regulatory regimes would be an advantage; and
• Having excellent Microsoft Office skills would also be an advantage.

Additional Information :

All staff are expected to embody our core values that underpin everything that we do and that reflect the skills and behaviours we all need to be successful.  These are:

• We are CLIENT CENTRIC  Clients are at the centre of our world and were committed to providing expertise and specialist solutions to meet their most complex challenges.
• We are AMBITIOUS  We aim high. We think and act globally seizing every opportunity to delight our clients and support our colleagues wherever in the world they may be.
• We are AGILE  We act on our initiative to get things done for our clients. Our independence gives us the flexibility and freedom to keep things simple efficient and effective.
• We are COLLABORATIVE  With a curious mindset we ask the right questions to get to the right solution for our clients faster. We collaborate to win together and share our successes.
• We are ETHICAL  We behave with integrity at all times and assume positive intent building trust through responsible actions and honest relationships.

Equal Opportunities for Everyone

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Were an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age ethnicity religion sex sexual orientation gender identity family or parental status national origin or veteran neurodiversity or disability status.