FCA Compliance Manager

What you’ll do...

• Collaborating on, delivering and continually strengthening our risk and compliance strategy and framework
• Leading and reporting on our risk and compliance monitoring and advisory programs including delivering monitoring reviews
• Overseeing annual fit and proper assessments under the FCA’s SM&CR
• Producing timely and accurate risk and compliance management information - presenting that information to the business, leadership team and where necessary, the Board
• Ensuring that our governance framework evolves alongside the business and that we have appropriate and up-to-date policies, processes and internal reporting
• Ensuring that all FCA reporting requirements and communications are handled appropriately and promptly. This includes completing reporting in Reg Data and supporting applications on the FCA Connect platform
• Keeping abreast of regulatory requirements and changes, and ensuring that the firm’s horizon scanning and regulatory change programme is forward looking
• Delivering risk and compliance training to the business and overseeing the risk and compliance mandatory training programme
• Being a key point of contact for the business on all risk and compliance matters and deputising for the Head of Department as required
• Building strong, collaborative relationships with other oversight functions, not just in Electric Vehicles, but across the Octopus Group

What you’ll need...

• 4+ years experience within a FCA regulated risk and compliance function
• A love of building customer centric products and services 
• Experience in implementing the FCA Consumer Duty Rules and wider regulatory change
• A strong understanding of the FCA’s SM&CR and the DISP, PROD, PRIN, COCON and SYSC handbooks, alongside a strong understanding of the FCA’s expectations in relation to vulnerable customers
• Working knowledge of financial crime requirements, FCA regulations and JMLSG
• Previous experience of providing both compliance advice and delivering compliance monitoring work
• Excellent written and presentation skills, alongside a keen eye for detail
• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to tailor information to the audience
• Strong change and project management skills, including the ability to manage time well, prioritise effectively and handle multiple deadlines whilst working with (and directing) hybrid teams
• Ability to problem solve and to suggest and implement solutions
• Ability to collaborate with diverse teams across the business
• A passion for personal development and for driving better ways of working. You’ll need to get stuck into a variety of areas as we build and evolve the function
• In addition, the following are desirable:
-A strong working knowledge of the FCA regulations for consumer hire, consumer credit and insurance distribution
-Risk management experience, for example with RCSAs and risk registers

Why else you’ll love it here

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it’s something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don’t advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn’t apply to Octopus - what’s more important to us is finding the right octofit!
• Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people 
• Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits