Full-Time
Risk & Regulatory Compliance Lead
Updated on 8/23/2026
M&G
1,001-5,000 employees
Publicly traded savings and investments company
No salary listed
London, UK + 2 more
More locations: Edinburgh, UK | Stirling, UK
Remote
Flexible working arrangements may be considered.
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- Significant experience in sustainability, environmental, social and governance (ESG), public policy, regulatory affairs, risk management, or a related discipline.
- Strong understanding of sustainability-related risks and opportunities, including climate, nature, human rights, and broader social issues.
- Experience developing policies, governance frameworks, standards, or risk management approaches.
- Knowledge of United Kingdom and international sustainability regulations, reporting frameworks, and market developments.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience engaging senior leaders.
- Ability to translate complex sustainability and regulatory matters into practical business actions.
- Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Experience preparing high-quality papers and presentations for senior management, executive committees, or boards.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to operate effectively across a complex stakeholder environment.
- Act as the first-line sustainability risk specialist within the Central Sustainability Office.
- Support the business in identifying, assessing, and managing sustainability-related risks and opportunities.
- Develop and maintain sustainability risk frameworks, methodologies, guidance, and tools.
- Coordinate sustainability risk assessments, materiality reviews, and horizon-scanning activities.
- Monitor emerging sustainability risks and analyse potential impacts on the business, clients, and stakeholders.
- Support the development of sustainability-related risk appetite measures, metrics, indicators, and management information.
- Work with risk owners to ensure sustainability risks are documented, monitored, and managed.
- Provide subject matter expertise and constructive challenge to business teams on sustainability risk matters.
- Partner with the second-line Risk function to evolve sustainability risk governance and reporting.
- Prepare papers, recommendations, and management information for senior management committees and governance forums.
- Lead the development, review, and maintenance of sustainability-related policies, standards, and governance frameworks.
- Ensure policies remain aligned with regulatory requirements, industry best practice, and the Group's sustainability strategy.
- Oversee policy implementation and support business functions in embedding policy requirements into operational processes.
- Coordinate policy reviews, governance approvals, and periodic effectiveness assessments.
- Support the development of sustainability-related governance processes and decision-making frameworks.
- Maintain clear documentation and accountability for sustainability policy ownership across the Group.
- Monitor developments across United Kingdom, European Union, and international sustainability regulation, public policy, and market practice.
- Assess the implications of emerging regulations, standards, and guidance for the Group.
- Lead internal analysis of policy developments and prepare recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Coordinate cross-functional responses to regulatory consultations, industry initiatives, and policy developments where appropriate.
- Represent the Group in industry working groups, trade associations, and external stakeholder forums.
- Maintain awareness of evolving expectations from regulators, investors, clients, ratings agencies, policymakers, and civil society organisations.
- Work closely with business units and corporate functions to support effective management of sustainability risks and opportunities.
- Provide expert advice on sustainability-related issues to senior stakeholders across the organisation.
- Support strategic projects including sustainability strategy development, transition planning, nature-related initiatives, human rights programmes, and responsible business activities.
- Facilitate collaboration across Risk, Compliance, Legal, Investments, Procurement, Human Resources, Corporate Affairs, and other key functions.
- Promote understanding of sustainability-related risks and opportunities through training, guidance, and stakeholder engagement.
- Support sustainability reporting and disclosures, ensuring consistency with internal policies and external requirements.
- Contribute to responses for ESG ratings, benchmarks, investor requests, and stakeholder questionnaires.
- Develop management information, dashboards, and reporting materials for executive and board-level audiences.
- Support assurance processes relating to sustainability data, controls, and disclosures.
- Monitor emerging reporting requirements and support implementation of new disclosure obligations.
- Experience within asset management, insurance, banking, or wider financial services.
- Familiarity with sustainability-related frameworks and standards, including the International Sustainability Standards Board, Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, United Kingdom Sustainability Disclosure Requirements, Transition Planning guidance, United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
- Experience engaging with regulators, policymakers, industry bodies, or standard setters.
- Professional qualifications in sustainability, risk management, public policy, governance, or a related field.
M&G is a savings and investments company that manages money for individuals and institutions. It offers a range of investment products, including mutual funds, where many investors pool their money to buy a fixed mix of assets chosen by the fund manager. The funds are then managed to try to grow wealth and provide long-term returns, with investors’ money divided into shares or units based on the fund’s rules. M&G differentiates itself through its long history as an asset manager, its status as an independently listed company after the demerger from Prudential, and its focus on serving the UK and European markets with a broad lineup of funds and investment strategies. Its goal is to help people save and invest for the long term by providing access to professionally managed portfolios and investment options that suit different risk tolerances and goals.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
1931
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q1 2026 delivered £0.6 billion open-business inflows, reversing prior-year outflows.
- 2025 external net inflows hit £7.0 billion, lifting operating profit to £838 million.
- CVC's $1.1 billion secondary partnership validates M&G's private equity sourcing platform.
What critics are saying
- Catherine Ross's 2026 exit leaves private credit leadership concentrated under James King.
- Legacy life outflows still drove £1.6 billion net outflows in 2025, pressuring growth.
- AUM fell to £371.4 billion in Q1 2026 after £3.0 billion market losses.
What makes M&G unique
- Dai-ichi Life's 15% stake brings at least $6 billion flows by 2031.
- M&G's £81 billion private markets platform scales infrastructure debt, private placements, and real estate.
- PruFund and with-profits legacy books create sticky life capital for fee-earning assets.
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