Vacancy: Senior compliance manager

We are recruiting for a Senior Compliance Manager to join our Legal team, in a permanent capacity, working full-time at our Swindon offices located on key transport links in the town centre.

About the role

Compliance is at the forefront of complex regulatory change, providing advice and subject matter expertise on all aspects of regulation to ensure that BCS achieves its strategic objectives, remains compliant and does the right thing for our customers.

The Senior Compliance Manager is responsible for defining, implementing, improving and maintaining quality assurance policies & procedures to ensure compliance with the necessary standards and to ensure all certification products and services meet audit and other regulatory requirements.

Key responsibilities:

• Act as a source of expert advice on all aspects of quality assurance and regulatory compliance and a key point of contact for all relevant business areas on the application of regulatory requirements;
• Provide guidance to business teams on matters related risk and governance;
• Advise business areas on how current and new regulation impacts the way we interact with our customers, colleagues and suppliers;
• Maintain detailed knowledge of relevant rules and legislation, and be aware of developing regulation providing early warning and action plans to the Executive team where required;
• Ensure GDPR compliance, make recommendations in relation to data protection, conduct the response to requests of data subjects;
• Maintain a comprehensive, risk-based compliance monitoring plan covering relevant regulatory requirements;
• Maintain the compliance framework, ensuring appropriate systems and controls are in place to prevent regulatory breaches;
• Hold responsibility for all compliance adherence with regulatory requirements;
• Maintain certification against the following international standards (ISO9001, ISO22031 and ISO27001);
• Hold responsibility for identifying annual budget requirements for the team and to manage expenditure in line with budgetary requirements;
• Ensure all team members maintain the required knowledge and competence to undertake their role. Supporting them with appropriate knowledge sharing, training and direct support and encouraging personal and professional development accordingly;
• Identify emerging risks and ensure appropriate mitigations are in place;
• Organise appropriate walkthroughs, test processes to ensure the business continuity plan remains effective;
• Conduct risk reviews with all risk owners every six weeks to capture their key business risks, update them as necessary;
• Prepare quarterly reports communicating key risks to the Executive Team, Risk Audit and Finance Committee and Trustee Board as appropriate;
• Develop and maintain appropriate compliance policies and make recommendations for improvements on new and existing policies owned by other business areas;
• Identify any areas of concern or areas for review/update to business procedures, training initiatives and escalate/action accordingly;
• Interact with business stakeholders to reach an agreement on final audit reports and corrective actions; oversee closure of agreed actions;
• Offer advice for new and changing business processes to ensure compliance is maintained;
• Contribute to malpractice investigations or regulatory sanctions;
• Be the lead contact for regulatory and external audits and conduct internal audits according to the audit programme;
• Respond to regulatory consultations on behalf of BCS;
• Prepare the Annual Statement of Compliance and submit to RAFc and relevant stakeholders for approval;
• Act as the designated Safeguarding Lead and the first point of contact for all whistleblowing submissions;
• Support the Information Security agenda and help develop a strong security awareness and culture;
• Flexibility is required of all job holders to adjust responsibilities as required from time to time by their Line Manager/Divisional Director;
• All staff will live the BCS’ values and support our purpose;
• Continually looking at ways to make improvements to systems, processes and procedures;
• The content and reporting lines detailed in this job description may be reviewed and changed from time to time to reflect organisational requirements.

BCS is dedicated to providing training and development to help all staff realise their potential, and also offer a generous benefit package.

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT are committed to promoting equality at every opportunity as an employer. This statement and our policies are designed to ensure our recruitment and employment practices and procedures actively promote equality of opportunity and value diversity.

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK upon application.

PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy may be removed before any listed closing date once a sufficient amount of applications have been received.

In the event that we receive a high number of applications for this vacancy, we may be unable to provide an individual response to every candidate, therefore if you haven’t heard back from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.