Central Compliance Lead

JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a compliance expert to enhance its compliance framework and ensure regulatory adherence. In this pivotal role, you'll design and operate a standardized compliance framework, providing vital insights and support to leadership. Your ability to engage with senior stakeholders and influence the compliance culture will be key. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a hybrid environment, balancing office and remote work while making a significant impact on the organization's compliance posture. If you are passionate about compliance and eager to drive continuous improvement, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of compliance frameworks and risk management.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and build trust quickly.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve a compliance framework with clear accountabilities.
• Provide regular reporting and assurance on compliance status.
• Train partners in controls design and effectiveness.

Skills

Compliance Frameworks

Auditing

Risk Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Critical Thinking

Legal Understanding

Internal Audit

Continuous Improvement

Education

Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit Qualification

Job description

Working pattern: The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able to work between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The team meets in the London Pimlico office twice a week.

It's important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting. If required, you'll find out more about vetting throughout the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays.

Key responsibilities

1. Designing, building, operating, assuring and continuously improving a standardised compliance framework for JLP with clear accountabilities articulated throughout.
2. Developing the provision of regular reporting, monitoring and assurance to provide a single enterprise wide view of our compliance position, action plans and action tracking status. In doing so, supporting assessment of the Partnership's regulatory compliance risk.
3. Providing challenge to leadership and second line teams over the adequacy of the control environment and action plans in place to ensure and improve compliance.
4. Training Partners in controls design and effectiveness, reporting and assurance.
5. Providing central compliance SME support, connections and advice to Partners JLP wide across a broad stakeholder group, including the legal team as a key stakeholder.
6. Supporting the Director, Risk and Assurance in regular reporting across governance groups and to the Executive Team; and setting the strategic direction for our approach to maturing compliance across the Partnership.

Essential skills/experience you'll need

1. Ability to think, challenge and influence enterprise wide. Able to have challenging conversations with senior stakeholders in a clear and constructive manner. Build relationships of trust quickly.
2. Core technical compliance skills and understanding of compliance frameworks, auditing, risk, controls and processes.
3. Critical and commercial thinking to ensure processes and touchpoints developed to enable framework implementation are relevant and appropriate.
4. Ability to interpret evidence and information to develop well reasoned arguments and ability to readily draw on evidence to justify a chosen course of action.
5. Strong working knowledge and experience of enterprise wide compliance framework building and implementation, ideally across large, complex organisations.
6. Ability to demonstrate an understanding of omnichannel retail and the Partnership business model.
7. Continuous improvement mindset in particular in relation to framework development, implementation, synergies and savings.
8. Legal understanding - working alongside in-house legal and SMEs - to interpret technical areas of legislation.
9. Understanding and practical application of the 3 lines of defence model.
10. Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit qualification or equivalent experience.
11. Strong working knowledge of risk frameworks, corporate governance and internal control principles across all relevant aspects of the business.

Desirable skills/experience you may have

1. Experience of large scale multi-site retailing or FMCG.
2. Experience of implementing cyber, data, property rental, financial services, employee, customer, regulatory and programme risk management and compliance frameworks.