Manager, PSR & BCOBS, Retail Risk Specialist (12 month FTC)

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK financial services firm is seeking a Manager, PSR & BCOBS, Retail Risk Specialist to support compliance and deliver excellent customer outcomes. The role involves engaging with stakeholders, developing risk control objectives, and ensuring successful project delivery. The ideal candidate has strong UK regulatory experience and attention to detail. The position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Adaptable lifestyle benefits

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in UK regulations that impact Retail Products and Payments.
• Good understanding of compliance frameworks and technology.
• Expert drafting skills for senior level audiences.
• Exacting standards and attention to detail required.

Responsibilities

• Provide Conduct & Compliance Risk support to business areas.
• Develop and implement effective, data-led risk control objectives.
• Advocate for customers through compliant solutions.
• Support delivery of new products to meet regulatory needs.
• Ensure success of Group projects through focused challenge.

Skills

Experience in UK regulations

Understanding of Compliance frameworks and technology

Expert drafting skills

Attention to detail

Business partnering experience

Job description

JOB TITLE: Manager, PSR & BCOBS, Retail Risk Specialist (12 month FTC)

SALARY: £65,385 - £79,915

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, Newport, Edinburgh, Halifax

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this opportunity

The Manager, PSR and BCOBS plays a pivotal role in supporting one of the UK's largest financial services transformations. We're seeking a proactive, detail-oriented individual to join the Conduct, Compliance and Operational Risk (CCOR) team within the Risk Division, as we accelerate delivery across the Group's transformation journey.
You bring expertise in compliance, customer impact and change delivery. Confident stakeholder engagement is key and your ability to influence and support decision-makers will help ensure the delivery of good customer outcomes, aligned with Consumer Duty and Group standards.

Day to day, you will

• Works with Risk and Control owner teams to provide Conduct & Compliance Risk support and help deliver against aligned customer, business and strategic outcomes.

• Assists with the development and implementation of effective, ongoing data-led Conduct & Compliance Risk control objectives to meet the needs or risk and control owners, control specialist teams, Audit and external regulators.

• Advocating for customers through concise, commercially sensitive advice to business areas on policy interpretation and regulations, utilising deep compliance expertise to co-create fantastic compliant solutions for customers and the Group working closely with the business

• Oversighting and supporting the delivery of new products and initiatives to meet the needs of risk and control owners, control specialist teams, Audit and external regulators.

• Integral part of ensuring Group projects and initiatives succeed through supportive, business focused challenge.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need

• Experience in UK regulations that impact Retail Products and Payments with a specific focus on: the Banking Conduct of Business Sourcebook (BCOBS), Payment Services Regulations (PSRs), Product Intervention and Product Governance Sourcebook (PROD), and the Consumer Duty regulations.

• Good understanding of the latest Compliance frameworks and technology, industry standards and established best practice to enable you to play a key role in a specialist risk centre of excellence.

• Expert drafting skills with expertise in preparing concise reports for senior level audiences, with clarity and precision.

• Exacting standards and ruthless attention to detail.

• Any previous experience of business partnering within a Retail Specialist role would be useful.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes an annual performance-related bonus and a generous pension contribution of up to 15%.