Quality Assurance Officer

-; Cheadle; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in Cheadle is seeking a Quality Assurance Officer to support mortgage activities by ensuring effective risk management. You'll conduct quality checks, provide constructive feedback, and ensure adherence to regulatory standards. Candidates should have strong communication skills and a keen attention to detail. This position offers competitive compensation and various benefits, including a discretionary bonus and health insurance.

Benefits

Free access to company holiday homes

Discretionary annual bonus

Matched pension contribution

Health cash plan

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Travel season ticket loans

Ride to work scheme

Free local gym access

Local bar / restaurant discounts

Qualifications

• Candidates with relevant skills encouraged to apply.
• Must maintain a high level of customer service.

Responsibilities

• Complete Quality Assurance activity in line with expectations.
• Maintain SME knowledge of business procedures.
• Provide constructive feedback to drive improvements.
• Identify and escalate deficiencies in procedures.
• Help identify key risks and trends.

Skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Ability to provide feedback professionally

Excellent attention to detail

Effective decision-making skills

Proven ability to plan and organise workload

High expectations of Customer Service excellence

Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook

Job description

Company Description

• Join our fantastic Quality Assurance Team!
• c£32,250 base
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts
• Together is based in Cheadle (South Manchester)

We're Together. For over 50 years, we've helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 900 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7.9 billion loan book.

Job Description

The Quality Assurance Officer plays a key role within the 1st Line Risk Team, supporting both regulated and non-regulated mortgage activities by ensuring effective risk management and consistently fair customer outcomes. This role involves carrying out detailed quality assurance checks across operational, conduct, and compliance activities, ensuring colleagues adhere to process guidelines, company policies, and regulatory standards. You will be assessing the overall customer journey in line with Consumer Duty expectations, provide constructive feedback to enhance competence, and identify trends or process improvements that drive business efficiency and better outcomes.

Typical duties include:

• Complete Quality Assurance activity in line with productivity expectations
• Maintain SME knowledge of business procedures to ensure accurate, 'right first time' QA assessments are undertaken
• Display consistent decision-making and provide constructive feedback to colleagues to drive improvements in competence and customer outcomes
• Help to identify key risks, trends and areas for improvement and ensure that both 'best practice' and common findings are shared with colleagues
• To escalates appropriately in the event of any significant regulatory or process breaches
• Identify and escalates deficiencies in business procedures that are impacting customer outcomes or business effectiveness

Qualifications

Candidates with a blend of the following skills and experience are encouraged to apply.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to provide feedback in a professional & constructive manner
• Excellent attention to detail
• Effective decision-making skills
• Proven ability to plan & organise workload and to adhere to targets/deadlines
• High expectations of Customer Service excellence
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook

Desirable

• Experience within the Financial Services Industry
• Good understanding of FCA expectations and the Consumer Duty outcomes
• Experience of Quality Assurance activity and a continuous improvement culture

Additional Information

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.

Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference - we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

Recruitment Process

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Reference Checks

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.

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