Wealth Risk & Conduct SME - 1st Line Lead

Virtusa; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Investec is progressing a significant growth agenda within its UK Private Client franchise to deliver a high-touch, advice-led proposition and build robust risk and governance foundations.

This 1st Line risk & conduct SME role provides specialist input into the end-to-end design and launch of the UK Wealth proposition, partnering with risk, compliance, legal and operations to embed Consumer Duty and control ownership from day one.

Qualifications

• Strong 1st Line risk, regulatory or compliance experience within UK wealth management, private banking, investment management or closely related regulated financial services environments.
• Good practical understanding of FCA expectations, Consumer Duty, conduct risk, client outcome testing, governance, control ownership and regulated product or proposition design.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist 1st Line risk input into the end-to-end design of the UK Wealth proposition, ensuring risks, controls and regulatory obligations are considered throughout the client journey.
• Support the definition of 1st Line control ownership, governance touchpoints, evidence requirements, approvals, escalation routes and ongoing monitoring needs.
• Challenge design choices where they create unnecessary regulatory, conduct or client outcome risk, and recommend practical mitigations that preserve the intended client experience.
• Contribute to launch readiness artefacts by ensuring regulatory, compliance, Consumer Duty and 1st Line risk requirements are clearly captured and understood.
• Provide clear input into programme governance on key risks, assumptions, dependencies, open regulatory questions and decisions required.

Skills

1st Line risk

FCA Consumer Duty

Governance & controls

Job description

Investec is progressing a significant growth agenda within its UK Private Client franchise to deliver a high-touch, advice-led proposition and build robust risk and governance foundations.

This 1st Line risk & conduct SME role provides specialist input into the end-to-end design and launch of the UK Wealth proposition, partnering with risk, compliance, legal and operations to embed Consumer Duty and control ownership from day one.