Compliance Business Partner

Howden Group; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Howden Ireland, based in Dublin, seeks a Compliance Business Partner to deliver second-line oversight and advisory support. You will work with business stakeholders to embed regulatory requirements, uphold a robust compliance culture, and support consumer outcomes.

This role suits a head of compliance PCF-12 or a senior manager stepping into PCF responsibilities. You will engage across CPC, IAF, MCC and Insurance Distribution duties while aligning with central regulators and shaping compliance

Qualifications

• Significant compliance experience within general insurance or financial services.
• Strong knowledge of CPC/IAF/MCC and Insurance Distribution requirements.
• Experience delivering monitoring programs and oversight activities.
• Experience engaging with senior management and stakeholders.
• Regulatory qualifications and understanding of the Irish regime.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary second-line compliance contact for general insurance.
• Provide practical, risk-based regulatory advice to management and teams.
• Support CPC, IAF, MCC and ID requirements across business processes.
• Promote a culture of good conduct and customer-focused decisions.
• Support regulatory inspections, audits and acquisitions.

Skills

Compliance experience

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

PCF experience

Commercial awareness

Education

LCI - Professional compliance qualification

Job description

Who are we?

Howden is a global insurance group with employee ownership at its heart. Together, we have pushed the boundaries of insurance. We are united by a shared passion and no-limits mindset, and our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team comprised of 24,000 employees spanning over 56 countries. People join Howden for many different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. It’s what sets us apart, and the reason our employees have been turning down headhunters for years. Whatever your priorities – work / life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering – you’ll find like-minded people driving change at Howden. Based in our Ringsend - Dublin office, Howden Ireland are delighted to have a vacancy for a Compliance Business Partner on a full-time, permanent basis. This role is a hybrid working opportunity that will be an integral part of our wider Compliance team.

About the Role

Reporting directly to the Central Compliance Director, the successful candidate will provide independent second-line compliance oversight and advisory support to business stakeholders, ensuring that regulatory requirements are understood, implemented and embedded within business processes. The role will play a significant part in maintaining a robust compliance culture, supporting positive customer outcomes and ensuring adherence to regulatory obligations. This position is suitable for an existing Head of Compliance PCF-12 holder or a high-performing Senior Compliance Manager with the experience, capability and regulatory knowledge to step into a PCF-12 role. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the ongoing development of the compliance function.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the primary compliance contact for our general insurance business including personal, commercial and wholesale.
• Provide practical, risk-based regulatory advice to management and operational teams.
• Support the business in meeting obligations under the Consumer Protection Code, Individual Accountability Framework, Fitness & Probity Standards, Minimum Competency Code and Insurance Distribution requirements.
• Promote a culture of good conduct, accountability and customer-focused decision-making.
• Support key strategic initiatives, acquisitions, integrations and business transformation projects.
• Support the delivery of the annual risk-based Compliance Monitoring Plan across the Irish business.
• Identify regulatory risks, control weaknesses and emerging compliance issues, ensuring appropriate escalation and remediation.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of compliance policies, standards and procedures.
• Monitor regulatory developments and support implementation of regulatory change initiatives.
• Support responses to regulatory requests, inspections and reviews.
• Assist in maintaining effective relationships with the Central Bank of Ireland and other relevant regulators.
• Ensure regulatory developments are communicated effectively across the business.
• Maintains an unwavering customer focus and instils the same in both colleagues and stakeholders;
• Acts as a role model for positive management and team behaviours;
• Remains aware of external, industry, legal and regulatory developments to ensure practice and outputs are of a sufficiently high standard;
• Keeps informed of all legal and regulatory developments relevant to the role.

About You

• Significant compliance experience within general insurance, financial services, intermediary sectors.
• Strong working knowledge of Irish regulatory requirements, including: Consumer Protection Code (CPC) Individual Accountability Framework (IAF) Fitness & Probity Regime Minimum Competency Code (MCC) Insurance Distribution requirements
• Experience delivering compliance monitoring program and oversight activities.
• Experience engaging with senior management and key stakeholders.
• LCI - Professional compliance qualification
• Previous Controlled Function/PCF experience.
• Experience within a medium / large insurance brokerage or multi-entity regulated business.
• Experience supporting regulatory inspections, audits and acquisitions.
• Strong regulatory knowledge.
• Commercial awareness and pragmatic decision-making.
• Influencing and stakeholder management.
• Risk assessment and problem solving.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Leadership capability
• High levels of integrity, professionalism and accountability.

About Howden Ireland

Howden Ireland is part of Howden, the global insurance intermediary group, and has over 600 employees across 24 local offices advising clients on their commercial insurance, personal insurance, health insurance, life and pensions and mortgage requirements. Our success is primarily down to the incredible people we employ. For more information, please visit About Us | Howden Ireland (howdengroup.com)

What do we offer in return?

A career that you define. At Howden, we value diversity – there is no one Howden type. Instead, we’re looking for individuals who share the same values as us: Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond

Reasonable adjustments

We’re committed to providing reasonable accommodations at Howden to ensure that our positions align well with your needs. Besides the usual adjustments such as software, IT, and office setups, we can also accommodate other changes such as flexible hours* or hybrid working*. *Not all positions can accommodate changes to working hours or locations. Reach out to your Recruitment Partner if you want to know more.

Permanent Howden began in 1994, as just three people and a dog. Now there are 23,000 of us, and we're a leading global insurance group, managing $37bn of premiums for our clients. Our largest shareholder group is us – the people who work in the business – supported by three long-term, minority growth-equity partners who share our vision to build a business to last, one that will never be sold. The owner's mindset is something that's embedded in our culture; our people readily take ownership of their decisions, their actions, and their outputs. They’re invested in every sense. And we all know that by working together to drive the business forward, everyone will benefit from the extraordinary results we can achieve.