Compliance Business Partner - PCF12

Howden Ireland; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Howden Ireland, based in Ringsend, Dublin, seeks a Compliance Business Partner to provide independent second-line compliance oversight and advisory support within the broader Compliance team. The role is full-time, permanent and hybrid, reporting to the Central Compliance Director.

The successful candidate will ensure regulatory requirements are understood and embedded in business processes, driving a strong compliance culture and positive customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant compliance experience within general insurance/financial services.
• Experience with CPC, IAF, MCC and Insurance Distribution requirements.
• Experience delivering monitoring programs and oversight activities.
• Experience engaging with senior management and key stakeholders.

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 CPC, IAF, MCC and Insurance Distribution requirements.
• Promote a culture of good conduct, accountability and customer-focused decision-making.
• Support delivery of the annual risk-based Compliance Monitoring Plan across the Irish business.
• Identify regulatory risks, control weaknesses and emerging compliance issues.
• Assist in developing and maintaining compliance policies, standards and procedures.
• Monitor regulatory developments and support regulatory change initiatives.
• Support responses to regulatory requests, inspections and reviews.
• Maintain relationships with regulators, including Central Bank of Ireland.

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication skills

Regulatory reporting

Education

LCI - Professional compliance qualification

PCF/Controlled Function experience

Job description

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 behaviors;
• 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)