Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Compliance Assistant plays a crucial role in supporting the Compliance Manager and the Risk Assurance team to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and internal policies. This position involves maintaining compliance documentation, assisting with audits, and ensuring staff are informed of compliance obligations. The role requires strong organizational skills and attention to detail, along with the ability to work independently and collaboratively. The Compliance Assistant will also be involved in training sessions and tracking regulatory developments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date company policies, compliance policies, and key records.
- Ensure policies, procedures, and manuals are accessible and chase departments for overdue updates.
- Update Risk Assurance Intranet sites and publish awareness articles with the Internal Communications team.
- Prepare the Lloyd's annual compliance return for review by the Compliance Manager.
- Monitor and track regulatory developments and circulate updates to relevant departments.
- Coordinate and design compliance training sessions, deliver sessions, and maintain training records.
- Maintain the E-Learning insurance compliance system.
- Support preparation and submission of reports to Executive and Audit and Risk Committee.
- Input regulatory returns for the FCA and Lloyd's of London with oversight from the Risk and Compliance Officer.
- Undertake sanction checks on suppliers as requested by the Procurement team.
- Assist with internal audits and gather documentation for auditors.
- Track all risk assurance actions through to completion.
- Respond to routine queries regarding compliance policies and procedures.
- Escalate potential compliance issues to Risk Assurance as appropriate.
- Conduct compliance reviews and control testing under the supervision of the Compliance Manager.
- Maintain key records for the department such as business continuity plans.
- Support the team with projects or tasks such as data analysis or report reviews.
Key Skills:
- High attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
- Ability to work with confidential information discreetly and professionally.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Competent in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc.).
- A methodical and proactive approach to tasks.
- Presentation skills.
- Administrative or clerical experience, ideally in a compliance, legal, or finance environment.
- Understanding of basic compliance or regulatory principles.
- Desirable: Experience in a regulated industry (e.g., financial services, healthcare, legal).
- Further education in law, business, or compliance-related subjects.
- Knowledge of GDPR, FCA regulations, or other relevant frameworks.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: City Of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
About
Location: Remote
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Department: Risk Assurance
Purpose of Job: The Compliance Assistant supports the Compliance Manager, Risk Assurance and also the wider, Risk Assurance team in ensuring the organisation adheres to regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry standards. This role involves administrative support, maintaining compliance documentation, assisting with audits and regulatory returns, and helping ensure staff are informed of compliance obligations.
Key Responsibilities:
- To maintain accurate and up-to-date company policies, compliance policies and key records such as manuals, guidance and training materials and registers such as gifts and hospitality register/ conflicts of interest register.
- To ensure policies, procedures, and manuals are up to date and accessible for all staff and chase departments when policies are significantly overdue.
- To ensure all Risk Assurance Intranet sites are up to date and ensure there is a regular programme of awareness articles published with the Internal Communications team.
- To prepare the Lloyd's annual compliance return for review by Compliance Manager.
- To assist in monitoring and tracking regulatory developments and industry best practices and circulate regulatory updates to the relevant departments.
- To help coordinate and design compliance training sessions, deliver sessions and maintain regulatory training records.
- To maintain the E- Learning insurance compliance system including removal of starters and adding/removing users.
- To support the preparation and submission reports to Executive and Audit and Risk Committee.
- To input regulatory returns for the FCA and Lloyd's of London with oversight and sign off by Risk and Compliance Officer
- To undertake sanction checks on suppliers as requested by the Procurement team.
- To assist with internal audits, including gathering documentation for the MDU's internal auditors and third party coverholder reviews.
- To track all risk assurance actions both internal audit, compliance and others through to completion.
- To respond to routine queries regarding compliance policies and procedures.
- To escalate potential compliance issues to Risk Assurance as appropriate.
- In light with the compliance monitoring plan, to undertake compliance reviews and control testing including file reviews under the supervision of the Compliance Manager and report on results.
- To maintain key records for the department such as business continuity plans and updates to departments policies and procedures.
- To support the team with any projects or tasks such as data analysis or review of reports to the Audit and Risk Committee and development of consumer duty reports.
About You
High attention to detail and strong organisational skills
Ability to work with confidential information discreetly and professionally
Strong written and verbal communication
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Competent in Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook, etc.)
A methodical and proactive approach to tasks
Presentation Skills
Administrative or clerical experience, ideally in a compliance, legal, or finance environment
Understanding of basic compliance or regulatory principles.
Desirable
Experience in a regulated industry (e.g., financial services, healthcare, legal)
Further education in law, business, or compliance-related subjects
Knowledge of GDPR, FCA regulations, or other relevant frameworks
You may also have experience in the following roles: Regulatory Assistant, Risk Assistant, Compliance Coordinator, Governance Assistant, Policy Administrator, Audit Assistant, Compliance Officer, Risk Coordinator, Regulatory Coordinator, etc.
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Nice-to-have skills
Powerpoint
City of London, England
Work experience
HR
Languages
English