Compliance Business Partner

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Compliance Business Partner

About this role

We’re looking for someone to join us as a Compliance Business Partner. You’ll be responsible for a diverse range of areas that will support First Line risk owners in understanding compliance risks within their Business Areas and processes, and promote improvements in the quality of associated compliance controls and the delivery of good customer outcomes. 

The Compliance Advisory team is an enabler for our business.  We are a trusted partner that provides practical advice, advocacy, support and challenge to ensure our business can deliver on their objectives

We are a diverse and welcoming team with a broad range of skills and experience that is looking for someone to join us and help us to continue to support the business in delivering good customer outcomes.

As a Compliance Business Partner supporting the UK Card business, your role will require excellent communication and interpersonal skills, superb integrative thinking and problem solving, and a desire to help the business effectively manage compliance risk so we can deliver on our strategy.

If you have a passion for using risk management as a competitive advantage to drive tangible improvements in the understanding and managing of compliance risk, partnering with stakeholders to enable them to achieve their goals, whilst raising awareness of external factors across the industry to build into our decision making, then our Compliance Business Partner role could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.

What you’ll do

Support the UK Compliance Function in partnering with the First Line to ensure we meet our internal and external obligations in how we manage our compliance risks and deliver on our business strategy. 

Reporting to a Compliance Manager, the role involves:

• Partnering with the business to ensure Process Managers are aware of their Legal and Regulatory obligations and understand key elements of Capital One’s Compliance Management Policy. In addition, other partnering activities include:
  - Control Reviews: Performing Control Reviews to ensure compliance risks are well managed
  - Compliance Advice: Advising on the identification, assessment, measurement, response, and management of compliance risks
  - Change Management:  Identifying and advising on compliance risk for new Business initiatives 
  - Issue and Event Management: Being the Compliance lead on operational loss events and issue management, supporting first line owners, providing advice and regulatory impact assessments

• Supporting the First Line in the development of strong controls in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the compliance control environment

• Partner with key stakeholders in the UK Legal department to support the team and the wider business in interpreting and understanding the Compliance obligations the UK business faces

• Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with business stakeholders in order to influence decisions

• Working closely with the business and colleagues across UK Legal and UK Compliance to deliver key compliance projects

• Supporting other compliance-related risk initiatives and risk assessments. This could include Third Party Compliance activity or supporting the delivery of key Compliance reporting.

What we’re looking for

• A skilled risk professional with experience of working within financial services and an interest in undertaking risk and control assessments

• You already hold, or are interested in working towards, a relevant ICA or IRM qualification (e.g. ICA Certificates/Diplomas in Compliance or IRM Certificates/Diplomas in Risk Management)

• Previous experience of working in a Compliance or Risk Management function

• Excellent communications skills, the ability to manage competing priorities with a strong focus on delivering results and stakeholder management

• Curiosity and collaboration to help identify and recommend solutions to improve control suites, mitigation activities and operational processes 

• Resilient and effective at managing your own workload whilst balancing the needs of the team

• A passion for supporting the business to achieving its goal

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact [email protected]  All information will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.

Who We Are

At Capital One, we're building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.