UK Outsourcing - Governance & Change Management - Associate

This exciting opportunity is within the UK Outsourcing Governance team that oversees the development and execution of the governance framework that supports the SMF24 in discharge of their prescribed responsibility for outsourcing under the Senior Manager Regime in accordance with Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Finance Conduct Authority (FCA) regulations.

As a UK Outsourcing - Governance & Change Management - Associate, in UK outsourcing Governance team, you will be responsible for, on a day-to-day basis, working with Lines of Business to educate them on the UK Outsourcing requirements and ensure all requirements have been met under the UK Outsourcing Standard.

Job responsibilities

• Acts as a subject-matter-expert (SME)  of the UK outsourcing requirements and trusted advisor to the business
• Ensures UK assessments are assessed for materiality and approved by the relevant senior management
• Maintains appropriate SMF alignment and ensuring risks are acknowledged where appropriate
• Validation of SMF reporting and Legal Entity Forum Decks
• Investigating aged outsourcing metrics
• Regulatory queries/attestations
• Audit/Conduct and Operational Risk (CCOR) reviews
• PRA Register submissions
• Assisting with Change initiatives to evolve the framework

 Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Ability to build great working relationships with business partners in internal LOBs across the firm
• Strong team player with aptitude for risk management, compliance, oversight and control
• Understand the principle of a regulation and be able to apply to an operational process or control
• Comfortable with Excel and presenting/comparing data sets
• Experience in an investment banking regulatory, compliance or operational team is desirable
• Able to demonstrate working in a control focused environment
• Attested track record of working to deadlines, with accountability and responsibility for independent workload