Consulting Director

Location: Flexible - Travel when necessary
Salary: £1k + bonus and benefits
Call: 0117 321 0588
email:** nick@redlandsearch.com

We have an exciting opportunity for a senior Retail Mortgages Compliance specialist to join a top tier law firm that has identified a tremendous amount of opportunities in Compliance Consultancy.

This new ‘near legal’ arm of the firm aims to advise how new regulations and rules should be implemented operationally. They currently outsource this consultancy, but feel the time is now right and the opportunities are there to take Compliance Consultancy projects on themselves.

We are looking for a real SME. You don't know to have experience of consulting and you will be backed by an experienced BD, Marketing and Bids team. Abovce all, we need someone who understands all contemporary Retail Mortgage Compliance issues (e.g. Consumer Duty & Implementation). We really need an ambitious individual who understands what a fantastic opportunity this is.

You can be based anywhere in the UK.

The Role

You will work with our financial services disputes and investigations and FS regulatory teams on a wide range of retail mortgage-related regulatory and compliance matters including the following:

authorisations
regulatory change
compliance monitoring
assurance
file reviews and due diligence
project work (policies, processes and procedures)
horizon scanning
customer journey and complaints support (FOS and customer); and
corporate governance.

This firm has launched a progressive fully flexible working approach. This approach means that as a Firm we empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work-life balance of our people.

We will invest in you. We want you to be successful. Learning and development is paramount. Your progress helps us meet the changing needs of our clients, build collaborative relationships that endure and set our firm apart as business advisers as well as providers of legal and compliance services. That’s why we invest heavily in developing our people through training programmes.

Your core responsibilities will be:

Working closely with our financial services leads to deliver against the FS sector strategic plan.
Supporting the running of large-scale projects, including leading on core deliverables.
Providing strategic and commercial advice upon a range of compliance and regulatory issues alongside our legal teams.
Delivering excellent client service informed by a knowledge of clients’ business and wider market intel.
Responsibility for own financial management, meeting financial targets and billing.
Participating in business development activities with clients and potential clients.
Assisting with production of legal updates and the delivery of training to client’s legal teams and senior managers.
Developing relationships with clients, and assisting in maintaining and developing key accounts.

The Person

We are currently recruiting for a specialist retail mortgage compliance consultant with more than 10 years’ experience to work within our nationally renowned and Tier 1 Financial Service Regulatory team.

Our ideal candidate will have a similar supportive, flexible and driven ethos and will have accumulated the following experience and skills:

Interested in all areas of our nationally FS regulatory practice, which counts a wide variety of household financial services businesses as clients.
Commercially aware and appetite for keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in this ever-changing area of work.
Succinct, clear and confident communication skills.
Outgoing, self-motivated individual.
Strong client focussed approach with excellent analytical and organisational skills
Strong ability to manage workloads and deadlines.
Energetic, entrepreneurial and driven.
A strong team ethos is essential as this team works across three locations in the UK, and collaboration is always at the core of what we do.
Mortgage compliance experience is essential.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic, fast-growing and supportive team working with innovative banking and finance clients on a whole range of compliance and regulatory matters and projects.

Come join us.