Compliance Officer

**About the role**:
A highly productive role with multiple deliverables, the Compliance Officer will be working with team members and internal stakeholders across the Zellis group and supporting the Group Head of Compliance with the delivery of the governance, risk and compliance programme. The Compliance Officer is a highly valued team member reporting to the Compliance Monitoring Manager in delivering the control testing programme at the 2nd line defence.

We have a diverse regulatory environment for insurance, payment services, anti-money laundering and financial crime prevention, data protection and data privacy, requiring in-depth knowledge and understanding of regulatory requirements to be able to advise on compliance matters and test standards of compliance with our systems and controls framework.

The Compliance Officer must keep pace with change to our statutory and regulatory requirements as well as our transformation programmes and agile ways of working in the delivery of our products and services. Our work environment is a dynamic, sensitive and confidential work environment. We work with exceptional precision right first time to exceptionally high standards. The Compliance Officer must, therefore, be highly organised, diligent and be able to work in an agile way to support ‘internal customers’ resolving compliance queries often at short notice, whilst delivering on core compliance services to strict deadlines. The Compliance Officer must be well versed with control testing standards to manage and deliver the control sampling and testing service.

**In this role your key responsibilities will be**:

- Defining control tests and setting testing schedules
- Testing controls in accordance with schedules and sample sizes to comply with statutory, regulatory and certification rules and standards.
- Support the delivery of advisory services to stakeholder forums defining best practices for control objectives and descriptions, compliant with GRC frameworks, policies and procedures to safeguard our systems and controls or enhance same when opportunities arise in a way that is proportionate to risk
- Stay up to date and collaborate in workflows to inform the business on new statutory and regulatory requirements applicable to the business keeping codes of practice and ways of working up to date to drive the right behaviours.
- Report on trends from 2nd line analytics to provide Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) leadership with insights into where targeted improvements can be made to mitigate risk exposures
- Deliver 2nd line controls monitoring and testing to assess the standards of compliance within the business against our controls’ framework, including statutory and regulatory requirement

**Skills & experience**:

- Sound operations experience sustaining compliance with internationally recognised standards (specifically ISO31000, ISO27001, ISO9001, ISO22301 certifications and SOC1 Type 2, SOC2 Type 2 regulatory programme) and the UK’s FCA regulatory environment, SM&CR and conduct rules
- Reasonable understanding of; data protection requirements and financial crime prevention and anti-money laundering requirements in payment services and, insurance products.
- Must have strong analytics skills
- Strong probity and investigatory skills to identify control failures and vulnerabilities and articulate recommendations
- Must be a strong collaborator to build and develop relationships with other controllers in the 3 lines of defence for testing purposes
- Can make informed decisions about enforcing company policies and practices
- Knowledge and experience of applicable statutory and regulatory requirements

**Benefits & culture**:
At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

- Unstoppable together.
- Always learning.
- Make it count.
- Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

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