People Governance Advisor

Role Description

You will be working as part of a team to support the People Governance Lead to provide a visible and highly proactive People governance service to management and all employees across the FNZ.

You will be required to work closely with key stakeholders across the business including internal and external audit, risk, compliance, information security and legal teams, to ensure there is effective People governance, controls and compliance with current legislative, regulatory and industry standards and regulations.

This role will manage various People Risk and Compliance projects on a day to day basis. There will also be responsibility for assisting the People team in administering and maintaining BAU tasks as required. This role will add value meet the People strategic business goals supporting the risk and compliance culture and embedding the FNZ values to create strong foundation.

This role will drive multiple critical People projects within an established growing organisation.

Specific Role Responsibilities
- Be the key regional contact for People Risk Management, providing support to the People team managers and Head of Functions to embed risk management processes, use appropriate framework tools (FNZ’s Risk & Control (FRanC) system) to ensure a consistent approach globally.
- Provide support, guidance & assistance to the People team in respect of People governance, including general queries, regulatory obligations, industry standards, current legislation, and support in logging risk events and information in the relevant systems.
- First point of contact for all People related regulatory and governance queries including 2nd line risk queries
- Will co-ordinate 1st line Governance meetings and outputs regionally, and reporting out to relevant Risk & Compliance Committees. Ensuring regional outputs for regional 1st Line Governance meetings are captured and escalated to Group where necessary.
- Ensure there is effective monitoring and reporting of key People risk controls for all regions and functions
- Provide guidance on relevant regulatory matters in region and ensure full compliance and support with regional requirements.
- Assist with management of the regional Data Privacy matters and processes within the People function. Supporting regional teams to ensure the regulatory and legislative requirements are met regarding data privacy, and records management, and that these are monitored effectively. Liaise with regional and global Data Protection and Data Governance contacts to ensure compliance.
- Responsible for ensuring that an effective and timely People governance advice service is delivered to the business
- Ensure that all local People policies are reviewed, updated, and comply with both internal and external guidelines/laws in a timely manner. Create new documentation where a gap is identified.

Experience required
- Must be able to communicate effectively in English
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience
- Experience in supporting a People team and/or working in a governance/risk/compliance/audit based role in a fast paced environment (highly advantageous if within the Financial Services sector or regulated industry)
- All round knowledge and understanding of People compliance, Data Privacy, internal /external audits and risk event management alongside People policies & procedures
- Has a strong track record of delivering improvements to governance systems and processes
- Ability to work effectively as a team to drive an excellent People service to the business
- Able to quickly establish credibility and maintains positive & productive working relationships with colleagues
- Has a high impact as a communicator - verbally, written and in meetings
- Able to build and maintain customer relationships, understands corporate environment and aware of implications of internal and external politics
- Organised and proactive, with personal drive and commitment to delivery of results, through others where necessary
- Capable of working to deadlines and adapting to changing conditions, ability to generate effective and pragmatic solutions to new situations and problems as they are presented.
- Effectively plans ahead, making sensible balanced decisions in a deadline driven environment.

About FNZ Culture

Our culture is what drives us. It's at the heart of who we are and everything we do. It's what inspires, excites and moves us forward. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth, one that opens up limitless opportunities for our employees, customers and the wider world. At FNZ we know that great impact is only possible with great teamwork.

That’s why we value the strength and diversity of thought in our global team.

The FNZ Way is the cornerstone of what we do. It is comprised of four values that set the standard for how everyone at FNZ interacts with each other, with our customers, and with all our diverse stakeholders around the world.

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