About the Role
Here at Border to Coast, we're now looking for an Interim Compliance Officer to ensure effective compliance and anti-financial crime oversight is planned, performed and reported. Reporting to the Head of Compliance and Money Laundering Reporting Officer, you'll ensure the Gifts and Hospitality process operates effectively and appropriate anti-inducement training and procedures are effectively maintained.
Monitoring compliance-related attestations obtained by HR for Colleagues and Directors, and both designing and preparing associated governance MI, you'll provide management support to the HoC & MLRO, to ensure an effective Personal Account dealing process and approval mechanism is in place, along with processes to counter the risk of insider trading.
About You
We'd like our Compliance Officer to be professionally qualified (e.g. CISI or IA) or have the equivalent experience of working in a compliance or a financial crime capacity. With high levels of integrity and trustworthiness and outstanding written and verbal communication skills, you'll have the ability to create a culture of managing to deadlines while ensuring quality of outputs.
With strong knowledge of conduct and financial crime (including fraud-related) issues, and how they can impact on financial services companies, and in particular institutional investment officers, you'll show strength of character and credibility to objectively challenge senior management and/or functional heads within Border to Coast.
About Us:
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership is a collaboration of 11 Local Government Pension Funds with a total asset value of c.£60 billion (as of the 31st of March 2023). Border to Coast is a FCA regulated investment company created to pool the investments of like-minded Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds - our 'Partner Funds'. Established in 2018, we are the largest LGPS pools in the UK, and the largest UK asset manager outside London and Edinburgh.
Our purpose is to make a difference for the Local Government Pension Scheme. We seek to do this by providing cost-effective, innovative, and responsible investment opportunities that deliver returns over the long-term. This is on behalf of the more than 1.1 million LGPS members, 2,800 local participating employers, and the millions of taxpayers associated with our Partner Funds.
Since launch, Border to Coast has been awarded 'Best Pool of the Year' at the LAPF Investment Awards three years out of four, most recently won the 'Pool Innovation of the Year' and named at the Professional Pensions UK Pensions Awards as 'Equity' and 'Alternatives Manager of the Year'.
Joining Border to Coast, you will have access to our excellent benefits:
- Vitality Health Insurance for all employees
- Employee Assistance Programme
- A generous holiday allowance of 30 days a year, plus bank holidays, as we feel it's important for colleagues to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
- Professional Development
- Critical Illness Cover
- Pension scheme
- Stunning Leeds city centre location only a short walk to the train station
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life Assurance 6x of salary
- Sustainable travel plans and public transport discounts
- Range of discounts for Leeds gyms, shops and restaurants
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We have an open and supportive culture with a commitment to learning and valuing everyone's skills and contribution.