Role Overview
We are looking to recruit a Compliance Assistant to provide support to the Residential Compliance team and UK offices, both Residential and Non-Residential. The role will include reviewing and responding to day-to-day compliance queries including but not limited to terms of business and staff sales, organising meetings, supporting the Compliance Manager with the Regional Compliance Advisors, creating and circulating communications to the business and other related tasks and day to day support for the team in general.
There may be some travel required to other Savills offices. This is a challenging and varied role and would suit someone who is organised and self-motivated and who has a high level of attention to detail. The role will be within a busy working environment, requires multi-tasking and being able to work on your own initiative building a rapport with colleagues within Savills offices. We require someone who can demonstrate reliability, flexibility and enthusiasm and it's a great opportunity to become part of an experienced and friendly team.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the business by managing our Agency Inbox reviewing and answering compliance-based queries including terms of business, staff sales and other general queries.
- Liaising with other stakeholders within the business including teams such as RDS, Rural Agency, Prime Purchase, Auctions and Group Legal if required.
- Assisting with communications within the business, including e-bulletins, blogs and other mailouts as required.
- Participate and organise any compliance meetings and working groups with other parts of the business and implement any changes.
- Organise team meetings as required, including circulating minutes and follow up on any outstanding actions.
- Support the Compliance Manager with the Regional Compliance Advisors, organise meetings, circulating minutes and other related tasks.
- Assist the Compliance team with any relevant projects or tasks if required and respond to any adhoc compliance queries.
- Update documents on our internal Connect site along with those held in our CRM system when required.
- Be available to travel to other Savills offices when required.
- Provide assistance when reporting is required.
- General admin support for the team.
Key Skills
- Proficient in Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to work in a team, building relationships and trust in others, support multiple people across the business.
- High attention to detail, organisational skills and ability to prioritise the workload.
- Ability to work to deadlines.
- Used to a busy working environment and able to cope with pressure.
- A ‘can-do' attitude.
- The ability to deal with several issues at the same time.
- Self-starter, who relishes challenges and strives for the best.
- Research and problem-solving experience.
- Maintain a high level of professionalism when dealing with clients and colleagues.
- Exercise confidentiality and discretion at all times.
- Property industry experience preferred.
Team Overview
We are a small team of four supporting all of the Residential offices headed up by the Head of Residential Compliance, including a Customer Relations Manager, a Training Manager and we are now looking for a new Compliance Manager. We have over 40 years' experience between us at Savills and we work closely together assisting the offices with their procedures, rolling out changes to legislation, training and handling complaints across the UK. We regularly visit Savills offices as a team or individually to provide support as and when it's required and we meet as a team at our Head Office as often as we can. We work closely with stakeholders in other divisions, and attend external meetings to represent Savills along with other industry experts.
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