Governance Lead (Regulatory / Trading)
Utilities
Hybrid: 3 days per week in London
6 months
£450 - £500 per day
In short: Governance Lead with experience of working with utilities regulations and / or trading regulations required to join a blue chip utilities company. You will be taking minutes in various board meetings while supporting the wider committee in ensuring compliance by writing physical procedures, regulatory reporting, using the FCA connect portal.
In full:
Purpose
To support the delivery of Compliance Governance activities across Ethics & Compliance. This includes but is not limited to Regulatory Compliance relating to the UK, EU and US regulatory authorities and the jurisdictional energy regulators.
Accountabilities
- Maintain close working relationships with a view to maximising the efficiency and effectiveness of the overall E&C Compliance framework.
- Ensure efficient management of all Ethics & Compliance (E&C) committees and forums, through ensuring meeting material is collated and distributed in a timely manner, actions are captured, tracked, and updated and an accurate record of meetings is recorded and retained.
- Establishing and maintaining robust governance controls such as terms of reference, authorities, escalation paths and accountabilities.
- Collating, maintaining, and overseeing the execution of the annual compliance plan across the business.
- Develop and maintains a schedule of regulatory reporting including ownership and approvals. Responsible for liaising with stakeholders and ensuring regulatory submissions and registrations on CEREMP and FCA Connect (or jurisdictional equivalents) are completed in a timely manner.
- When applicable, supports the embedding of the Senior Managers Framework across the business including the application of Worksmart Accord SM&CR software solution which includes training, maintaining, updating MRMs, SoRs, facilitating handovers, and annual approval of the Handover Policy.
- Support ongoing maintenance of the Senior Managers Framework including SMF/Cert induction, ensuring the Senior Managers Handbook is up to date and provides SMF role holders with informative content in relation to regulatory and our expectations of them.
- Responsible for content and maintenance of the Team and External SharePoint.
- Responsible for ongoing maintenance of relevant E&C Policies and Standards ensuring central records held on the Policy Hub.
- Act as Subject Matter Expert on relevant Governance Activities.
Competencies
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to provide clear and succinct information.
- Excellent analytical skills. Ability to identify and interpret key issues from complex and detailed regulatory and government papers.
- Awareness and experience of working in a regulated environment and understanding of a regulatory framework in a wholesale energy trading business
- Credibility to build relationships with a variety of internal stakeholders and influence accordingly.
- Experience in multi-tasking, being able to navigate complex tasks & prioritise effectively.
- Engage with stakeholders in an open, honest, and productive manner to promote collaborative working.
- Effectively manage stakeholders and senior management during meetings by adapting the style of communication to suit the situation and the individual.
- Understanding of organisational governance, business models, culture, operational, financial, quality assurance and risk management procedures is a must. Deep understanding of how regulators work.
- Thorough understanding of how regulators work.
Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.