Hybrid Governance, Risk & Compliance Specialist

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About the role

  • Governance, Risk & Compliance Specialist at Quilter providing oversight on governance, risk, and compliance activities, strengthening Quilter Invest’s risk management culture across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Provide first line risk oversight, including identification, assessment and documentation of key risks, controls and mitigations
  • Lead and challenge the RCSA process, ensuring outcomes are robust, current and well‑evidenced
  • Partner with senior stakeholders across Quilter Invest, providing trusted advice, insight
  • Manage risk events, investigations, root cause analysis and lessons learned
  • Maintain risk registers, risk appetite monitoring and high‑quality risk reporting
  • Deliver first line assurance and control testing, strengthening control design and risk maturity
  • Track, challenge and report closure of audit, compliance and assurance actions
  • Coordinate regulatory and compliance activity, including requests, policy reviews and embedding Group requirements and challenge on risk, compliance and control matters
  • Produce clear risk, compliance and assurance MI to support effective senior decision‑making

Requirements

  • Demonstratable experience working in a first line governance, risk, compliance or assurance role within financial services or a regulated environment
  • Strong knowledge of risk frameworks, governance structures and control methodologies
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distil complex issues into clear, senior-ready outputs
  • Strong analytical and structured thinking, with high attention to detail
  • Ability to work autonomously while building effective relationships across teams and stakeholders
  • A proactive and curious mindset, with a focus on continuous improvement of processes, frameworks and outcomes
  • Strong organisation and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
  • Experience working in a second line governance, risk or compliance function
  • Professional risk or governance qualifications (e.g. IRM, ICA, CISI)
  • Experience supporting SMCR environments
  • Exposure to fintech, platform or wealth management settings

Benefits

  • Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
  • Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
  • Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
  • Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
  • Life Assurance: 4x your salary.
  • Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
  • Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only
  • In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.

Job title

Governance, Risk & Compliance Specialist

Job type

Experience level

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Salary

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Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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