Join us as a Conduct & Compliance Associate in NatWest Markets
- We’ll look to you to lead regulatory compliance and conduct insight, oversight and challenge
- You’ll be providing expert support, advice, MI and escalation to leaders and the business on risk management
- This is an opportunity to gain exposure as you own stakeholder relationships to make sure there’s an early understanding and buy-in of conduct risk appetite activity
What you'll do
As a Compliance Lead, you’ll be supporting executives in making sure that the business strategy for NatWest Markets Sales & Trading is consistent with and supports an effective regulatory framework. You’ll also be supporting executives on regulatory engagement with the FCA in relation to relevant matters relating to customer franchises and business units.
On top of this, you’ll be:
- Mitigating the risk of legal or regulatory sanctions, material financial loss and reputational harm
- Providing critical analysis and independent challenge, on the function’s strategy, and approach to defining and measuring the conduct risk appetite
- Interrogating and assessing function structures and providing strategic regulatory advice through a focus on customer outcomes and regulatory expectations
- Providing technical advice on the interpretation of regulatory rules applicable to the function and their impact on the operating model
The skills you'll need
To succeed in this role, you’ll need strong financial services experience, preferably in banking and regulated firms in the conduct risk environment. In addition, you’ll need broad technical knowledge of products, services and regulations relevant to a large retail and wholesale bank.
You’ll also demonstrate:
- Knowledge and experience of providing regulatory and technical support and advice to senior management
- The ability to analyse, understand and draw sound conclusions from a wide range of sources and information including MI
- A track record in effective senior stakeholder management, with relevant experience in a compliance or conduct risk related discipline
- Experience in, and the ability to have, challenging conversations with stakeholders to reach agreed positions, with a proven strength in influencing and negotiation skills
- The proven ability to think strategically and to simplify complex conduct matters to make sure they are effectively managed, understood and communicated
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date:
06/05/2025
Ways of Working:Hybrid
What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.
As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.
Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.
One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.
We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
