About the company

At Ocean, we’re on a mission to become the UK’s leading credit platform for people not served by the mainstream, helping them improve their financial wellbeing over their lifetime. This has been our mission for over 30 years, and it’s still the thing that drives us to do better and more for our customers.

We do this by helping our customers make informed decisions and access personal finance products.

If our mission sounds interesting, please keep reading!

About the job

As our new Senior Compliance Analyst, you will, with support from the Compliance Manager, bring a pragmatic and customer-centric approach to the work you complete. You’ll build up your expertise and confidence in what you do and, with guidance, learn how to use your skills to support the business in managing its risks and opportunities in an appropriate and proportionate way.

You’ll be the kind of person that enjoys pushing the boundaries of your knowledge. You are inquisitive and dig deep to get to the heart of a situation so that you fully understand it, and you thrive in a fast-paced environment like ours.

As our new Senior Compliance Analyst, you are excited to know more about Compliance, love seeing the bigger picture, working with others to explore new and improved ways of working and having the opportunity to grow within your role.

You are also deeply passionate about delivering the highest quality results. You are naturally customer centric and thrive in a role that allows you to enhance your technical, business and communication skills.

You will help the Compliance Manager to build and execute the 2^nd line Compliance Monitoring Plan and support the provision of regulatory advice, guidance and training. This will enable you to work directly with people both within the Intelligent Lending business and group companies.

The Senior Compliance Analyst role will be varied, which as well as seeing you assist in facilitating effective 2^nd line Compliance activity, will also involve you educating and supporting the business in terms of its regulatory obligations and strategic goals. To achieve all of this, you will need to exhibit an excellent ability to prioritise, manage and communicate effectively within a diverse and fast paced environment.

The successful candidate will support the organisation through change, evolution, and sustained growth. You will work alongside an experienced Compliance Manager and a Risk and Compliance team focused on delivering agreed targets.

What you’ll be doing for us

A day in the life of this role could look like…

• Design/produce Conduct MI and Committee pack information.
• Provide accurate regulatory guidance to business areas
• Assist in the production of the 2^nd line Compliance Monitoring Plan and deliver reviews in a timely manner and to a high standard.
• Review of key business projects and changes
• Contributing to the completion of regulatory returns
• Assessing the regulatory impacts of risks and issues
• Conducting horizon scanning of regulatory changes and communicating to the business in both written and verbal formats

With support, and as directed:

• Support the Compliance Manager in the delivery of the Compliance Monitoring Plan to ensure effective oversight of 1^st line activities.
• Together with the Compliance Manager, act as the Regulatory SME for Issues Management, with responsibility for supporting the business with high severity issues and overseeing the business management of mid-low severity issues.
• Provide regulatory guidance and advice for change initiatives/projects.

Skills-wise, you’ll need:

• Experience of working in a Compliance role in an FCA regulated business is essential
• An understanding and awareness of key FCA regulation, with specific knowledge of MCOB and CONC an advantage
• A good level of understanding of conduct risk, particularly in the delivery of fair customer outcomes.
• An understanding of key GDPR regulations and ICO guidance
• A tenacious approach to your work.
• Ability to build effective working relationships across all levels.
• Stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to interpret and use data, analytics and MI for decision making and reporting.
• Independent, self-starter and comfortable working independently.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite.
• You share our core values – Professionalism, Respect, Humility, Passion, Openness and Trust.

And ideally, you’ll also:

• Have or be working towards a professional qualification in Compliance
• Practical experience of consumer unsecured and secured lending

What we’ll do for you

• Pay you competitively and review your salary every year
• Welcome you into our awesome team (dare we say the best? We do, yes!)
• Bring the kind of vibe where we want you to share your ideas, even if it’s not “your area”
• Provide you with all the kit you need to work from home. Of course, you can also work from our Manchester or Cyprus offices, too.
• Help you plan for life after work with our pension scheme
• Take care of your health with eye test vouchers, and our employee assistance programme
• Give you 25 days holiday (to start with), as well as local public holidays and a day off on your birthday
• Support you with training, mentoring and anything else you need to further your development and hit your career goals
• Invite you to regular online and in-person team socials, as well as the occasional team retreat somewhere exotic
• Help you help others with optional “community” days for volunteering
• Provide you flexibility of benefit with the Ocean Health Plan or Perkbox, whatever suits your life best
• We will also plant a tree when you join us and then a tree for every year that you are with us (many we hope) working in partnership with Just One Tree