Governance and Compliance Manager

About the role

In this highly visible role across the organisation, as Governance and Compliance Manager you'll be working with team members and internal stakeholders across the Zellis Group and supporting the Group Head of Compliance with the delivery of the programme aligned to our corporate plan. As Governance and Compliance Manager you'll be a highly valued team member delivering operations governance and compliance at the 2nd line defence, sustaining standards for a diverse range of products and services. Some of these are regulated, therefore knowledge and experience from the financial services industry would be advantageous. Knowledge of payrolling, payment services and employee benefits, with a focus on employment related insurance products, is needed for maintaining a vigorous product governance process.

Please note this is a 12 month fixed-term contract position.

Policy writing and development of the Group Risk Compliance (GRC) Manual will be critical in the role, as well as driving the education and awareness of our standards of compliance. You'll be confident supporting project-based work and comfortable with customer facing engagement on general governance and compliance matters during customer audit activities. Our workplace is fast-paced but a highly sensitive and confidential environment, delivering services with precision within an international network of service centres in the UK, Republic of Ireland and India.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Assisting the Group Head of Compliance with policy setting to inform the business on all applicable regulatory matters.
• Delivering on product governance, and implementation of key GRC projects under senior leadership.
• Maintaining and enhancing a highly effective, engaging, and dynamic GRC education and awareness programme in consultation with specialist stakeholders, leveraging methods and forums to sustain standards of compliance and nurture good conduct and ethical behaviours.
• Staying up-to-date and informing the business on statutory and regulatory changes, keeping codes of practice pragmatic but capable of influencing the right behaviours.
• Sustaining governance expectations for the Group and cascading to the Supplier Assurance Manager to integrate into the supplier assurance programme.
• Supporting the implementation of a principles-based GRC culture to compliment the corporate governance framework, good conduct and ethics.
• Developing the Group certifications approach to successfully maintain the certifications programme in collaboration with other stakeholders.
• Supporting the Group Head of Compliance with the development of Group statements that unequivocally convey regulatory requirements, whilst upholding principles and raising awareness (for example to anti-modern slavery and human trafficking, codes of conduct, whistleblowing, and conflicts of interest).
• Providing high quality but expedient practical stakeholder consultations, advisory and bid support, and customer audit activities on corporate governance matters to sustain the reputation of our brand.
• Supporting the preparation of regulatory submissions and filings on time, every time according to schedule.
• Proactively seeking opportunities from GRC forums and activities that could enhance our products and services.

Skills and experience

• Qualified to a Degree level, preferably in related governance, risk and compliance and / or minimum 5 years demonstrable and practical experience sustaining compliance with internationally recognised standards and regulations.
• Strong presentation, policy and report writing skills.
• An effective communicator and influencer with multi-stakeholder groups to create great employee experiences.
• Customer centric with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Can make informed decisions about enforcing company policies and practices.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of statutory and regulatory requirements.

Benefits and culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.