Key skills
Communication
About this role
Role Overview
- 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 (Desirable)
- Professional risk or governance qualifications (e.g. IRM, ICA, CISI) (Desirable)
- Experience supporting SMCR environments (Desirable)
- Exposure to fintech, platform or wealth management settings (Desirable)
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.