Compliance Manager
London | Permanent - Full Time
Hybrid
About us
HDI is a Corporate & Specialty Insurer part of the Talanx Group. With over 120 years of experience, HDI operates across five continents, around 40 countries and employs over 5,000 people worldwide.
The role
Working closely with the Head of Compliance, you’ll play a key role in the day-to-day delivery of the Compliance function, helping to ensure the business meets its regulatory obligations across the UK and Ireland.
- Support the delivery of the Compliance strategy, including monitoring activity, providing practical advice to the business, and helping to manage priorities and workloads.
- Oversee the Compliance Monitoring function across our UK and Ireland legal entities, ensuring activity is delivered effectively and to a high standard.
- Help ensure the business operates in line with relevant regulatory requirements, including those set by BaFin, the PRA, FCA and Central Bank of Ireland.
- Workclosely with colleagues across the business to provide clear, pragmatic compliance guidance and support.
- Support the effective running of the Compliance Team, ensuring regulatory commitments, internal deadlines and key deliverables are met.
Key accountabilities
- Lead and oversee the Compliance Monitoring framework, including methodology, sampling, scoping, assurance design and escalation thresholds.
- Develop and deliver the Compliance Monitoring Programme, coordinating thematic reviews and business-specific audits, and ensuring findings, remediation and key themes are reported to senior stakeholders.
- Take ownership of Compliance Management Information (MI), including its design, reporting and ongoing development, with particular focus on customer outcomes and regulatory requirements.
- Drive greater automation and dashboarding across the Compliance function, exploring opportunities to use automated tools and AI to improve efficiency and insight.
- Manage and support the Compliance Analyst, overseeing the production of accurate, meaningful and timely MI.
- Oversee the breach and incident management process, ensuring issues are appropriately identified, escalated, tracked and reported.
- Support key governance activities, including policy management, audit action tracking, regulatory reporting and preparation of compliance updates for senior management.
- Ensure Compliance policies remain up to date and appropriately reflect UK and Irish regulatory requirements, maintaining local policies where required.
- Support regulatory engagement, coordinating responses to information requests, ad-hoc enquiries and regulatory reporting.
- Represent Compliance at relevant forums, including Data Governance, helping to maintain high standards of data quality within the function.
- Identify opportunities to improve Compliance processes and ways of working, driving greater efficiency, consistency and quality across the team.
- Lead and contribute to key Compliance projects and initiatives, working closely with the Head of Compliance and wider business.
- Promote strong risk and compliance awareness, proactively identifying and reporting potential incidents, breaches and areas of concern.
- Lead by example in creating an inclusive and collaborative working environment, encouraging diverse perspectives, innovation and continuous improvement.
Skills & experience
- Degree educated or equivalent
- At least 5 years’ experience working in compliance management
- Experience within general insurance, preferably non-life
- Experience of dealing with relevant regulatory bodies g. FCA, PRA, CBoI, Financial Ombudsman Service
- Able to interpret, understand and apply all regulations.
- A good working knowledge of the UK Regulatory Rules and Principles, in particular relating to Conduct Risk, insurance classes of business, and regulatory reporting. Some knowledge of the Irish regulatory regime preferred.
Other
As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, recognising that a diverse and inclusive workplace is a creative and prosperous one.
If you require support with your application, please contact UK&IRE_Recruitment@hdi.global
Apply by 24/12/2026
Reference: HDI00734