Risk and Compliance Manager

BCL Legal is delighted to be assisting this West Midlands based PLC with the recruitment of a Risk and Compliance Manager. This is an excellent opportunity for a lawyer or an individual from an Audit/Finance background to take responsibility for the risk and compliance matters of a large PLC.

Operating at a senior level in the business you will report into the Head of Legal but work with a range of stake holders involved in risk and compliance matters.

The role will involve:
-Maintaining and implementation of risk management framework to anticipate and effectively manage business risk,
- Maintain live risk profile and register, reflecting changes resulting from business initiatives.
- Effective approach to management of key risk areas, eg Modern Slavery, ABC, AML, antitrust.
- Drive, develop, own and manage GDPR compliance programme.
- Ownership of policies, procedures and programmes - eg updating, communicating and training.
- Monitor compliance, governance and external environment to ensure the organisation is prepared for change.
- Establish and maintain effective stakeholder relationships and engagement.
- Support / lead team response to incident management, regulatory investigations, internal issues.
- Some management of business continuity policies and procedures.
- Supporting new business opportunities (eg new routes to market and tenders).

This is an excellent opportunity to join our client at an exciting time.

Please contact Neelam Morris at BCL Legal if this role is of interest to you.