Huntswood expands its recruitment arm

Increased market demand and sustained business growth has prompted further expansion within Huntswood’s permanent and interim recruitment division.

To support this growth seven new team members have recently joined Huntswood’s recruitment function, bringing a breadth and depth of knowledge and expertise that will add further value to the company’s recruitment proposition.

As part of this growth Huntswood is augmenting its dedicated financial services sector team, in order to meet increased demand and ensure the highest levels of customer service continue to be delivered to new and existing clients. The company is also re-launching its management consultancy recruitment service offering, using its unique market knowledge and insight to deliver tangible results for clients.

The new team will be managed by Ian Elam, who said, “The ongoing development of our suite of recruitment services represents a great opportunity for both the new recruits and our existing team.

This expansion is a key priority for Huntswood’s CEO David Brownlow. “Investment is important for our growing business. By enhancing both our recruitment offering and team, Huntswood can deliver its holistic services to a wider circle of clients.”

More information regarding Huntswood’s recruitment services can be found at our website www.huntswood.com/recruitment.html  

Featured Vacancy – Risk and Compliance Consultant – £45,000 – London

London based Asset Management firm is seeking a high calibre Risk and Compliance Consultant to lead regulatory projects and drive ownership of compliance into the business.

Featured Vacancy – Operational Risk Specialist – £550 a day, 3 month rolling contract – Northampton / London

Our client, a leading financial services organisation has an immediate requirement for an Operational Risk Specialist.

As the Operational Risk Specialist your primary responsibility will be to ensure the business maintains a strong system of internal control and complies with the Operational Risk framework. This will involve working with senior management to develop operational risk profiles of various functional areas and to articulate risks in a clear and consistent manner. This will be achieved by ensuring all business risks and key controls are identified, documented, measured, monitored and mitigated. Documentation will include key risk themes, control effectiveness and potential impacts as well as mitigating actions across major change programmes.

You will also be responsible for ensuring legal, regulatory and Group policy is implemented within the Operational Risk framework and applied appropriately to the business.

Suitable applicants should demonstrate a detailed knowledge of operational risk frameworks within financial services organisations including risk assessment, risk mitigation and risk management.

If you meet the above criteria and this position interests you then please submit your CV for consideration.

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Featured Vacancy – Risk and Compliance Consultant – London – £45,000

London based Asset Management firm is seeking a high calibre Risk and Compliance Consultant to lead regulatory projects and drive ownership of compliance into the business.

Featured Vacancy – Regulated Complaints Handler – Peterborough – £30,000

Our financial services client is seeking a Regulated Complaints Handler to assist with handling customers’ complaints, primarily managing through to conclusion complaints which have a regulatory focus. 

Accountabilities include:

• Investigate regulatory complaints, provide full responses to customers, and support root cause analysis
• Occasional preparation and qualification of management information including regulatory reporting
• Meet relevant service, quality and output standards
• Maintain a working knowledge of current FSA and other relevant regulation to ensure their approach to handling regulatory complaints is fair, robust and appropriate
• Apply the principles of Treating Customers Fairly to enable the Society to demonstrate that it is meeting regulatory rules and guidance on Treating Customers Fairly.

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Featured Vacancy – Compliance Approvals Analyst – North West – £250-300 – 4 month contract

Our client is seeking two experienced Compliance Analysts with knowledge of communications/financial promotions practice and regulation gained within financial services.

Role Profile:

To review and assess items of customer facing communication and product literature to ensure that our communications are fair, clear and not misleading, complying with the relevant regulatory and legislative requirements.

Featured Vacancy – Marketing Communication Project Manager – London – £400 – £600 – 6 month contract

Our client, a leading financial services organisation is seeking a marketing Communication project manager for an immediate start.

Purpose of role:

The purpose of this role is to plan, manage and deliver projects in scope of the marketing & communications programme. The role will cover all aspects of project management including planning, delivering to time and budget, managing the project team and stakeholder relationships.

Core accountabilities:

Planning – The role holder will be required to quickly grasp the high level business requirement and finalize the approach, estimates and plan together with marketing and Business representatives and communicate the key milestones and timeline.

Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) – Dead in the water or alive and kicking?

Understandably TCF received a lot of attention in the run-up to the two FSA imposed industry deadlines in 2008. This required financial services firms to have robust measures in place to allow an assessment of whether TCF was working, and for TCF to be embedded in the culture of firms. Since then the FSA has taken forward the assessment of fair customer treatment through its ARROW risk assessment methodology. So, what are firms doing about it now, in 2010, and what are the regulators expectations?

Some firms and commentators have suggested that TCF is effectively dead, the FSA failed to drive through any lasting change and it is no longer a priority of the regulator. This suggestion is somewhat naive and misses the point that how you treat your customers was not simply a project to focus on in 2007/2008 but is the right way to do business going forward.

The driving force behind the FSA’s focus on TCF was that for too long the industry had failed to put things right without regulatory intervention (think pensions review, endowment mis-selling, payment protection insurance). Also, TCF was meant to give more freedom to firms to set out their own stall, rather than impose an approach on the industry because of its principles based nature.

Featured Vacancy – Operational Communications Writers – Peterborough – up to £250 a day

Our client, a leading provider of business process outsourcing services for the UK Life and Pensions industry, is looking for a team of Operational Communications Writers to produce communications for a pensions related project (including mailings, literature, and web content).

Senior Compliance Officer

Midlands – Up to £47,000 plus benefits

Our client is one of the UK’s leading Building Societies serving over 1 million customers. They provide a vibrant and forward thinking working environment along with principles that have helped them deliver strong financial results year on year.

Due to the increased complexity, volume and impact of regulatory changes, the Compliance team is looking for a Senior Compliance Officer to expand the existing team.

The successful candidate will support the business in the interpretation and application of existing regulatory requirements (including FSA Handbook), and track developing regulatory themes and initiatives emerging both within the UK and EU. An ability or demonstrated potential to assess the commercial applications of these developments is essential.

This vacancy provides an excellent opportunity to contribute to the consistent and ongoing achievement of compliance standards within the business through commercial interpretation of regulation and the development of compliance related processes and initiatives across the business. This role is suited both to those that fulfill a similar role now and those who have relevant compliance experience and can demonstrate the capability to quickly develop these skills. Candidates should have an expert understanding of the relevant statutory regulations (FSA Handbook and COB Sourcebook). At least three years experience within financial services compliance is also essential.

If you meet the above criteria and this role interests you, then please submit your CV for consideration