allica-bank - Senior Compliance Manager - 2LOD Assurance

• Proven experience leading or materially contributing to 2LOD assurance, compliance monitoring, financial crime assurance, operational risk assurance or 3LOD internal audit in a regulated financial services environment, ideally within UK business banking. • Clear understanding of the difference between 1LOD QA, 2LOD assurance and 3LOD Internal Audit, with the judgement to build a proportionate assurance model that tests risk, controls, outcomes, MI and oversight rather than simply repeating control checks. • Strong knowledge of UK banking regulatory expectations across conduct, compliance, financial crime and operational risk, with the ability to translate obligations into practical assurance scopes and test matrices. • Must be comfortable using analytics and AI-enabled tools safely and pragmatically, with appropriate attention to data quality, governance, explainability, validation and human judgement. • Strong data literacy, including the ability to use MI, population analysis, exception reporting, trend analysis and targeted sampling to form assurance hypotheses and evidence conclusions. • Able to define what good looks like for controls and outcomes, assess both design and operating effectiveness, identify root cause and write clear findings linked to regulatory risk, customer harm and required remediation. • Confident leader who can build a new team, set quality standards, coach reviewers, calibrate findings and create a disciplined delivery rhythm. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce CCO and committee-level reports that are concise, risk-based and decision-useful. • Able to challenge senior stakeholders with a straight bat: firm on evidence and risk, practical on solutions, and independent without becoming detached from the business. • Working at Allica Bank • At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers. • Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind: • Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities • Options for flexible working • Regular social activities • Pension contributions • Discretionary bonus scheme • Private health cover • Life assurance • Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave • Don’t tick every box? • Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you’ll be a good fit, we’d still love to hear from you! • Flexible working • We know the ‘9-to-5’ isn’t right for everyone. That’s why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate. • We’re a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.