Pensions Technical Manager

Are you an expert in Pensions and Annuities with a passion for regulatory compliance? Do you have the skills to analyse complex regulatory changes and translate them into actionable business solutions? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

We're looking for a Technical & Regulatory Manager, with a specific focus on Retail Annuities. In this role, you will be responsible for First Line Governance activities, ensuring regulatory, legislative, and HMRC requirements are assessed, adopted, and implemented effectively.

You'll also play a key role in guiding and supporting teams across the division, leading process improvements, and delivering training to ensure compliance while minimising risk exposure.

• Assessing and implementing regulatory changes - Reviewing new and updated legislation, identifying impacts on Retail Annuities, and ensuring compliance across teams.
• Providing strategic regulatory guidance - Supporting projects by advising on system, process, and literature design while ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements.
• Liaising with internal risk teams - Managing relationships with key stakeholders in Tax, Conduct Risk, and Operational Risk to stay ahead of regulatory developments.
• Reviewing and enhancing compliance protocols - Conducting assessments of current processes and leading remedial actions when necessary.
• Delivering expert advice - Handling technical queries, complex cases, and complaints, offering recommendations and ensuring best practices.
• Effective communication - Simplifying complex regulatory information for a non-technical audience and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Embedding Conduct Risk principles - Ensuring business processes align with Consumer Duty to deliver the best customer outcomes.

?Extensive experience in a regulatory pensions or retirement-based role
? Strong knowledge of Retail Annuities products, processes, and practices
? Ability to interpret and apply regulatory and legislative changes
?Excellent communication skills - able to break down complex information for different audiences
? Proven stakeholder management and influencing skills
?CII qualifications are highly desirable but not essential

This is only one of many vacancies we are handling, Alexander Lloyd is a specialist within Financial Services recruitment. Areas of expertise include Employee Benefits, Compliance, Pensions, Group Risk, Paraplanners, Sales Support, T&C etc.

Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants you have not been shortlisted for this role.