Policy Expert
Compliance Leader (Advisory & Oversight)
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Policy Expert – Compliance Leader (Advisory & Oversight)
Are you ready to transform the insurance industry?
Policy Expert is a forward-thinking business that loves to get things done. Leveraging proprietary technology and smart data, we offer reliable products and a wow customer experience.
Having achieved rapid growth since being founded in 2011, we’ve won over 1.5 million customers in Home, Motor, and Pet insurance and have been ranked the UK’s No.1-rated home insurer by Review Centre since 2013.
What you’ll be doing:
As a Compliance Leader (Advisory & Oversight), you will play a central role in providing advisory support and independent oversight across the business, working in close partnership with the Group Head of Compliance and acting as a key bridge between the Compliance team and the wider business.
This is a broad, high-impact role requiring both technical expertise and strong advisory capability. You will be responsible for providing regulatory advice, supporting the business in embedding compliance into day-to-day operations, and ensuring that risks identified through monitoring and oversight are effectively resolved.
You will line manage 1 direct report, providing coaching and support to develop their advisory and technical capability, while maintaining a strong personal focus on delivering high-quality compliance advice and oversight.
This role offers significant exposure to senior stakeholders and the opportunity to actively shape the evolution of the second-line compliance function.
The primary responsibilities of this role include (but not limited to):
- Regulatory Advice & Business Partnering
- Provide pragmatic, proportionate compliance advice to senior stakeholders
- Embed a “compliant by design” approach across products, pricing, and customer journeys
- Support decision-making by balancing regulatory requirements with commercial objectives
- Act as a trusted advisor across key business areas
- Partner with compliance leadership to ensure you, and your team, remain abreast of ongoing regulatory developments.
- Support the business in preparing for and responding to regulatory engagement and audits.
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Advisory Support for Regulatory Change
- Provide advisory input and independent oversight on key regulatory initiatives, including:
- Vulnerable customer frameworks
- Consumer Duty embedding and outcomes monitoring
- Pricing / fair value enhancements
- Provide oversight and challenge to ensure regulatory change is effectively embedded and sustained, not just implemented
- Provide advisory input and independent oversight on key regulatory initiatives, including:
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Oversight & Issue Resolution
- Work closely with our third-party providers to ensure issues identified are:
- Understood
- Prioritised
- Effectively remediated
- Provide challenge to the business where progress is insufficient
- Ensure clear accountability for actions and outcomes
- Work closely with our third-party providers to ensure issues identified are:
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Line manage and support the development of 1 direct report within the Compliance team
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Regulatory Engagement & Governance
- Support regulatory interactions, audits and reviews
- Contribute to Governance forums and senior reporting
- Support horizon scanning and carry out regulatory impact assessments where required
Who are you:
You are an experienced compliance professional with strong generalist knowledge and the ability to operate at both a strategic and hands-on level.
You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment and enjoy partnering with the business to deliver practical solutions. You bring confidence, pragmatism, and leadership – alongside a clear focus to deliver good customer outcomes.
The core attributes we would value in this role are:
- Strong experience within a compliance role in general insurance
- Broad understanding of FCA regulation and conduct risk
- Experience delivering regulatory change and business transformation
- Ability to engage, influence, and challenge senior stakeholders
- Strong commercial awareness and pragmatic mindset
- Experience developing or managing people
- Ability to operate with autonomy and support senior leadership
- Professional qualification (ICA / CISI or equivalent)
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Desirable
- Experience with Consumer Duty implementation
- AI implementation and uses
Benefits:
- This role will be based in our London office in a 50/50 Hybrid mode.
- We match your pension contributions up to 7%
- Private medical & Dental cover
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year + Study leave (with encouragement to use it)
- Enhanced maternity & paternity
- Travel season ticket loan
- Access to a wide selection of London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge Employee Wellbeing Programme
What We Stand for and Next Steps
“We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We treat all applications equally and recruit based solely on an individual’s skills, knowledge, and experience. The quality and growing diversity of our team is a testament to this commitment”
At Policy Expert, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for all candidates. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process to accommodate your needs, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring every candidate has an equal opportunity to succeed and will work with you to provide the necessary support.
We aim to be in touch within 14 working days of your application – you will be notified if successful or unsuccessful. Please be encouraged to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements.
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