Head of Compliance - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Baringa Partners LLP

Description

Overview:
We set out to build the world's most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You'll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges. As a Certified B Corporation, we've proven that we've built social and environmental good into every bit of what we do. We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made. Our Legal, Risk & Compliance practice are looking for a Head of Compliance to join the team

Legal Risk and Compliance (LRC) partners with the business, providing specialised legal, commercial and risk management support to enable confident growth. Everything from shaping and negotiating client and supplier contracts, to strategic partnerships, geographical expansion, insurance and company secretarial, restructuring, support for our corporate team (Baringa Enablement), to enterprise risk management.

In response to our growth, Baringa is looking to attract a high-calibre Head of Compliance to work strategically with the General Counsel, across LRC, Baringa Enablement and the business as a whole.

This role can be based in Birmingham or London on a hybrid office/home basis.

What will you be doing?

This role will report into the General Counsel, working closely with the LRC and Baringa Enablement teams and wider firm leadership. Baringa is growing internationally and needs someone who can help evolve Baringa's Compliance framework globally. The Head of Compliance is a key leadership role, responsible for the development, management and maintenance of the Baringa Compliance framework and programs and for embedding a mature compliance culture, policies, standards, training, and controls. The Head of Compliance will lead and help develop the Baringa Compliance team working in collaboration with the General Counsel and others across LRC and Business Enablement.

Key areas

As Baringa scales, and moves into new locations and practice areas, its compliance needs are changing. This role will involve:

• Managing the design and implementation of a plan to evolve Baringa's Compliance Framework (e.g. leadership, risk assessments, standards and controls, training and awareness, monitoring, audit and response).
• Building out the Baringa Compliance team and Compliance programs to meet Baringa's fast-paced entrepreneurial culture.
• Leading analysis of compliance issues and responses to legal and compliance risks and issues, with other LRC and Baringa Enablement leadership.
• Leading the selection and implementation of technology to support and enable Baringa's Compliance Framework and programs.
• Developing and supporting a team of juniors.

This is a critical role on the LRC leadership team, working directly with partners and senior leadership across the firm, and coordinating with others across Baringa Enablement (People, Finance, Data, IT, and others).

Your skills and experience

• At least 8 years of professional experience in compliance, legal or risk management experience.
• Experience or knowledge of working within a partnership structure, ideally in a professional services context.
• In-depth experience in Compliance, ideally in building out and implementing technology-enabled compliance frameworks and programs.
• You will have a commercial mindset and strong business acumen as well as advanced analytical, stakeholder management and negotiation skills, with the confidence to challenge, where necessary.
• Self-starter who is able to think fast, move swiftly and act decisively. An ability to be agile and flexible in a fast-paced environment and support the growth of the business by balancing legal matters with commercial outcomes.
• Proactive and collaborative leader with demonstrated expertise in developing potential in others and commitment to a team-based approach; demonstrated ability to work autonomously; demonstrated ability to exercise discretion, judgment and confidentiality where necessary.
• Creative thinker with a "can-do" philosophy (as opposed to applying "black letter" legal analysis) with a focus on looking beyond the obvious and developing solutions.
• Ability to bring a global mindset and approach, with prior experience of having operated in an international environment.
• Comfortable and experienced in working within a smaller business and can be hands on.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively at all levels, both verbal and written.
• Performance-orientated, results driven, forward thinking and innovative.
• Attention to detail without losing the big picture focus.
• High energy and drive, with a down to earth approach.
• Unquestioned ethics and integrity.

What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting People First

• We give you every opportunity to progress by having four promotional reviews a year. No one develops at the same pace. That's why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion
  reviews. We don't have any quotas: if you're ready and delivering at the right level, you'll get that promotion.
  
  
• We're proud to put people first with wellbeing at the forefront of our culture, one example of this is that every employee receives £300 a year to put towards their wellbeing In 2022 this was recognised in our #1 ranking in the UK's Great Place To Work 'Best Workplaces for Wellbeing'.
  
  
• All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company's success.
  
  
• This role has the expectation of hybrid working (minimum 3 days in the new Baringa Birmingham office).
  
  
• Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 days every year to help the social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us
• We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break - As such we have introduced the 'Re-charge' benefit meaning Baringa will offer all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

Diversity and Inclusion

All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team if you feel you want to discuss this with us one-on-one ahead of applying.

We're excited that our clients and peers recognise Baringa's distinctiveness, and the impact of our work. Once again, in 2022, they've voted for us in the FT's UK annual leading management consultants ranking, and we've been awarded a gold medal for our work in the Energy, Utilities and Environment sector, as well as – for the first time – a second gold medal in oil and gas. And we've won a further 15 medals, three more than last year. It's fantastic to see two new silver medals for sustainability, and operations and supply chain. To top it off we won four new bronze medals for public and social sector; internet, media and entertainment; IT strategy; and people and performance.

In 2023, Baringa has again been recognised as one of the leading UK management consultants by the FT's survey of clients and peers. We were recognized in Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals; Data Analytics & Big Data; Energy, Utilities & Environment; Financial Institutions & Services; Finance, Risk & Compliance; IT-Strategy; IT, Technology & Telecommunications; Oil & Gas; Operations & Supply Chain; People & Performance; Public & Social Sector; Strategy; and Sustainability.

Using business as a force for good

B Corp certification shows that we've met and hold ourselves accountable to high standards of social and environmental performance and transparency. We've written it into our articles of association, so the way we run our business will continue to make life better for our clients, our people, our communities, and our planet.

We are committed to being a sustainable business which drives us to continually rethink and reengineer how we make a positive impact on the world. From working with our clients to build wind farms, setting
up smart hospital wards, and designing a vaccine supply chain, to aligning our business to net zero by 2030 and working in communities where we believe we can make a difference – we want our actions to tell the story of our lasting impact.

Our award-winning people-first philosophy has always made us distinctive – At Baringa we believe that everyone creates a lasting impact when you put people - customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and society - first. Our award-winning people-first philosophy makes us distinctive - Be Kind. Be Curious. Be Great at Work. We explore kindness in our first ever brand campaign - Economics of Kindness

We're a bunch of proudly geeky experts who come from industries around the world. We're a kind and curious team who are building a culture where people can achieve their best, celebrate our differences, and create impact that lasts.

If you have the required skills and experience for this role, apply today.

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