Risk and Compliance Co-ordinator

Pension Insurance Corporation plc

Risk and Compliance Department Coordinator at PIC, supporting compliance activities and administrative functions within the CRO's Office. Key role in managing internal communications and assisting compliance monitoring reviews.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomJuniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

**Role purpose**
**The Risk and Compliance Department Coordinator will join the Chief Risk Officer’s (CRO) Office and report to the CRO’s Executive Assistant. The role requires the Department Coordinator to:**
- Provide Administrative Support across the Risk and Compliance Function and act as a first point of contact for internal and external stakeholder queries
- Support Compliance and Financial Crime activities, including:
- Assisting the Compliance team with routine monitoring and compliance reviews across PIC including Financial Crime controls.
- Maintain and manage key compliance systems including the Policy Management System (PolicyHub) and Personal Account Dealing Register.
- Contribute to PIC’s risk management and regulatory adherence through day-to-day compliance activities.
**Specific accountabilities assigned to the role of the Department Coordinator within the Risk and Compliance function:**
**Administrative Support to the CRO office and Risk Senior Leadership Team (SLT)**
- Provide diary management support for Risk SLT with scheduling of key Risk Function meetings: Booking rooms and ensuring external guests are booked in with reception and liaising with internal teams and EAs across PIC for scheduling internal meetings
- Prepare agendas, take minutes, and track follow up actions for important Risk function or CRO meetings
- Handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism
- Coordinate travel, process expense claims, raise and receipting of purchase orders, as Departmental PO champion.
**Communication & Stakeholder Management**
- Be the first point of contact for internal and external stakeholders to the Risk and Compliance function
- Develop and share internal communications, announcements, and team updates as appropriate
- Support the coordination of cross functional meetings, workshops, and leadership sessions
- Organise team events, offsites, and training sessions sourcing external venues, dealing with all logistical requirements.
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes and improve team efficiency
- Work alongside the EA to CRO and deputise for the EA during absences as required
**Policy Framework Support:**
- Manage the Policy Framework
- Assist in maintaining the internal policy management system.
- Support the tracking of policy review cycles.
- Support with ad hoc policy queries, as required.
**Compliance and Financial Crime Support:**
- Help prepare documentation for internal compliance reviews.
- Support with compliance monitoring reviews: evidence collection, testing, and analysis
- Co-ordinate on compliance queries with the compliance team and business areas
- Support with routine compliance and financial crime monitoring activities.
- Review employee personal trading declarations and maintain accurate records of personal account trading activities.

Requirements

What you’ll need

**Knowledge**
- Basic understanding of UK financial services regulation, specifically the role of the FCA and PRA and why firms like PIC are regulated
- Basic understanding of what compliance is and why it is important in a regulated organisation
- Knowledge of administrative processes such as diary management, meeting coordination, document control, and handling confidential information
**Skills**
- Strong organisational, planning and time management skills
- Clear written and verbal communication ability
- Strong attention to detail and maintaining accurate records
- Ability to prioritise tasks to meet deadlines
- Confident use of MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word for tracking, reporting and documentation
**Experience**
**Essential**
- Minimum 1 year’s professional experience in any structured office or corporate environment
- Experience providing administrative and coordination support
- Demonstrated ability to work accurately and reliably in a role involving sensitive information
**Desirable**
- Experience working in financial services or insurance industry
- Entry level financial services / Compliance qualifications such as Chartered Insurance Institute CF1 or RO1, or ICA Certificate in Compliance

Benefits

Comp & perks

In addition to a competitive base salary and the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan, upon joining us here at Pension Insurance Corporation, you will get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 28 days' annual leave (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme and much more.

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Hard Skills & Tools

diary managementmeeting coordinationdocument controlcompliance monitoringevidence collectiontestinganalysispolicy managementfinancial crime monitoringrecord keeping

Soft Skills

organizational skillsplanning skillstime managementwritten communicationverbal communicationattention to detailtask prioritizationdiscretionprofessionalismstakeholder management

Certifications

Chartered Insurance Institute CF1RO1ICA Certificate in Compliance