Ethics & Compliance Governance Consultant

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

Ethics & Compliance Governance Consultant

Centrica Energy is the trading arm of Centrica. We trade power, gas, LNG, and energy attributes and connect producers, suppliers and off takers in the wholesale energy markets - and we provide our clients with the best route-to-market services available to the market today with physical and financial settlement approaches. In short, we call ourselves Energy Movers By Nature.

We’re a total of 850+ colleagues from over 50 different nations, located in 8 different offices around the world. At our London office, where this role is located, you’ll be joining our international office with over 300 dedicated energy specialists.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Ethics & Compliance Consultant to support the delivery of Compliance Governance activities across Centrica Energy. This includes Regulatory Compliance relating to the UK, EU and US regulatory authorities and the jurisdictional energy regulators.

As an Ethics & Compliance Consultant, you will help drive a culture where customers receive good outcomes across the regulated businesses and collaborate with other “2nd Line of defence” functions across Centrica Group to develop/maintain an integrated & aligned approach to managing the risk of compliance with Laws and Regulations. This, in turn, will help to protect the profitability of the business, support positive customer outcomes, and protect the license to operate.

About the Role:

• Maintain close working relationships with a view to maximising the efficiency and effectiveness of the overall E&C Compliance framework.

• Ensure efficient management of all Ethics & Compliance (E&C) committees and forums, through ensuring meeting material is collated and distributed in a timely manner, actions are captured, tracked, and updated and an accurate record of meetings is recorded and retained.

• Establishing and maintaining robust governance controls such as terms of reference, authorities, escalation paths and accountabilities.

• Collating, maintaining, and overseeing the execution of the annual compliance plan across Centrica Energy.

• Develop and maintains a schedule of regulatory reporting including ownership and approvals. Responsible for liaising with stakeholders and ensuring regulatory submissions and registrations on CEREMP and FCA Connect (or jurisdictional equivalents) are completed in a timely manner.

• Supports the embedding of the Senior Managers Framework across Centrica Energy including the application of Worksmart Accord SM&CR software solution which includes training, maintaining, updating MRMs, SoRs, facilitating handovers, and annual approval of the Handover Policy.

• Support ongoing maintenance of the Senior Managers Framework including SMF/Cert induction, ensuring the Senior Managers Handbook is up to date and provides SMF role holders with informative content in relation to regulatory and our expectations of them.

• Responsible for content and maintenance of the Centrica Energy Team and External SharePoint.

• Responsible for ongoing maintenance of relevant E&C Policies and Standards ensuring central records held on the Policy Hub.

• Act as Subject Matter Expert on relevant Governance Activities for Centrica Energy.

About You:

• Thorough understanding of how regulators work.

• Awareness and experience of working in a regulated environment

• An understanding of a regulatory framework in a wholesale energy trading business would be beneficial

• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to provide clear and succinct information.

• Excellent analytical skills. Ability to identify and interpret key issues from complex and detailed regulatory and government papers.

• Credibility to build relationships with a variety of internal stakeholders and influence accordingly.

• Experience in multi-tasking, being able to navigate complex tasks & prioritise effectively.

• Engage and manage stakeholders in an open, honest, and productive manner to promote collaborative working.

• Understanding of organisational governance, business models, culture, operational, financial, quality assurance and risk management procedures is a must.

Ready to Make Your Move and apply?

If you are passionate about discovering your potential and changing how we create a more sustainable future, then we would love to hear from you. We will be continuously reviewing applications; early submission is strongly recommended.

We're a People Place:

We have 4 People Promises, which are our pledge to all our colleagues. It’s the minimum of what you can always expect when working with us.

• People Promise #1 We’re a people place - we are devoted to doing great work together and are cultivating wellbeing and flexibility

• People Promise #2 You’ll ignite your potential - we are committed to career development and equal opportunities

• People Promise #3 You’ll get your share of our success - we offer attractive Benefits and Rewards

• People Promise #4 You’ll make an impact that will truly change tomorrow - we are committed to career development and equal opportunities. We are committed to moving towards a cleaner and greener future.

This is what you can always expect from us. It’s part of our culture, and we know it enables us all to make the most of everyone’s contribution for us to grow, move and thrive.

#LI-CET #MakeYourMove #MoreThanACareer

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.