Assistant Manager, Payments Regulation, Assurance, Audit & Assurance

As a member of the team, we will provide you with ongoing support to allow you to grow as a leading specialist in your field, including on-the-job learning with market-leading clients, internal training courses, and the opportunity to study for further professional qualifications. You would sit within the Regulatory Assurance Team, a national team of regulatory experts. We provide a range of risk services on a variety of subject matter. For the payments sector this includes, but is not limited to, advice or reporting on:

• Permissions and readiness for authorisation;
• Governance, risk management and obligations under the incoming Consumer Duty;
• Safeguarding of customer funds;
• Operational resilience and outsourcing;
• Financial resilience, including capital and liquidity management; and
• The provision of technical input on regulatory matters to Deloitte financial statements audit.
Responsibilities include:
• Develop a leading role in the delivery of strategically important projects with many of the leading UK, and international, FinTech firms in the payments sector;
• Provide subject matter expertise, advice and recommendations on the above topics to help clients anticipate, assess and respond to regulatory requirements;
• Support the delivery of safeguarding reviews including reasonable assurance reports of compliance with the requirements under the EMRs and PSRs;
• Develop your critical-thinking and other analytical skills in explaining regulatory expectations and their impact for clients, including through:
+ Review and input into the enhancement of policies, procedures and other work products; and + Completion of Deloitte assurance reviews.
• Support the development of Deloitte's regulatory propositions for payments clients and help take these to market;
• Engage and work effectively in a wide range of teams and alongside subject matter experts across Deloitte to provide clients with the expertise to best meet their needs.
  
  Working in a payments regulation-related role whether within another consulting/audit firm; a regulator or other standard-setting body for financial services firms; or in industry within a policy, risk management, compliance or internal audit role;
• Growing expertise in interpreting rules and guidance for e-money and payment services institutions (or adjacent firms such as digital banks/other FinTechs), including but not limited to: the Payment Services Regulations, E-Money Regulations, European Banking Authority Guidelines, and relevant components of the FCA Handbook/ Approach Document;
• A track record delivering regulatory or other related projects, such as the development of governance, risk or other types of operating frameworks; written analysis or presentations on how regulatory change impacts regulated firms; or other reporting on the quality of firm performance against expectations.
• Ability to prioritise and manage projects/stakeholders effectively, with experience of the consulting/ audit engagement lifecycle and quality agenda considered a bonus.
Other useful skills
• A strong understanding of the policy-making and supervisory environment in relation to payments regulation within the UK and Europe, and knowledge of future regulatory developments which might impact our client.
• Transferable knowledge of best practice in the governance and oversight of any type of regulated firm, compliance operations or other aspects of a control environment.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts in a straightforward and practical way to provide high-quality client service and advance future business opportunities.
  
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