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Operating Model Lead

Schroders, City of Westminster

Operating Model Lead

Salary Not Specified

Schroders, City of Westminster

  • Part time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 21 Nov | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: a765419eb0b84fb59162664b812b5d34

Full Job Description

  • Owning and evolving the operational workflows for the sustainable investment methodologies and ensure these are robust and aligned to our sustainability commitments and regulatory requirements
  • Managing the client sustainability commitments framework and driving the delivery of a solution to record, monitor and report on commitments
  • Defining and managing the Wealth Sustainability Operating Model as part of the wider Schroders Group Operating Model
  • Overseeing the ongoing delivery of our product-level regulatory requirements including periodic disclosures for SFDR, SDR and TCFD
  • Helping to develop relationships with key stakeholders across Technology, Change, Product, Legal and Investment within Wealth and the wider Schroders Group;
    • Discharge of responsibilities The Operating Model Lead shall ensure that all responsibilities are performed to the highest levels of integrity, quality and transparency and in a manner most likely to promote the success of Wealth Management and the Schroder Group. In discharging his/her responsibilities the Operating Model Lead shall establish appropriate structures for all areas under his/her control and oversight and shall:
  • Assist the Chief Operating Officer with implementing the annual and long-term strategy for Wealth Management.
  • Seek to create robust and efficient operational frameworks.
  • Help coordinate the delivery of regulatory requirements.
    • Reporting In discharging his/her responsibilities, the individual shall:
  • Assist the Chief Operating Officer in ensuring that the Global Head of Wealth Management is made aware of any issues which in his/her view are material and which should be communicated to the Group Management Committee and/or the Board.
  • Assist the Chief Operating Officer in ensuring that the Chief Financial Officer, Wealth Management and the Head of Compliance & Risk, Wealth Management, are made aware of any issues which in his/her view are material and which should be communicated to the Wealth Management Audit & Risk Committee, the Group Risk Committee, and/or the Board Audit & Risk Committee.
  • Provide his/her manager with an annual assessment of his/her own performance against objectives agreed.
    • Prudential Regulation Authority ("PRA") and Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") The role is within an entity which is covered by the Senior Manager and Certification Regime (SMCR). As such, all staff are expected to comply with the Individual Conduct Rules for both PRA and FCA. These are:
  • Rule 1: You must act with integrity
  • Rule 2: You must act with due skill, care and diligence
  • Rule 3: You must be open and cooperative with the FCA, PRA and any other regulators
  • Rule 4: You must pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
  • Rule 5: You must observe proper standards of market conduct

    You will be asked to manage the operational framework and the ongoing regulatory requirements for the sustainability capability within Schroders Wealth Management. You will use your skills in project management, data analysis and operational risk management, have strong communication skills, good stakeholder management and ability to prioritise workload towards fixed deadlines. This is a great opportunity to shape the operational workflows within our business, created from new sustainability regulations, from the ground up. An understanding of sustainability regulation in the UK and/or EU is preferred but not required.

    At Cazenove Capital we look after private individuals, families and charities. We are the wealth management business of the FTSE-listed global investment manager Schroders. We help our clients around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
    • About Schroders, our parent company We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. We have around 6,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper. The base We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. And we have everything we need to work flexibly. The team We are one of the largest UK-based wealth management firm, headquartered in London but with offices around the country. We help private clients, families, charities and some institutions meet their long term goals by offering our expertise in investment, wealth planning, lending and family office services. We draw on the resources of the Schroders group, as well as having our own in house investment team. We're open to flexible working, so we can all balance our personal and professional commitments.

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