M&A Compliance Manager

Job content

Division focus and key deliverables

The role sits within the Compliance function of the Group Risk department.

The Compliance team’s focus is to support the business to ensure all legislative, regulatory and best practice requirements are met.

The Team’s key deliverables are to provide: -

• Monitoring and assurance oversight for the Group
• Advisory compliance to business stakeholders
• Guidance and support to strengthen the control environment, including policy framework
• Support throughout the mergers & acquisitions process
  

Summary of

the job

The M&A Compliance Manager shall be responsible for co-ordinating and providing effective support from the Group Risk & Compliance team to the global M&A team in the delivery of Group M&A activity.

Reporting directly to the Head of Compliance, the M&A Compliance Manager will focus upon identifying and co-ordinating the management of regulatory, property, insurance, health & safety, compliance, risk and privacy issues.

Pre-acquisition, the M&A Compliance Manger will coordinate risk & compliance due diligence enquiries, analysing disclosures from the target company in order to identify any potential target risks - where necessary pursuing further enquiries to enable validation of any risk issues identified, and to otherwise report to the M&A team upon the risk profile of the target company.

Post-acquisition, the M&A Compliance Manager will engage with the integration team, ensuring that all risk & compliance integration actions are identified and recorded in the integration plan, and then co-ordinating the delivery of those actions within the Group Risk & Compliance team and the incoming business.

By identifying and managing these pre and post-acquisition portfolios, the M&A Compliance Manager shall ensure that the risk profile of each M&A target is identified, reported upon, managed and mitigated in order to support delivery of the Group’s M&A strategy.

Key Objectives

for the job

• Provide guidance and support to members of the Group Risk Team in order to ensure optimum efficiency and effectiveness for mergers & acquisitions.
• Build and maintain strong links with M&A team and other key stakeholders across the global business in order to ensure effective and streamlined pre and post integration process.
• Undertake pre-acquisition due diligence assessments to identify any potential “deal breakers”, and deal-specific risks and opportunities, where necessary identifying and undertaking additional due diligence enquiries in order to explore and crystallise any risk items.
• Engage with identified acquisition targets and Group Insurance Brokers to ensure that the incumbent insurance programme is fully identified, analysed and mapped to the Group programme, with appropriate steps identified to structure an appropriate post-deal insurance programme and with all pre-completion steps taken to ensure that the required programme is in place by the intended completion date.
• Prepare clear and concise reports for the Head of Compliance, Chief Risk Officer and M&A Team in order to set out all identified target risks and proposed actions and mitigations.
• Identify integration and post-transaction issues and risks and prepare plans for mitigation. Ensure risks and activities are identified, mitigated and escalated via the appropriate channels.
• Deliver plans for integration of recently acquired businesses into the Davies Group framework
• Ensure consistency across group standards and processes when implementing integration plans.
• Provide regular reporting regarding issues to keep the Head of Compliance informed of integration risks.
• Supporting the wider Group Risk Team as required in relation to strategic initiatives and projects as and when required.
  

Skills, Knowledge And Experience

• Successful candidate is a strong team player with willingness to “roll up their sleeves,” is able to earn trust quickly, and is effective at managing risk with and through others.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience within a managerial risk / compliance / M&A position in an FCA, SRA or equivalent regulated environment.
• A combination of higher education and industry and/or role specific qualifications.
• Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, with the ability to deliver in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
• Flexible approach and attitude to finding solutions to challenging situations.
• Not essential but advantageous, experience and/or qualification in full lifecycle of project management.
• Strong planning and organisation skills, with the ability to react to business needs & risks, and ability to produce materials under tight deadlines.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently without supervision, establishing priorities and meeting deadlines.
• The ability to work in a secure, sensitive & confidential environment.