Head of Compliance

Make a Home at Taylor Wimpey

At Taylor Wimpey, we don’t just build houses; we build futures. Not just for the people who live in our homes, but for our own people too. When we bring our collective skills together, we make amazing things happen - for ourselves, for each other and for our customers. There are incredible opportunities on your doorstep, and we want you to discover them all. 

With 22 regional offices across the UK and operations in Spain, we bring our vision to life locally. Here, you’ll be given the tools to develop your skills and the freedom to explore new avenues. Share your ideas, experience a no-blame culture, and shape your work around your life.

Every single one of us plays a vital role in bringing to life incredible places and spaces, where anyone can thrive. We believe in making a positive difference to our planet, as well as to people. 

Home to work that matters, and you can be a part of it.

Job Summary

Taylor Wimpey is seeking a dedicated and experienced compliance professional to continuously monitor and ensure the effective enhancement and deployment of policies, processes, controls and e-learning in relation to key corporate compliance areas, including Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering, Human Rights and Modern Slavery, Fraud Prevention and Competition Law. As Taylor Wimpey’s first dedicated compliance offer you will play a critical role in maintaining the company's ethical standards and ensuring adherence to all relevant laws and regulations in so far as they concern these key corporate compliance areas. This is a critical role with great exposure and visibility at all levels across our organisation and the successful candidate will help ensure we further embed our ethos of ensuring we “Do The Right Thing”.

Primary Responsibilities

• Risk Assessment and Management: In conjunction with our internal audit and risk teams provide input into risk assessments and analysis to identify potential compliance risks and develop strategies to mitigate these risks.
• Policy Enhancement: Draft, review, and update key compliance policies and procedures to ensure they remain current, robust and effective.
• Develop and Implement Compliance Programmes: Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive compliance programmes to address our key global corporate risk areas such as Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering, Human Rights and Modern Slavery, Fraud Prevention and Competition Law. Enhance existing programmes by way of our new learning management system.
• Monitoring and Reporting: Monitor compliance with internal policies and relevant external regulations and prepare regular reports for senior management and leaders.
• Training and Awareness: Develop and deliver training programmes to educate employees on compliance-related topics and promote a culture of compliance within the organisation.
• Advice: Provide advice on current and developing risk areas, legislation and regulatory requirements to help ensure our policies and controls remain fully compliant and effective.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with various departments, including Risk, Internal Audit, Legal, HR, Group Functions and Business Units across Taylor Wimpey, to ensure a coordinated approach to compliance.
• Regulatory Liaison: Act as the primary point of contact for Business Units and Group Functions across Taylor Wimpey in so far as key corporate compliance areas are concerned.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of changes in relevant laws and regulations and continuously improve the compliance program to address new risks and requirements.

Experience, Qualifications, Technical Requirements

• Qualifications: 

         o    A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in law, business, compliance or similar. A professional certification in compliance, audit or risk (e.g., ICA, IRR, IIA or similar) is preferred.

• Experience: 

o    Proven experience in a senior compliance role within a large operating group, preferably a listed environment or within the construction or housing developer sector, but sector-specific knowledge is not essential.
o    Track-record of establishing policy frameworks, controls and assurance processes.
o    Experience and confidence in engaging internal stakeholders at head of department and director level.
•    Knowledge: 
o    In-depth knowledge of laws and regulations which apply to large corporate groups such as Taylor Wimpey plc and its subsidiaries.
o    Excellent knowledge of reporting procedures and record-keeping.
•    Skills: 
o    Ability to produce and analyse data, leveraging Artificial Intelligence and digital tools to improve insight, actions and analysis of compliance risks and controls.
o    Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
o    Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
o    High level of attention to detail and accuracy.

• Attributes: 

o    A champion of doing the right thing and an advocate of the importance of robust compliance frameworks, controls and processes.
o    Self-motivated with high ethical standards, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
o    Engaging and pro-active, willing to go above and beyond to help improve processes and ways of working.

What we offer at Taylor Wimpey

At Taylor Wimpey, we are committed to enabling you to make a home with us. Our work is not just about building homes; it's about doing work that matters, making a positive impact on the lives of our customers and the communities we serve.

We enjoy many benefits as standard, including excellent retail discounts, company funded life insurance and private healthcare, and access to a quality pension scheme with company contributions.  We also offer our discounted house purchase scheme, car leasing scheme and share plans, as well as the opportunity to tailor your benefit package to suit your needs with options such as buying extra annual leave or adding dependants to your benefit cover.  Our total reward offer works perfectly with our culture, we are a welcoming community where everyone can feel at home.    

We create a home to your future by providing opportunities for growth and development. We offer industry leading professional training and development, which supports you to unlock your potential and fulfil your career and personal goals in a variety of opportunities and environments. We look to develop our people in the skills and areas they are most interested in, leveraging your qualities and appreciating your unique competencies, skills and expertise that, when we come together, make this a great place to work.

If you want to do work that matters and build a career that lasts, make a home at Taylor Wimpey. 

Inclusivity Statement

As a proud Disability Confident Employer, Taylor Wimpey is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us during the application process that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.

Internal Applicants:

Please inform your line manager if you wish to apply for this role.