Legal & Compliance Support Officer

Role Purpose

About Better Society Capital (BSC)

Better Society Capital (BSC) is the UK’s leading social impact-led investor. Our mission is to grow the amount of money invested in tackling social issues and inequalities in the UK; we do this by investing ourselves and enabling others to invest for impact too. Since 2011, we have helped the social impact investment market grow twelve-fold to over £10 billion. This capital has financed social purpose organisations tackling everything from homelessness to mental health and fuel poverty. BSC manages £634m of its own investments as well as acting as portfolio manager for the Schroder BSC Social Impact Investment Trust (SBSI) managing its £83m portfolio. As BSC begins delivering its next five-year strategy, the organisation is embarking on a period of significant opportunity, growth and impact.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with an attention to detail who is ambitious to develop their experience in the social impact investment sector as part of a small motivated team.

The Legal & Compliance team play an important role in reinforcing BSC’s reputation as a responsible investor, ensuring that we meet our legal and regulatory commitments.

As Legal & Compliance Support Officer you will provide high quality and effective administrative support to the Legal & Compliance team.

Key Responsibilities

• Respond to requests for guidance on compliance matters from BSC staff.
• Keep abreast of UK regulatory developments relevant to BSC’s operations.
• Escalate issues to General Counsel and/or the Chief Financial and Operating Officer and assist in the resolution of issues identified.
• Working closely with the People & Talent team, oversee the administration of the annual Compliance Training Plan for all staff.
• Work with external consultants to provide information for quarterly compliance monitoring.
• Conduct internal compliance monitoring.
• Oversee ongoing FCA reports and applications (e.g. for Senior Management Function roles) and ensure that FCA Directory information on BSC is up to date.
• Ensure that all employees are aware of their personal obligations under compliance policies and procedures and oversee the annual attestation and fitness & propriety certification processes.
• Maintain compliance registers e.g., breach registers, complaints register, insider lists.
• Lead on the operation and development of BSC’s online compliance portal (Skillcast) in order to support BSC’s operational compliance activities in an efficient and effective way.
• Organise the Legal & Compliance team’s compliance records including ensuring adherence to data retention periods and digitising hardcopy records.
• Support the wider Legal & Compliance team maintain the External Legal Counsel tracker.
• Participate in at least one ‘BSC Citizenship’ activity, helping to make BSC a great place to work. Examples of this include but are not limited to: helping to organise our summer or winter social, joining the Staff Council or helping with health and safety.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential

• A strong background in admin or other support roles, particularly supporting teams.
• Experience of working in a busy office environment handling a varied and sometimes conflicting workload.
• Confident and competent use of Microsoft Office.

Desirable

• Regulatory experience in financial services.
• Ability to develop tech solutions to compliance operational issues, including the use of AI.
• Experience of compliance activities in a regulated business.
• Engagement with the social sector (e.g., trustee of a charity).

Skills, Abilities and Attributes

• A collaborative team player with strong communication skills and ability to establish excellent working relationships internally and externally
• Enthusiastic and proactive
• Organised, systematic approach to work
• High levels of accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong project management, research and analytical skills, with an ability to prioritise ideas
• Good at finding innovative solutions to problems
• Excellent judgement, discretion and utmost integrity
• Keen and curious to learn new things and develop new skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Prioritise effectively and take ownership of tasks
• Thrives in a varied role
• Flexible

Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from racialised communities are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

How to Apply

Please send your CV and Cover Letter (up to one A4 page) to Careers4Change – see below

Right to Work:Candidates need to have the existing right to work in the UK and for the duration of employment.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Better Society Capital is committed to being a diverse organisation that is truly representative of the communities we serve. We therefore welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, particularly those under-represented in the social impact investment sector (e.g. people from LGBTQIA+, racialised, disabled, or under-served communities).

We are an equal opportunities employer with an inclusive environment where all employees can contribute to their fullest potential. We want every colleague to be able to deliver their work with dignity, equality, comfort and independence. Our office is fully accessible with step-free access and an open-plan set up. We are open to accommodation requests regarding assistive technologies, accessibility tools, flexible working or any other reasonable adjustments that will make working or visiting here more accessible for you.