FNZ

People Governance Advisor

In short

This People Governance Advisor role at a global wealth management platform company supports People Risk and Compliance across the organisation, working closely with audit, risk, compliance, information security and legal teams. It involves coordinating 1st line governance meetings, monitoring People risk controls, maintaining People policies, and acting as the first point of contact for regulatory and governance queries. The role requires experience in a People, governance, risk, compliance or audit function (ideally in financial services), strong knowledge of employment law and data privacy, and fluent English communication.

Role Description
You will be working as part of a team to support the People Governance Team Lead to provide a visible and highly proactive People governance service to management and all employees across FNZ.
You will be required to work closely with key stakeholders across the business including internal and external audit, risk, compliance, information security and legal teams, to ensure there is effective People governance, controls and compliance with current legislative, regulatory and industry standards and regulations.
This role will manage various People Risk and Compliance projects on a day to day basis. There will also be responsibility for assisting the People team in administering and maintaining BAU tasks as required. This role will add value to meet the People strategic business goals supporting the risk and compliance culture and embedding the FNZ values to create a strong foundation.
This role will drive multiple critical People projects within an established organisation.
Specific Role Responsibilities
•Be the key contact for People Risk Management, providing support to the People team managers and Head of Functions to embed risk management processes, use appropriate framework tools (FNZ's Risk & Control (FRanC) system) to ensure a consistent approach globally.
•Provide support, guidance & assistance to the People team in respect of People governance, including general queries, regulatory obligations, industry standards, current legislation, and support in logging risk events and information in the relevant systems.
•First point of contact for all People related regulatory and governance queries including 2nd line risk queries.
•Co-ordinate 1st line Governance meetings and outputs regionally, and reporting out to relevant Risk & Compliance Committees. Ensuring regional outputs for regional 1st Line Governance meetings are captured and escalated to Group where necessary.
•Ensure there is effective monitoring and reporting of key People risk controls for all regions and functions.
•Provide guidance on relevant regulatory matters and ensure full compliance and support with regional requirements.
•Responsible for ensuring that an effective and timely People governance advice service is delivered to the business.
•Ensure that all local People policies are reviewed, updated, and comply with both internal and external guidelines/laws in a timely manner. Create new documentation where a gap is identified.
Experience Required
Successful candidates are likely to have the following skills and experience:
•Must be able to communicate effectively in English (verbal and written)
•Degree qualified or equivalent experience
•Experience in supporting a People team and/or working in a governance/risk/compliance/audit based role in a fast paced environment (highly advantageous if within the Financial Services sector or regulated industry)
•All round knowledge and understanding of People compliance, Data Privacy, internal/external audits and risk event management alongside People policies & procedures
•Has a strong track record of delivering improvements to governance systems and processes
•Ability to work effectively as a team to drive an excellent People service to the business
•Able to quickly establish credibility and maintains positive & productive working relationships with colleagues
•Has a high impact as a communicator - verbally, written and in meetings
•Able to build and maintain customer relationships, understands corporate environment and aware of implications of internal and external politics
•Organised and proactive, with personal drive and commitment to delivery of results, through others where necessary
•Capable of working to deadlines and adapting to changing conditions, ability to generate effective and pragmatic solutions to new situations and problems as they are presented
•Effectively plans ahead, making sensible balanced decisions in a deadline driven environment
•Strong working knowledge of employment law issues and the ability to apply these to a variety of situations using a pragmatic and common sense approach
What We Offer
•26 days of holiday & 7 sick days per year
•Home Office support (flexible working hours)
•Meal Allowance 100 CZK/day
•Multisport card (available also for partner or child)
•Cafeteria system (600 CZK/month)
•26 weeks fully paid maternity and paternity, 8 weeks fully paid bereavement leave, and 2 weeks fully paid emergency leave
•Pension or Life Insurance (2% from Contractual Monthly Gross Salary)
•Education and Training (funding of professional exams, LinkedIn trainings)
•Support for statutory leaves (e.g., wedding day, blood donation)
•Health and Maternity Care
•Premium and On-call Remuneration
•Referral program
About FNZ
FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.
We created wealth's growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.
We partner with the world's leading financial institutions, with over US$2.5 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).
Together with our clients, we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.

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