Regulation & Non-Financial Risk Officer; VP

Regulation & Non-Financial Risk Officer (Vice President) ING Financial Markets, UK The Work Environment

Financial Markets (FM) is one of the global product business lines of ING Wholesale Banking and is ING's gateway to secondary capital markets around the world. The FM Regulatory Centre of Expertise (Reg CoE) team has Front Office mandate and is responsible for Regulatory Risk & Control across the three pillars shown below:

Regulatory Outlook, Advice (Including External Advocacy) & Implementation Non-Financial Risk & Control Data Management & Data Governance

The UK FM Regulation & Non-Financial Risk (NFR) team is the UK component of the global FM Reg CoE team and covers the first two pillars for the UK (the third pillar is centrally managed from the Netherlands). The UK FM Regulation & NFR team works in collaboration with FM Reg CoE colleagues in the Netherlands and the US, as well as with functions spanning the three lines of defence, including Legal, Compliance, Trading Risk Management, Operational Risk Management, Audit, Regulatory Transaction Reporting and Operations.

The key objective of the UK FM Regulation & Non-Financial Risk team is to manage the execution of UK FM’s Regulatory and NFR objectives, including by being a trusted advisor, instigating and overseeing UK FM regulatory programmes, and maintaining a robust UK FM control environment. The team mandate comprises:

• Enabling UK FM Sales and Trading desks to operate within evolving regulatory parameters by delivering commercially aware advice on regulatory rules and expectations;
• Being agile to the evolution of UK FM-relevant regulatory obligations, conducting impact assessments and clearly communicating outcomes to the relevant stakeholders;
• Being the single point of contact for UK FM regulatory implementation and remediation programmes, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely delivery;
• Ensuring UK FM regulatory obligations are appropriately prioritised, escalated and managed amidst competing global regulatory priorities, particularly in the context of UK vs. EU regulatory divergence;
• Managing UK FM’s NFR and Compliance Frameworks, ensuring related controls are designed and executed in accordance with ING’s risk appetite and industry best practice;
• Spearheading UK FM NFR initiatives, including in relation to Conduct Risk & Front Office Supervision, policy implementation, procedure drafting, governance and risk assessments;
• Overseeing the progress of UK FM Risk, Compliance and Control deliverables; and producing the requisite check and challenge feedback to ensure UK FM business lines remain compliant;
• Maintaining a culture of regulatory and operational excellence, championing a strong UK FM Risk Culture and driving change by supporting strategic initiatives and transformation projects.

• We are seeking an experienced, VP-level professional to join the UK FM Regulation & NFR team. Alongside the broader mandate of the team as set out above, key individual responsibilities include:
• Providing follow‑up on regulatory horizon scanning for UK FM-relevant publications, documenting findings, drafting impact analysis where necessary, with solutions to protect ING’s business interests and presenting these to the relevant stakeholders for discussion and implementation;
• Consolidating responses to UK FM-relevant regulatory Discussion and Consultation Papers, contributing to related decision‑making and ensuring the FM (global) position is clearly articulated;
• Providing regulatory insights, support and advice, leading multiple regulatory change initiatives and ensuring regulatory rule changes are implemented in accordance with regulatory requirements and timelines;
• Constructively challenging the status quo, exercising check and challenge principles and creating technologically optimised solutions, in a fast changing and complex regulatory environment subject to increasing UK & EU regulatory divergence;
• Delivering on the core regulatory expertise required of the role alongside any corresponding NFR elements, in accordance with UK MiFID, SMCR, Conduct of Business, Product Governance, Risk Control, Market Abuse, Systems &…