Senior Compliance Business Partner

Position: Senior Compliance Business Partner - Life
Senior Compliance Business Partner – Life

Working hours:

This role is available on a part-time, job-share or full-time basis.

Location:

Hybrid – 2 Days/Week in Swindon Closing date for applications:
Wednesday 30th September 2026 (We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the advertised closing date if we receive a high volume of applications.)

The opportunity:

Join Us as a Senior Compliance Business Partner! Are you ready to dive into an exciting role where you can make a real difference? As a Senior Compliance Business Partner, you'll be a key player in our dynamic Advisory Services team, working under the leadership of one of our Heads of Compliance. We are looking for an experienced professional who can bring confidence, curiosity and collaborative leadership to help shape decisions, build insight, and ensure a strong Compliance voice within the Life Market Facing Unit (MFU).

This role sits at the heart of our shift from a reactive consultancy model to a proactive, insight led Business Partnering approach - helping us make Compliance simple, trusted and integral to every decision. Operating at a more strategic altitude than traditional advisory work, the post holder will shape senior manager decisions, anticipate cross cutting risks and ensure Compliance delivers insight at the moments that matter.

As a Senior Compliance Business Partner, you'll:

Build trusted, influential relationships with senior managers across your aligned Market Facing Unit, providing proactive insight, constructive challenge and proportionate, commercially literate compliance opinions.

Shape business solutions and decisions by bringing forward looking Compliance insight, framing trade offs clearly, and ensuring decisions align with FCA regulatory rules and expectations and our agreed risk appetite.

Orchestrate Compliance engagement across our SME teams, ensuring the business receives clear, decision ready written advice while maintaining clear second line independence and avoiding duplication or drift into first line delivery

Promote a culture of accountability, helping the business understand regulatory expectations in practical terms, balancing appropriately between prudence and pragmatism to support confident, well informed decision making.

Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of different ways, including part-time, flexible hours, job share, an element of working from home or compressed hours. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

What will you be doing? Reporting into the Head of Compliance, Consulting and Financial Crime, you will:

Be the Primary Compliance Business Partner:
Build trusted, influential relationships with senior managers across the Life MFU, providing proactive insight, constructive challenge and decision-ready guidance.

Bring Enterprise Insight:
Develop a deep understanding of the Life MFU’s strategic priorities, business plan and customer journeys, enabling you to anticipate compliance risks and help shape solutions to support safe, sustainable growth.

Champion Compliance Standards:
Help the Life MFU understand and apply Zurich’s Compliance Risk Universe, and adhere to FCA expectations (including Consumer Duty, Product Governance & Oversight and Third Party Oversight), offering proportionate and commercially aware guidance.

Shape the ‘House View’ Position:
Work with Compliance Assurance, Financial Crime and Data Protection SMEs to develop clear, consistent Compliance positions on emerging issues, thematics and regulatory developments.

Deliver Decision Ready Compliance Advice:
Produce crisp and clear written Advice Notes for…