Compliance & Risk Manager

Job Title: Compliance & Risk Manager
Salary: £70,000 – £80,000 + benefits
Location: London (Hybrid – 2 days per week in the office)
Pod already has deep expertise spread across its teams, from information security to electrical compliance. What it needs now is someone to connect it all. As our Compliance & Risk Manager, you’ll build the framework that ties that expertise together and gives our Leadership Team a clear, reliable view of where we stand. You’ll have real autonomy and visibility across Pod and the wider EDF group. You’ll also be shaping how a fast-growing business manages risk as it helps make EV charging easy for everyone.

This is what our very own Head of Legal had to say about the role:

“We’re looking for someone who can help take Pod’s approach to compliance and risk to the next level. The expertise already exists across the business, and your opportunity is to connect it, challenge it and turn it into a framework our Leadership Team can really rely on. You’ll have significant autonomy, exposure across Pod and the wider EDF group, and the chance to build something that will grow with the business.”

• Build our compliance framework - You’ll design, implement and continuously improve a proportionate compliance framework that works for Pod, creating clear ownership of regulatory obligations, effective escalation routes and meaningful assurance
• Create clarity around our obligations - You’ll build and maintain a single view of the regulatory, statutory and scheme obligations that apply to Pod. Work with specialists across the business to identify gaps, clarify ownership and make sure material issues do not fall between teams
• Own our policy framework - You’ll bring our policy library under effective control, with clear ownership, approvals, versioning and review cycles. You’ll draft and improve policies and procedures that people can actually understand and use
• Turn assurance into evidence - You’ll work collaboratively with subject matter experts to understand how controls operate, challenge where appropriate and move from self-declaration towards evidence-based assurance where the risk warrants it
• Give leaders a clear picture - You’ll produce concise, useful reporting for the Leadership Team covering compliance status, risks, actions, emerging regulation and areas requiring decisions or investment
• Strengthen risk management - You’ll support the Head of Legal with Pod’s risk register process, facilitating refresh cycles, engaging risk owners, challenging scoring and mitigations, and tracking actions through to completion
• Make audits easier - You’ll support preparation for internal, external, certification, customer and regulatory audits. Keep evidence organised, help colleagues prepare, quality-check responses and make sure findings are addressed rather than rediscovered at the next audit
• Coordinate with our wider group - You’ll act as a working-level interface with EDF group functions on compliance, policy and assurance, translating group expectations into proportionate actions for Pod and helping the business understand where group arrangements already provide coverage
• Support regulated and privacy activity - You’ll support our consumer finance compliance arrangements, including FCA-related monitoring and audit evidence, and help teams navigate day-to-day data protection and privacy matters. These areas offer scope to grow as Pod’s requirements develop
• Build a strong compliance network - You’ll partner with People and subject matter experts to make compliance practical and relevant, from targeted training and onboarding through to incident reporting, lessons learned and Speak Up arrangements.

• Broad compliance, risk or assurance experience - You’ll have significant experience, likely around 7 to 10 years, in compliance, governance, risk, assurance, audit or another closely related regulatory discipline within a UK business
• Experience building frameworks - You’ve designed or implemented compliance or governance frameworks, ideally in an organisation where accountability is distributed across specialist teams rather than sitting within a large central compliance function
• Strong judgement and influence - You’re comfortable working with senior specialists and leaders, including constructively challenging people in areas where they have deeper technical expertise than you
• A practical approach to assurance - You know how to translate policies and obligations into evidence, monitoring, attestations, testing and action tracking, without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
• Excellent policy and written communication skills - You can turn complicated subjects into clear, usable policies and concise reporting for senior audience
• Audit Experience - You’ve supported audits or assessments, from preparing evidence and coordinating responses through to managing findings and actions to closure
• Autonomy and organisation - You’re comfortable creating structure where it doesn’t yet exist, prioritising competing requirements and operating effectively without a large team around you
• Commercial pragmatism - You understand that good compliance is about managing real risk, not adding process for its own sake. You know when to dig deeper, when to escalate and when a proportionate solution is the right one.

Bonus Skills

You don’t need to tick every box, but we’d be particularly interested if you bring experience in one or more of the following:

• FCA consumer credit, appointed representative arrangements or financial promotions
• EV charging, energy, utilities, construction or field-based services
• Data protection, privacy or a relevant privacy qualification
• Working within a group or parent-company environment
• Management systems or certifications such as ISO 27001 or ISO 9001
• Industry schemes, codes of practice or trade associations
• A relevant qualification from bodies such as ICA, IRM or the Chartered Governance Institute.

You don’t need to be a technical expert in information security, product safety, electrical compliance, construction, health and safety, tax or employment law. We already have specialists in these areas. Your value will be in building the framework around that expertise, connecting the dots and giving the business confidence that the whole picture is under control.