Compliance & Enforcement Manager ( Verification

This is an exciting time to work at Companies House. As well as delivering on an organisational wide digital and data transformation, Companies House is seeing the biggest changes to the way that it has operated since it was established. We have been implementing a series of reforms because of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement Act) 2022 and the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 and are currently implementing new requirements for identity verification.

Our extensive programme of implementing the legislative reforms will see us exercising several new powers to improve the integrity of the company information we receive, hold and share, but also these reforms place Companies House at the heart of the cross-government approach to tackling Economic Crime.

As a Service Manager you’ll be responsible for overseeing the running of compliance and enforcement work streams related to . This will include strategically supporting and overseeing teams across the organization to ensure that the overall framework and approaches are implemented as intended, offering accurate and timely responses to early implementation phases. You will be developing and maintaining communication and correspondence related to IDV compliance and enforcement and ensuring that guidance and information is informing customers about compliance and consequences of non-compliance,

You will be identifying vulnerabilities and risks, undertaking assessments of threats, and prioritising compliance and enforcement activities according to those priorities and designing approaches to mitigate them. Together with colleagues in the IDV team, this role is key in designing and developing our approaches to compliance and enforcement ready for go-live and for implementing them effectively and ensuring we develop a Compliance and Enforcement Service that is fit for our new role in government.

If you are interested in joining us, please apply!

The role will involve developing and delivering our approaches to non-compliance with  and Reverification and overseeing their implementation. Guided by our Compliance and Enforcement strategies and frameworks, you will identify vulnerabilities, inaccuracies, risks and threats and plan, design and implement targeted and strategic work streams to tackle non-compliance and improve the integrity of the company information used and trusted to grow the UK economy.

As a key player in the C&E Team, this role will ensure that statutory requirements are met, that we seek to promote the new objectives of the registrars, and non-compliance is dealt with robustly and proportionately and that we play our part in deterring, preventing and disrupting  and economic crime.

The Registrars’ objectives are to:

• ensure that any person who is required to deliver a document to the registrar does so (and that the requirements for proper delivery are complied with)
• ensure that information contained in the register is accurate and that the register contains everything it ought to
• ensure that records kept by the Registrar do not create a false or misleading impression to members of the public
• prevent companies and others from: carrying out unlawful activities; and facilitating the carrying out of unlawful activities

The key responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing the implementation of a range of enforcement and sanctions approaches for Identity Verification and Reverification, working closely with teams across the organisation, ensuring alignment with our compliance and enforcement strategies and agreed impacts and policy outcomes.
• Identifying and prioritising any delivery issues and tracking metrics to ensure compliance and enforcement activities are delivering as per the strategies and approaches, and are delivering value for money, and any agreed KPIs.
• Identifying vulnerabilities, inaccuracies, risks and threats to non-compliance and the Company register, designing and delivering proportionate and effective compliance and enforcement strategies and campaigns in a targeted and efficient way.
• Investigating suspicious , leading and overseeing casework, using robust evidence, objectivity and impartiality, and…