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About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that ?everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well?; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.

Job Title: Governance and Compliance Manager

Job Type: Full-Time Permanent

Location: Farringdon, London

Salary: £64,817 - £68,228

Role Overview:

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Governance and Compliance Manager to join our team. This role involves deputising for the Head of Governance and Compliance and supporting the provision of robust corporate governance, compliance, and legal assurance services. The successful candidate will ensure that MTVH operates within its Rules, constitutional documents, and regulatory and legislative obligations.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the Head of Governance and Compliance in providing comprehensive corporate governance, compliance, and legal assurance services.
Ensure the Group?s legal obligations around Companies House and FCA reporting are completed and support Group restructures.
Line manages the Company Secretarial Assistant, including day-to-day management, training, and development.
Provide governance and compliance advice and guidance to the board, the executive, and colleagues.
Service the Audit & Risk Committee (ARC) and manage the internal audit programme.
Service other Board Committees as required, including the Treasury Committee, Evolution (SPV), and the MTVH Foundation.
Provide assurance to the Executive, ARC, and Board that risk is managed at a strategic and operational level.
Draft, review, and update corporate and governance policies and procedures.
Oversee compliance with legal and regulatory obligations to ensure compliance reporting deadlines are met.
Personal Competencies:

Ability to analyse problems, propose solutions, and develop improvements.
Ability to identify and meet team goals and deliver objectives and plans to budget.
Self-motivated with excellent planning and organisational skills.
Ability to work cooperatively within and across teams and with external partners.
Ability to deliver to deadlines.
Skills / Experience / Knowledge:

Degree level education and Chartered Governance Institute or legal qualification.
Substantial experience in governance and compliance within a large, regulated sector organisation (preferably social housing).
Experience of servicing Board or Committee meetings and strong skills in taking detailed and accurate committee minutes.
Excellent IT skills and comfortable with standard office IT packages and electronic portals.
Ability to undertake management responsibilities.
Experience of delivering services to a very high standard.
If you are a proactive and experienced professional looking to make a significant impact in a dynamic organisation, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team in Farringdon, London!

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What?s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off
Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
Cycle2work scheme
Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we?re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

Gender
Ethnicity
LGBTQ+
Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment