SMCR compliance consumes valuable management time and yet may still leave you exposed to breach risks. But there is a proven effective digital solution.
The FCA's Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) demands greater personal accountability, especially from Senior Managers, and a minimum standard of conduct from all employees. It is a total compliance regime that has led to numerous workflows.
These include allocating responsibilities to Senior Managers, conducting Fit and Proper checks, certifying all Certified Persons, taking Reasonable Steps, creating Handover Notes, and keeping scores of records of all these actions as well as training, policy attestations, breaches and committee composition.
The administration of all these workflows is complex and weighs heavily on staff time. It requires dozens of submissions, checks and registers that can drain management time. Digitising SMCR compliance is not only convenient but vital.
Most financial firms use a mix of documents and spreadsheets alongside a legacy record system to manage their SMCR workflows.
This approach leads to many challenges:
SCMR 360 is a comprehensive, integrated, digital SMCR compliance solution.
It enables clients to digitise, streamline and integrate their SMCR workflows on one portal to improve data accuracy and time efficiencies whilst minimising risk.
The suite of online tools it provides helps to streamline the approval of senior managers and annual certification of material risk takers. Automating chase-ups and record keeping to aid FCA submissions and internal audits.
Dashboards combine the records from various submissions, training, policy attestation, and registers to give a complete view of each employee's compliance status.
Finally, it provides alerts, flagging potential non-compliance issues.
SMCR 360 has helped us to automate processes, reduce paperwork in the form of spreadsheets, and mitigate the risk of technical breaches of SMCR by ensuring records are accurate and up-to-date. It has ensured confidence within compliance teams that Allenby was meeting their responsibilities and created efficiencies.
- Nick Naylor, CEO, Allenby Capital
We have created an SMCR roadmap to help you navigate the compliance landscape, supported by a comprehensive library of SMCR Courses and a fully integrated SMCR 360 Compliance Toolkit.
We also have over 100 free compliance training aids, including assessments, best practice guides, checklists, desk aids, eBooks, games, posters, training presentations and even e-learning modules!
Finally, the SkillcastConnect community provides a unique opportunity to network with other compliance professionals in a vendor-free environment, priority access to our free online learning portal and other exclusive benefits.