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SMCR Software Solution

Foster a culture of individual accountability and demonstrate compliance with the Senior Managers and Certification Regime.

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Demonstrate SMCR compliance, strengthen accountability, and enable your SMFs to drive your business forward

Establish responsibility for every department, business activity, and management function related to SMCR requirements with Corporater out-of-the-box SMCR solution. Set a new standard of personal conduct, gain control over operational risk, and empower your senior managers to become more accountable for their actions.

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Corporater SMCR Software

The Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR or SM&CR) came into effect in 2016 with a primary aim to reduce harm to consumers and strengthen market integrity by setting a new standard of personal conduct for everyone working in financial services. The regime applies to all FCA-regulated firms in the UK.

Corporater SMCR software solution is a digital tool that enables firms to achieve a holistic governance of their SMCR compliance. The solution supports all three components of the SMCR regime (Senior Managers Regime, Certifications Regime, and Conduct Rules), and comes pre-configured with a comprehensive set of tools that enables firms to centralise and automate SMCR processes, improve accountability, and demonstrate compliance with the SMCR regime to the FCA.

The solution is designed with an intuitive user interface making it easy for users to access the information they need, assign and complete tasks, identify compliance gaps, evidence competency, and generate certificates and reports. Built on Corporater Business Management platform, Corporater SMCR solution can be integrated with most pre-existing tools and applications, and it can be seamlessly extended to other regulations and broader areas of business management.

Solution Features

  • Intuitive user interface
  • SMCR dashboards
  • Mapping of Senior Management Functions (SMFs)
  • Statements of Responsibilities (SoRs)
  • Management Responsibilities Maps (MRM)
  • Fitness & Propriety (F&P) assessment
  • Automated workflows
  • Certification role mapping
  • Prescribed responsibilities
  • Conduct Rules
  • Conduct breach management
  • Task assignment and approval status tracking
  • Organograms
  • Data integration (automated and manual data input)
  • Policy management
  • Automated reporting
  • Document management
  • Version control
  • Alerts and notifications
  • Customizable branding
  • Access control / permissions
  • SSO

Solution Benefits

Demonstrate compliance with the SMCR regime

Meet regulatory requirements and demonstrate SMCR compliance to key stakeholders and the regulatory body (FCA). Have a complete overview of SMCR requirements applicable to your organization, and demonstrate that your regulatory obligations are met in full with comprehensive audit-ready compliance reports.

Have a holistic view of your SMCR governance

Have a at-a-glance overview of your organization’s SMCR compliance. Create custom dashboards for your teams, departments, and entities to display relevant information. Display status of metrics such as SMFs allocated, prescribed responsibilities allocated, certification progress, and breach investigations. Manage Prescribed Responsibilities with approval workflows and delegations.

Map out Senior Management Functions

Map out your senior management functions (SMFs) on Management Responsibilities Maps (MRM) to have a clear overview of your firm’s governance. Assess accountability at an individual level and across your firm. Use diagrams and tables to clearly depict your SMF’s reporting lines and prescribed responsibilities.

Manage certifications

Generate Statements of Responsibility (SoR) for SMFs and certifications for certified employees. Automate initiation of recertification processes. Set up automated notifications to communicate assignments, responsibilities, approval status, and overdue tasks.

Generate compliance documents and reports

Generate organisational Management Responsibilities Maps (MRM), and other documents to demonstrate SMCR compliance to key stakeholders and the FCA. Store all important compliance documents in a centralised digital repository, where everyone can access them. Track and manage changes to your documents with version control. Export your documents in a variety of popular formats including Word, Excel, PPT, and PDF.

Foster a culture of individual accountability

Set clear expectations and hold your employees accountable. Use automated notifications and proactive follow-up to keep your employees informed about their responsibilities, and enable them to fulfill their duties and assignments within the SMCR software.

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  • SaaS, on premise, or private cloud deployment
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  • Flexible configuration and customization
  • Rapid implementation
  • Ongoing support and innovation
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“Corporater accountability module for UK SMCR, and other accountability regulations like Australia BEAR, Ireland SEAR, Hong Kong MIC, Singapore MAS and the like is very impressive. One of the best and most well thought out solutions for these regulations. Corporater understands the depth of the requirements and how they impact organizations.”

Michael Rasmussen

GRC Analyst and Pundit | GRC 20/20 Research LLC

Key SMCR Areas Supported

Corporater SMCR software enables firms to holistically manage key elements of the SMCR regime, evidence compliance, and empower their SMFs to fulfill their responsibilities.

Senior Managers Regime

Create an overview of your Senior Manager Functions (SMFs) and allocate Prescribed Responsibilities (PRs) amongst them. Set up workflows for Senior Managers (SMs) to accept SMFs and PRs. SMs may view their assigned responsibilities on individual SM profile page, and they can add personal notes to each responsibility to further clarify their role. SMFs can complete Statements of Responsibilities (SoRs) using templates and system data.

Certification Regime

Certify the fitness and propriety of employees in “significant-harm” functions who are not pre-approved as SMFs. Identify Material Risk Takers (MRTs) and their function areas. Utilize the OOTB workflow to manage the end-to-end Certification process, or customize it to mirror the organization’s current BAU process. Produce certificates and automate initiation of annual re-certifications. View certificate status on certified employee’s individual profile page.

Conduct Rules

Demonstrate compliance with FCA’s Conduct Rules. Keep your staff informed about Individual Conduct Rules (which apply to all employees except ancillary roles such as security guards and receptionists) and Senior Manager Conduct Rules (which apply to employees in SMF roles), and ensure that your staff receives appropriate training. Track and monitor progress of training across your firm. Record, investigate, and report on Conduct Rule breaches.

Reasonable Steps

Articulate your expectations to SMFs for evidencing reasonable steps. Empower your SMFs to take reasonable steps to prevent regulatory breaches from occurring. Identify risks associated with specific Prescribed Responsibilities. Design actions to mitigate identified risks, assign actions and monitor their progress. Store supporting artifacts to evidence Reasonable Steps taken around key decisions.

Handover

Establish a bespoke workflow to track the proper handover of all components (incl. job description, responsibilities, outstanding issues, etc.). Track mandatory handover meetings, incl. participants, agenda items, meeting minutes and action items. Store all relevant handover documents in centralised digital repository. Create and standardise individual SM handover documentation for both the outgoing and the incoming SM.

Administrative Functions

Conduct all SMCR administrative duties with ease. Manage SM&CR for all in-scope Legal Entities of the organization. Track regulatory approvals for in-scope individuals. Assign default Prescribed Responsibilities for each SMF. Import relevant data from multiple sources either by system integration or by manual data uploads. Monitor and report on the status of Senior Managers’ acceptance of allocated functions and responsibilities. Monitor and report on progress and status of the Certification process. Produce Management Responsibilities Maps (MRMs) and dynamic org charts populated with current system data. Organize documents and other supporting artifacts to evidence compliance with the SMCR regime. Set up automated alerts for overdue actions.

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