VP of Compliance

Skills

About the Role

You will lead compliance strategy across products, entities, and jurisdictions. You will advise executive leadership and Boards on regulatory risk, embed regulatory requirements into products and partnerships, oversee financial-crime controls, manage regulator relationships, and continuously improve compliance policies, monitoring, reporting, governance, and remediation.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in compliance, financial crime, regulatory, or related functions within regulated financial services, fintech, payments, or crypto
• Significant senior leadership experience
• Group or enterprise-level responsibility across multiple products, business lines, regulated entities, or jurisdictions
• Experience advising executive leadership and Boards on complex compliance and regulatory matters
• Experience engaging directly with financial-services regulators
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks for payments, cryptoassets, and digital financial services
• Experience supporting product development and translating regulatory requirements into practical solutions
• Experience building and scaling compliance programmes, teams, and infrastructure in an international organisation
• Ability to satisfy FCA fitness and propriety requirements and hold UK regulatory responsibilities, including registration as an EMD and MLR Individual

Responsibilities

• Lead the Group compliance strategy and framework across products, entities, and jurisdictions
• Oversee compliance frameworks for regulated entities and advise the wider business
• Advise executive leadership and Boards on compliance, regulatory risk, and emerging issues
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Commercial teams to embed regulatory requirements
• Assess regulatory implications of products, markets, business models, and strategic initiatives
• Develop the compliance programme, including policies, risk assessments, monitoring, testing, reporting, governance, remediation, and management information
• Oversee financial-crime compliance, including AML/CTF, sanctions, customer risk, transaction monitoring, and suspicious activity reporting
• Maintain regulatory relationships and lead regulatory applications, examinations, information requests, and remediation programmes
• Monitor regulatory developments and translate them into business actions
• Provide compliance reporting to executive leadership and Boards

Hiring Process

1. Talent Screening, 2. Craft Task, 3. Meet your manager, 4. Meet the team, 5. Receive your offer