Opportunity Description
Head of Compliance & MLRO (SMF16 & SMF17)
London (City)
Hybrid (3 days in 2 from home)
A newly-authorised, fast-growing UK specialist retail/lending bank is looking for its next Head of Compliance & MLRO to take full ownership of the second-line compliance and financial crime framework.
This is a genuine build role with Board access. You'll hold both the SMF16 (Compliance Oversight) and SMF17 (MLRO) functions and shape the compliance culture of a scaling institution from an early stage.
What you'll own
- The firm-wide compliance monitoring framework, policies and FCA/PRA relationship
- Consumer Duty embedding across mortgage and savings propositions, evidencing good outcomes for a non-standard customer base
- The full AML, CTF, sanctions and fraud framework as Nominated Officer — including a customer base with meaningful cross-border and PEP exposure
- SMCR implementation, financial crime risk assessm...