Top Compliance Jobs in London

Advances Mastercard’s AI and data strategy through research, strategic analysis, responsible AI governance, stakeholder engagement, and adoption initiatives. Develops governance frameworks, evaluates emerging technologies and risks, supports AI and analytics integration, promotes data literacy, contributes to thought leadership, and mentors junior team members. Collaborates with product, engineering, legal, compliance, privacy, security, risk, and business stakeholders to promote responsible innovation.

Owns global product compliance strategy for payment processing, customer eligibility, identity verification, regulatory obligation mapping, and multi-licence operations. Translates complex regulatory requirements into scalable product and engineering decisions, partners with legal, product, engineering, and compliance teams, represents compliance positions to regulators and auditors, and strengthens assurance frameworks across Wise’s markets and payment schemes.

Leads BlackRock’s global technology regulatory compliance program across AI, cloud, data, cybersecurity, digital resilience, and technology providers. Establishes governance, regulatory inventories, risk taxonomies, control frameworks, assurance methods, reporting, and compliance requirements for technology products and services. Partners with Technology, Product, Legal, Risk, Information Security, and Audit teams; engages regulators; oversees examinations and inquiries; and builds a specialist compliance team while providing independent challenge to senior stakeholders.

Manage Wise’s global regulatory compliance frameworks covering anti-bribery and corruption, gifts and entertainment, conflicts of interest, third-party due diligence, individual accountability, consumer protection, and policy investigations. Own compliance registers, risk assessments, governance reporting, monitoring, and regulatory horizon scanning. Partner with global compliance teams and internal stakeholders to embed policies, improve controls, automate workflows, and strengthen ethics and conduct risk management.

Leads Mastercard’s global antitrust and competition law compliance policy. Responsibilities include conducting risk assessments, designing controls, monitoring compliance, developing training and communications, reporting to senior stakeholders, managing regulatory investigations, evaluating products and technologies, and improving processes through technology and AI. Advises senior business leaders and partners across legal, compliance, HR, and business teams on US and EU competition law requirements.

Leads international legal entity compliance and operational risk program execution across EMEA, APAC, Canada, Latin America, India, and the Philippines. Oversees policies, regulatory change, risk assessments, controls, governance, reporting, monitoring, and issue remediation. Provides credible challenge to business stakeholders, advises executives on emerging risks, manages distributed teams and subject matter experts, drives technology-enabled process improvements, and develops talent and succession pipelines.

Own the requirement-to-reporting lifecycle for compliance analytics, translating business needs into functional specifications, metrics, data mappings, transformation logic, and reporting products. Partner with business leaders, data engineers, and executives to address data gaps, define KPIs, build scalable pipelines, conduct UAT, validate data integrity, and deliver intuitive dashboards using Tableau, Power BI, Mode, or similar tools.

Designs and owns Wise’s global product risk and compliance program for credit cards. Translates regulatory and card-scheme requirements for Product and Engineering teams, establishes controls and risk metrics, coordinates remediation, and reports program health to internal and external stakeholders. Leads regulatory, financial crime, and risk discussions while driving customer-focused improvements and supporting global regulatory initiatives.

Lead the design, scalability, and execution of Wise Europe's financial crime compliance framework for platform partnerships. Oversee correspondent banking partner onboarding, ongoing monitoring, product launches, risk mitigation, control effectiveness, and key risk indicators. Advise Product, Operations, AMLCO, senior leadership, regulators, and external partners on complex AML decisions. Communicate strategic risk insights to the Board, defend compliance standards, and coach compliance specialists and cross-functional teams.

Leads end-to-end compliance and integrity risk assessments across international business units. Responsibilities include planning assessments, interviewing stakeholders, transaction testing, data analysis, evaluating regulatory and third-party risks, reporting findings to executives, tracking remediation, identifying misconduct, and improving assessment methodologies. Requires strong judgment, investigative and analytical skills, executive communication, international compliance expertise, and at least 10 years of relevant experience.

Leads second-line financial crime compliance oversight for digital asset activities across EMEA. Advises on AML, sanctions, anti-corruption, risk assessments, regulatory requirements, new product expansion, client onboarding, and fintech initiatives. Partners with senior stakeholders, supports audits and regulatory requests, contributes to global standards and training, represents the region in governance forums, and develops risk mitigation recommendations for cryptoassets, tokenized products, custodians, wallets, and blockchain-based settlement mechanisms.

Drive new customer acquisition and revenue growth across EMEA by exceeding quotas, building prospect pipelines, executing outbound strategies, developing partnerships, and consulting senior executives. The role involves understanding regional markets, accelerating buying processes, and providing product feedback. This is a hybrid London-based position requiring at least two office days per week.

Provides compliance advisory support to EMEA and global research teams, focusing on research independence, conflicts of interest, information barriers, regulatory obligations, and reputational risk. Develops policies, training, risk assessments, monitoring activities, and control processes. Investigates and escalates compliance issues, supports audits and regulatory examinations, and manages cross-functional compliance projects across regions and business lines.

Manage global product compliance for financial promotions across Wise’s marketing and product teams. Responsibilities include reviewing campaigns, interpreting financial regulations, designing compliance frameworks and controls, assessing regulatory risks, advising stakeholders, overseeing management information, managing audits, and delivering issue remediation. The role requires practical application of regulations across multiple jurisdictions and collaboration with global teams in a fast-moving fintech environment.

Conducts global cybersecurity compliance assessments against ISO, NIST, and TISAX frameworks; identifies control deficiencies, evaluates risk, maintains remediation records, and develops compliance metrics. Partners with IT, legal, governance, and security teams to address issues, trains ISMS managers, monitors risk indicators, and coordinates internal and external audits.

Owns statutory reporting, local accounting records, regulatory compliance, and filing calendars across international legal entities. Coordinates statutory accounts, audits, advisors, and local authorities; monitors legislative changes; establishes compliant reporting processes for new markets; and develops internal controls and documentation. Requires extensive statutory accounting or financial reporting experience, international compliance expertise, and strong organizational and communication skills.

Leads global HAFS compliance assurance, risk-based control testing, remediation, finance process integration, and transformation across shared services and hotel entities. The role designs standardized controls and procedures, analyzes financial data, supports system implementations, prepares executive reporting, manages audit relationships, delivers training, and develops compliance team members. It requires extensive accounting, SOX, internal controls, finance transformation, stakeholder management, and people leadership experience in global or matrix environments.

Create and improve governance, risk, and compliance security labs, challenges, and learning content. Research regulations and standards, develop practical simulations, peer-review cyber ranges, simplify complex cybersecurity concepts, and advise engineering and product teams on security and privacy by design. The role requires GRC audit experience, knowledge of major compliance frameworks, strong cybersecurity fundamentals, and the ability to create engaging training for technical and non-technical users.

Lead second-line Compliance and Operational Risk oversight for Technology across international lines, advising on technology, data, information security and AI risks. Provide SME regulatory guidance, challenge controls, lead risk assessments, governance, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and drive process improvements for global CIB, Commercial Banking and Payments.

Own and enhance AML control design and risk detection strategy across Wise’s global products. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to implement compliant, scalable controls, improve automation and detection quality, reduce customer friction, and assess control effectiveness through data and testing. Translate regulatory developments into product requirements, support financial crime risk assessments, and lead remediation projects arising from audits, incidents, and regulatory feedback.

Senior compliance and operational risk specialist providing independent oversight and advisory for international transaction processing, execution and fraud risks. Build and maintain horizontal risk frameworks, engage senior stakeholders and ERM teams, drive regulatory change implementation, monitor risk metrics and remediation, use AI and data-driven insights, and lead process improvements to ensure legal-entity compliance across EMEA, APAC and Americas.

Leads UK and international trade compliance across export controls, sanctions, customs, licensing, classification, screening, audits, and regulatory engagement. Manages regional analysts, oversees policies and controls, advises business stakeholders, monitors regulatory changes, delivers training, and drives technology-enabled process improvements across EMEA and APAC.

Manage legal, compliance, corporate governance, risk management, and executive support operations for senior leadership. Responsibilities include coordinating counsel and service providers, maintaining compliance calendars and records, organizing board and Risk Committee activities, tracking contracts and deadlines, preparing executive materials, and improving recurring processes. The role requires strong organization, discretion, communication, judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities independently in a financial services environment.

Conducts independent internal audits across the organisation, with a primary focus on ISO 27001/27002 and information security controls. Plans, executes, and reports on Cyber Essentials Plus, backup and restoration, physical security, ISO 9001, and other ISO audits. Performs compliance spot-checks, analyses client due diligence questionnaires, identifies control gaps, advises stakeholders, delivers training, and supports continuous improvement across UK and Paris offices.

Coordinates building and asset compliance activities, inspections, repairs, contractors, certificates, risk mitigation, and compliance records. The role manages work orders, contract performance, invoices, reporting, stakeholder communications, and regulatory requirements across shared housing spaces. It also supports scheduling, data integrity, supplier management, financial controls, and continuous process improvement while ensuring health, safety, and data protection obligations are met.