Top Compliance Jobs in London

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.

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.

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.

Leads a data science and AI/ML team supporting risk management and compliance. Oversees predictive models, LLM solutions, autonomous agents, and enterprise AI applications from design through deployment and monitoring. Partners with Product, Business, and Engineering teams to embed AI into workflows, improve operational efficiency, and deliver business value. Ensures model risk management, responsible AI, explainability, fairness, governance, drift monitoring, and retraining. Mentors teams, communicates insights to senior leadership, and guides research, experimentation, and innovation.

Build and maintain DevSecOps tooling for AWS cloud environments, including threat modeling, security guardrails, policy-as-code, vulnerability analysis, compliance reporting, and runtime security visibility. Develop automation for security findings and software supply chain controls, support audits and incident response, and provide remediation guidance to engineering teams. Collaborate with platform engineers, product squads, risk, and governance teams while using authorized AI-assisted development tools securely and validating generated outputs.

Oversee VAT returns and indirect tax reporting for European legal entities, partnering with offshore teams to ensure controlled delivery. Monitor VAT risks and regulatory developments, resolve issues, support audits, and strengthen stakeholder relationships. Lead process simplification, automation, data-driven controls, and operating-model improvements across EMEA while advising on technical VAT matters and emerging tax developments.

Manage market data compliance activities, exchange and broker licensing, application onboarding, and external audits. Serve as a relationship contact for exchanges, brokers, internal stakeholders, and audit providers. Identify and mitigate compliance issues, communicate pricing and policy changes, and support cost efficiency, operational standards, and service improvements across proprietary applications.

Build and secure ClaimSorted’s infrastructure, including access controls, PII protection, compliance, observability, reliability, database performance, and data pipelines. Standardize infrastructure practices, improve latency and cost, and create self-service analytics capabilities for claims and operations teams. The role owns ambiguous infrastructure priorities and drives engineering standards across the organization.

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.

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 employee relations and employment compliance across six EMEA markets. Owns complex investigations, grievances, disciplinary actions, performance plans, terminations, statutory obligations, works council and union engagement, whistleblowing implementation, and jurisdictional risk. Builds the regional ER capability, establishes consistent processes and standards, advises People leadership, partners with Employment Counsel, and collaborates globally on case taxonomy, systems, and calibration.

As a Compliance Officer, you will ensure regulatory compliance across product development and business operations. You will assess regulatory requirements for expansion, manage compliance policies, and conduct audits, providing strategic guidance for sustainable growth.

Lead regional trade compliance for the UK and Europe: develop and execute export control strategies, manage licensing (SPIRE/SIEL/OIEL/OGEL), classify products/software, advise stakeholders, maintain audit-ready documentation, implement compliance procedures, monitor regulatory changes, and streamline classification and licensing processes across programs.

Own recurring GRC workflows including third-party risk assessments, customer security requests, security awareness, access reviews, audit evidence collection, and risk and policy tracking. Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders, maintain audit-ready records, support SOC and ISO assessments, identify remediation needs, and improve or automate GRC processes using approved tools and AI while protecting confidential information.

Leads the UK compliance function for a digital insurance company, developing regulatory strategy, Consumer Duty implementation, risk-based frameworks, governance, monitoring, and operational controls. Serves as the primary regulatory contact and SMF16/SMF17 holder while advising executives, the board, technology, product, finance, and commercial teams. The role manages compliance business partnering, monitoring, and governance teams and supports compliant innovation involving digital distribution, e-commerce, and algorithmic pricing.

Own Wise's UK operational resilience and outsourcing framework within the first-line Product Compliance and Risk team. Lead regulatory assessments, important business service mapping, impact tolerance management, resilience testing, self-assessments, board reporting, internal controls, third-party risk governance, due diligence, monitoring, contract requirements, change management, and exit planning. Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Risk, and Operations teams to ensure payment and investment products comply with UK regulatory expectations.

Manage risk and compliance operations for a law firm, including client onboarding, conflicts analysis, AML, sanctions and adverse media screening, ongoing monitoring, high-risk registers, regulatory compliance, policy development and training. The role supervises onboarding activities, resolves escalated issues, supports SRA regulatory returns, maintains compliance records, and advises colleagues on legal and regulatory matters.

Leads operational coordination, compliance oversight, and assurance for Camden’s response to Awaab’s Law hazards. The role monitors cases from referral through closure, ensures statutory and internal deadlines are met, manages escalations, tracks performance and resident risk, and provides reliable reporting to senior managers. It coordinates internal teams, contractors, TMOs, and partner services while promoting safe, compliant, resident-focused delivery, continuous improvement, effective governance, and a supportive high-performing team culture.

Manages complex and escalated Awaab’s Law cases, monitoring statutory deadlines, identifying risks, coordinating repairs and housing teams, and ensuring compliance. The role manages Compliance Coordinators, supports resident safety, oversees evidence and audit trails, works with contractors and partner services, and escalates barriers affecting vulnerable residents. It also provides assurance, uses case data to identify trends, and supports continuous service improvement while acting as deputy to the Compliance Manager when required.

Manage compliance, privacy, and data protection for a healthcare SaaS platform handling sensitive patient data across the UK, France, and Ireland. Responsibilities include maintaining policies and risk registers, conducting DPIAs, handling DSARs and complaints, supporting audits and clinical safety initiatives, advising product and commercial teams, monitoring regulatory changes, and delivering company-wide compliance training. The role requires practical UK and EU GDPR expertise, healthcare data experience, and a pragmatic approach in an agile SaaS environment.

Oversee UK regulatory compliance for an electronic money institution within the second line of defence. Maintain compliance policies, monitoring frameworks, safeguarding and conduct controls, and financial promotions approvals. Track regulatory developments, prepare senior management and board reporting, support FCA engagement, and oversee operational resilience, complaints, Consumer Duty, and outsourcing compliance. Provide regulatory advice to product, engineering, and commercial teams launching payments, APIs, stablecoin capabilities, and digital asset services. Support future UK cryptoasset license applications.