Compliance Manager

Join our team as a Compliance Manager, where you will lead and coordinate key regulatory compliance and privacy oversight activities for our UK entity. You will serve as the operational lead for UK privacy compliance and Data Protection Officer (DPO) responsibilities, while also supporting broader UK regulatory compliance priorities. You will partner closely with various stakeholders to ensure a well-governed, scalable, and effective UK compliance framework.

• Lead and coordinate key second-line regulatory compliance and privacy oversight activities for the UK entity, serving as the operational lead for UK privacy compliance and Data Protection Officer (DPO) responsibilities.
• Oversee existing key UK privacy governance activities, including Data Protection Impact assessments (DPIA’s), privacy risk assessments, incident and breach governance, and regulatory documentation.
• Develop and implement the firm's Privacy Compliance Monitoring Programme (CMP), ensuring its suitability is aligned to the risk appetite of the firm, the regulatory landscape, and the market.
• Processes, data subject rights, consumer protection, conduct risk, vulnerable customers, and related compliance program requirements
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills, with the ability to work effectively with Legal, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Operations, Risk, and Compliance stakeholders
• Sound judgment, strong organisational discipline, and the ability to manage sensitive regulatory matters with discretion and rigor
• 6+ years of experience in regulatory compliance, privacy compliance, risk management, governance, audit, or a related control
• Demonstrated ability to translate legal and regulatory requirements into policies, standards, procedures, governance routines and control expectations
• Function, preferably within financial services, fintech, banking, or another regulated environment, ideally past experience acting as a DPO in a regulated consumer credit firm
• Experience preparing management reporting, governance materials, and escalation summaries for senior stakeholders
• Strong understanding of UK privacy and regulatory compliance expectations, including UK GDPR, governance, DPIA’s, breach
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience; relevant certifications
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and move between strategic governance design and day-to-day execution
• Experience supporting audits, regulatory exams, control reviews, or similar oversight processes in a regulated environment
• Experience operating within a second-line of defence model, including governance, oversight, monitoring, and independent challenge of first-line control environments