Job description
About Salary Finance
Working with employers, we provide a financial wellbeing platform as an employee benefit, helping employees to understand their money better, get out of debt faster and save for their future. We already have a reach of over 4,000,000 employees through our relationships with over 600 of the biggest companies in the UK.
By improving employee financial wellbeing, we have a very real and meaningful impact on people's lives. We remove the stress and worry associated with financial difficulties by dramatically reducing the interest rates employees pay on their personal debt, and provide them with the tools needed to start saving sooner and be more financially secure. We are backed by some of the biggest brands, including investments from Blenheim Chalcot (the UK's leading venture builder), Legal and General (the FTSE 100 insurer and asset manager), Experian and Goldman Sacs, and funding partnerships with JP Morgan and Virgin Money.
Launched in 2015, we have made excellent progress, and are scaling fast. We are named BITC's Responsible Business of Year 2018, included in KPMG's Global Fintech 100, listed top of the Forbes' list of socially-responsible startups, and profiled by the Financial Times, the Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Telegraph, CityAM and the Institute of Directors.
Your role in our mission
We are looking for an exceptional Compliance Manager who will report to the Head of Compliance to take on a generalist compliance advisory role, with a strong focus on AML, Data Protection and other operational risk areas.
About you
- You've been working in Compliance for a regulated consumer credit business for at least 5 years and are keen for the next challenge
- You are able to explain complex regulation in a way that is accessible and understandable
- You don't wait to be asked to fix a problem or enhance a process, you get stuck in
- You have experience in the following areas:
- AML/Financial Crime
- Fraud
- Data protection
- RegData reporting
- Third party supplier due diligence
- You have a strong grasp of the FCA rules relating to a business like Salary Finance
What you'll do
- Help to shape our AML and Financial Crime framework, working closely with the first line teams to operationalise this, as well support our Compliance Monitoring team in developing a monitoring strategy
- Support the MLRO with investigations, write suspicious activity reports and draft the MLRO annual report
- Provide second line oversight to our data protection activities, including our policies, processes and registers
- Oversee our RegData reporting process and ensure all reports are submitted on time
- Complete third party supplier reviews, both at onboarding and annually, maintaining a critical eye over the processes and enhancing as appropriate
- Work closely with the Head of Compliance and First Line Risk Team to advise on, and help resolve, incidents
- Oversee the business's training programme
- Support the business throughout audit processes, as required
What's in it for you?
- Company bonus scheme
- 25 days holiday with an extra day off on your birthday
- Hybrid working arrangements so you can work from the office and from home with a budget to help you get set up
- Generous company benefits to include pension and life assurance and an annual allowance to spend on medical insurance, health cash plan, denplan, gym memberships
- Enhanced policies that are family and pet friendly, to include company sick pay and peternity leave
- Annual personal learning budget
- Great career development in a fast paced environment
- Regular company socials
- Volunteer days as part of our CSR program
- Being part of a collaborative and entrepreneurial team working in our brand new, purpose-built offices at Scale Space, White City
- Being part of a community of Blenheim Chalcot-backed fintech growth businesses including ClearScore, Liberis, Kodoo and Modulr, with opportunities to share and learn together
- More great perks include complimentary fresh fruit weekly, cycle to work, help to save and much more!
Who you are
We embrace our differences, but there's one thing we like to share, which is our values, so it's important to us that you are:
- Fearless, and able to make the impossible possible.
- Responsible, and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society.
- Dedicated and want to commit to an exciting journey even through the highs and lows.
- Empathetic and truly care about every colleague and customer.
- United, because you understand we achieve more when we work as a team.
- Humble, and take feedback as a way to continuously improve.
We're looking for people that will get stuck in and make a difference. We have a great collaborative, entrepreneurial team and are passionate about what we do. If you want to join a team that is changing people's lives for the better then we'd love to hear from you.
Learn more at salaryfinance.com.
Salary Finance is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where all employees and applicants can flourish.