Chief Compliance Officer

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Our client is a global wholesale banking business based in London. With an international reach, they are a truly first class employer.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Promoting a compliance culture, championing compliance and providing compliance thought leadership.
  • Leadership and management of the Compliance team.
  • Planning and implementing the UK compliance strategy, including embedding best practices.
  • Support and advisory services to lines of business and corporate support areas, including but not limited to, on business as usual queries, new business initiatives and regulations.
  • Liaising with the FCA and PRA.
  • Liaising with relevant financial services trade bodies and similar bodies, banks, and financial institutions with similar ethos and outlook, ensuring visibility for the bank and networking opportunities.
  • Liaising with relevant external stakeholders (for example, legal counsel, consultants and vendors).
  • Oversight of the Compliance team in the maintenance of compliance policies.
  • Oversight of the compliance training programme, including implementation of the yearly training plan, identification of relevant training courses and the face to face delivery of certain training courses.
  • Oversight of the Compliance monitoring and surveillance programme.
  • Oversight of the review and implementation of the conduct risk framework.
  • Oversight of assessing and implementing relevant regulations and regulatory outputs (for example, speeches, good and poor practices, thematic reports, surveys, reports).
  • Responsibility for the insider dealing and market abuse aspects of financial crime (excluding fraud, bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions).
  • Responsibility for complaints handling.
  • Responsible for compliance reporting to senior management and relevant board(s).
  • Responsibility for conduct rules training of Capital Markets London staff.
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
  • Minimum of 10 years' experience in compliance in the international banking and the wholesale financial markets
  • Experience and strong knowledge of UK regulations
  • Good knowledge and experience of dealing with the regulators
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Ability to translate strategic priorities and adopt a proactive approach to the compliance mission and take a balanced view
  • Experience of establishing, reforming and managing teams
  • A logical and practical approach to work
  • Strong attention to detail and the ability meet deadlines with minimal supervision

For further information please contact Hannah Tabatabai

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THE COMPANY:

Our client is a global wholesale banking business based in London. With an international reach, they are a truly first class employer.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Promoting a compliance culture, championing compliance and providing compliance thought leadership.
  • Leadership and management of the Compliance team.
  • Planning and implementing the UK compliance strategy, including embedding best practices.
  • Support and advisory services to lines of business and corporate support areas, including but not limited to, on business as usual queries, new business initiatives and regulations.
  • Liaising with the FCA and PRA.
  • Liaising with relevant financial services trade bodies and similar bodies, banks, and financial institutions with similar ethos and outlook, ensuring visibility for the bank and networking opportunities.
  • Liaising with relevant external stakeholders (for example, legal counsel, consultants and vendors).
  • Oversight of the Compliance team in the maintenance of compliance policies.
  • Oversight of the compliance training programme, including implementation of the yearly training plan, identification of relevant training courses and the face to face delivery of certain training courses.
  • Oversight of the Compliance monitoring and surveillance programme.
  • Oversight of the review and implementation of the conduct risk framework.
  • Oversight of assessing and implementing relevant regulations and regulatory outputs (for example, speeches, good and poor practices, thematic reports, surveys, reports).
  • Responsibility for the insider dealing and market abuse aspects of financial crime (excluding fraud, bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions).
  • Responsibility for complaints handling.
  • Responsible for compliance reporting to senior management and relevant board(s).
  • Responsibility for conduct rules training of Capital Markets London staff.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

  • Minimum of 10 years’ experience in compliance in the international banking and the wholesale financial markets
  • Experience and strong knowledge of UK regulations
  • Good knowledge and experience of dealing with the regulators
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Ability to translate strategic priorities and adopt a proactive approach to the compliance mission and take a balanced view
  • Experience of establishing, reforming and managing teams
  • A logical and practical approach to work
  • Strong attention to detail and the ability meet deadlines with minimal supervision

For further information please contact Hannah Tabatabai

Posted: May 1st, 2026