Compliance Manager & MLRO

We are recruiting for a high-growth specialist finance business looking to appoint a Compliance Manager & MLRO. This is a newly created position that will play a key role in strengthening the firm’s compliance framework, financial crime controls, fraud prevention processes and operational governance as the business continues to scale.

Reporting directly into senior leadership, the successful candidate will work closely with teams across operations, underwriting, finance, collections and technology to ensure robust controls are maintained while supporting the continued growth of the business.

The successful candidate will be comfortable operating within a fast-paced environment where processes, controls and governance frameworks continue to evolve and offers the opportunity to take ownership of the compliance function whilst helping to shape the future governance, risk and financial crime framework of a growing organisation.

Job Requirements:

• Maintain and develop the company’s operational compliance framework
• Act as MLRO for the business where required
• Monitor and strengthen fraud prevention processes across the lending journey
• Conduct operational compliance reviews across onboarding, underwriting, collections, broker management, and customer servicing
• Review broker and introducer activity to ensure company standards and processes are being followed
• Support complaint handling, investigations, and escalated customer matters
• Investigate suspicious activity, fraud concerns, documentation irregularities, and operational control failures
• Work closely with operational teams to identify risks, process weaknesses, and improvement opportunities
• Work alongside the technology team to improve fraud monitoring, operational controls, governance processes, and reporting visibility
• Minimum 5 to 7 years’ experience within compliance, fraud prevention, operational risk, AML, lending operations, or financial services
• Previous experience operating as an MLRO or supporting MLRO responsibilities preferred
• Experience within B2B lending, broker-led finance, alternative lending, fintech, or financial services preferred
• Strong understanding of operational controls, governance, AML, KYC, fraud prevention, and financial crime processes

Unless otherwise stated, candidates must have the right to work in the UK.

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