General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
3 weeks ago
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. 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 Sachs, and funding partnerships with JP Morgan and Virgin Money.
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.
We’re looking for our next General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer.
You will be responsible for a team of 6, with the opportunity to grow the team further.
Provide strategic and effective leadership to the company, as well as our well-regarded Legal & Compliance Team (which won “Team of the Year 2023”)
You will be responsible for the Legal department (which covers contracts, partnerships, outsourcing, product counselling, data protection, consumer credit, payments (money remittance), disputes, IP and employment & share options) and the Compliance department (which covers monitoring, thematic reviews, audits, regulatory change & horizon scanning, financial crime, regulatory stakeholder management, policies & procedures, registers, SMCR and training).
You will play a key role in important strategic initiatives like funding rounds, debt funding transactions (to fund our consumer loan portfolios) and M&A.
You will produce and present a Chief Compliance Report each quarter to the RiskCo.
You will provide effective advice to the Board on complex governance issues, as well key legal and regulatory issues.
You will manage the Legal & Compliance budget and our panel of law firms.
You are a solicitor qualified in English law
You have strong relevant experience working as a lawyer in-house
You have experience advising on corporate governance and corporate transactions as well as consumer credit and associated regulatory matters
You have strong leadership skills - you enjoy building effective teams and contributing to broader leadership matters of the business
You have run a compliance department before (preferably at a regulated business)
You have experience working in a consumer credit business
Responsible , and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society.
Company bonus scheme
~25 days holiday with an extra day off on your birthday
~ Office first with up to a day a week working from home
~ 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
~ Great career development in a fast paced environment
~ Regular company socials (post covid, although we've got quite good at virtual ones too)
~ Volunteer days as part of our CSR program
~ More great perks to include weekly snacks, tuckshop, cycle to work, help to save and much more
Phone call with our Talent Manager - 20 mins
Video interview with Hiring Manager - 30 mins
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.
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