Head of Compliance

4 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom LendingCrowd Full time

LendingCrowd is a leading fintech business, shaping the way SMEs borrow money. Blending the latest cutting-edge technology with financial experience and backing, we have developed a scalable lending platform that provides an attractive alternative to the current limitations of business borrowing – we encourage people to think outside the bank

Founded in 2014 and born out of Edinburgh’s vibrant and growing fintech scene, LendingCrowd has driven over £320m in lending to small businesses, including a significant share of lending to businesses in Scotland. LendingCrowd is positioned to become the trusted choice for SME financing, with a culture of ‘doing the right thing’ at the core of our purpose.

We actively encourage the generation and development of ideas from all team members to grow the business. We offer hybrid working and have our office in central Edinburgh.

The Role

As a key part of our expansion, we are looking for an experienced and highly capable Head of Compliance to join our team. This is an exciting time in the evolution of our business as we seek to build on and embed our position as a quality provider of debt to UK SMEs.

Reporting to our Chief Executive Officer, this is a broad role for an experienced compliance professional who will be responsible for the operational and reporting capacity in all compliance, regulatory, governance and risk matters, ensuring that the company meets its FCA obligations and customers receive good outcomes.

Responsibilities
  • Overseeing and managing the compliance function, holding SMF16 responsibilities
  • Directing the evolution of the company’s Compliance Monitoring Framework
  • Performing thematic oversight to support the company’s policy management and regulatory matters, providing reports to management
  • Proactively influencing, training and supporting others to understand their responsibilities
  • Managing Senior Managers & Certification Regime and data protection processes
  • Reviewing complaint responses and managing the company’s Complaints Management Framework
  • Managing legal process and execution, covering a suite of template lending and operational documentation
  • Directing the execution of the company’s Governance Framework, inputting to Board and Committee papers on matters relating to regulatory compliance risk
  • Championing good customer outcomes across the company
Skills and Experience

In terms of skills and experience, we would expect you to display experience of:

  • Working within an FCA-regulated business at manager or head of level
  • Evolving compliance management frameworks to suit changing business risks
  • Directing compliance monitoring in a regulated financial services environment
  • Managing reporting on compliance monitoring outputs, ensuring these are in a clear and straightforward format
  • Fulfilling SMF16 responsibilities
  • FCA Consumer Duty requirements
  • Managing compliance with the FCA’s Senior Managers & Certification Regime

It would also be beneficial if you have:

  • Experience of financial crime mitigation activities
  • Experience of managing complaints process compliance
  • Strong stakeholder management skills and experience
Opportunities for further development

We sponsor team members through Chartered Banker Institute qualifications to ensure that they build a career at LendingCrowd beyond the role.

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