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HEAD OF COMPLIANCE & MLRO - CORPORATE BANKING EXPERIENCE REQUIRED - Compliance Recruitment Solutions

Compliance Recruitment SolutionsLondon🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 1 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

Advance your career by leading compliance and financial crime initiatives for a leading foreign bank, enjoying a hybrid work model and significant impact. You'll thrive if you have corporate banking compliance experience and a strategic mindset, with a highly competitive compensation package of £140K - £180K plus bonus and benefits. Apply now to shape the future of compliance at this reputable institution.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Leader
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
London, United Kingdom
Posted
14 hours ago
Due DiligenceRegulatory Reporting

Job Description

HEAD OF COMPLIANCE & MLRO - CORPORATE BANKING EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Ref: 4195G

£140K - £180K + Bonus & Benefits City

We have been appointed by our client, the UK Branch Office of a Leading Foreign Bank, to help

source a new Head of Compliance & MLRO for their London Office. The role will report directly

to the UK General Manager and UK Board. Duties will include:

 Act as the Bank’s SMF16 Compliance Oversight function holder and provide effective

oversight of the Bank’s compliance with applicable FCA and PRA requirements.

 Develop, execute, maintain, review and enhance the Bank’s regulatory compliance

framework, including the Compliance Manual, policies, procedures, compliance

monitoring framework and related governance documents.

 Develop, execute, maintain, review and enhance a risk-based Compliance Monitoring

Plan, including thematic reviews, control testing, recommendations, follow-up actions

and reporting of findings.

 Monitor developments in applicable UK regulatory requirements, supervisory

expectations and good industry practice, and assess their impact on the Bank.

 Prepare and deliver compliance Management Information (“MI”) and reports to the

Board, the Audit & Risk Committee, senior management.

 Oversee and coordinate the Bank’s non-financial regulatory reporting obligations,

ensuring timely, accurate and complete submissions and appropriate internal approval.

 Liaise with the FCA, PRA, auditors, and other external stakeholders as required.

 Act as the Bank’s SMF17 Money Laundering Reporting Officer and serve as the focal

point for the Bank’s AML, counter-terrorist financing, sanctions and wider financial

crime compliance activities.

 Develop, execute, maintain, review and enhance the Bank’s financial crime framework,

including policies and procedures covering AML/CTF, sanctions, customer due diligence,

enhanced due diligence, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, bribery

and corruption, fraud and related controls.

 Act as the Bank’s Data Protection Officer (“DPO”), and act as the main point of contact

for data protection matters.

You will have gained solid Compliance and AML experience in a similar Corporate Banking or

Foreign Bank Branch environment with a detailed knowledge of FCA & PRA rules and a good

understanding of AML requirements. You must also have been be SMF 16 or 17 approved (or be

eligible to hold SMF 16 &17 if not previously been approved).

So, if that sounds like you, then please send your details to Gary Collins in the first instance

gary@symescollins.com (Including a contact number & email) however please note we cannot

reply to all applications so only successful applications will be contacted (although under no

circumstance are your details ever passed on without your specific permission).

Symes Collins LPC, part of the Compliance Recruitment Solutions Limited (CRS) Group are acting

as an employment agency in relation to this role.

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