[Hiring] Compliance Advisory Manager @Griffin

Role Description

You'll join our Operational Controls team within the Service guild, the backbone of how Griffin stays compliant and keeps operational risk visible and manageable as we scale. Working closely with Protect (our second line) and across all operations functions, you'll be the first person dedicated to compliance within the team. You'll define what great compliance support looks like here, keeping Griffin's products and customer outcomes in shape as we grow.

The opportunity involves:

• Bringing regulatory expertise to help our operations, commercial and product teams.
• Guiding major launches, like card issuing, from first idea to go live.
• Ensuring live products have clear governance and outcome monitoring.

To do this you'll be involved in:

• Product development: Turning regulation into clear requirements, customer journeys, T&Cs and fair value assessments from first idea through product approval to launch.
• Product lifecycle management: Keeping live products compliant through periodic fair value assessments, outcome monitoring, reviews, changes and closures.
• Sales: Helping our commercial team check early whether potential partners fit our risk appetite, and reviewing sales material.
• Marketing: Ensuring compliance of marketing materials and financial promotions.
• Service (Operations): Building regulatory requirements into day-to-day operations.
• Regulatory change: Interpreting new rules and ensuring timely changes.
• Issues and reporting: Investigating compliance issues and reporting on risks and outcomes.
• Working with second line (Protect): Collaborating early and sharing necessary evidence.

We expect you to shape this role based on customer needs and technical gaps.

Qualifications

• Compliance experience in the first or second line of a UK regulated firm, ideally a bank, e-money institution or payments firm.
• Practical knowledge of rules like Consumer Duty, BCOBS, CASS, FISMA, Payment Services Regulations, and Money Laundering Regulations.
• A hands-on approach to turning regulation into practical requirements.
• A curious, questioning approach to compliance.
• The confidence to challenge when something isn't right.
• A love of writing with a focus on clarity and readability.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in at least one specialist area, such as payments, cards, Consumer Duty, BCOBS, or financial promotions.
• Experience working in finance or banking.

Benefits

• Salary: £80-90 (DOE)
• Remote-first flexibility: Work from anywhere in the UK
• Work from abroad: Up to 20 days a year
• Time off: 25 days’ holiday, bank holidays and a winter break
• Share options: Own a part of what we’re building together
• Pension: Auto-enrolment into our Penfold scheme
• Insurance: Private medical with Bupa (including family cover) and life insurance with AIG
• Wellbeing: 1:1 coaching and therapy session available through Oliva
• Family leave: Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months on full pay after two years’ service
• AI tools: Access to premium tools including a Claude subscription
• Your setup: Support for creating a comfortable WFH environment