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Compliance Officer

  • Location:

    City of London

  • Sector:

    Compliance

  • Job type:

    Permanent.

  • Salary:

    85000

  • Contact:

    Georgina Housden

  • Contact email:

    georgina@rutherfordsearch.com

  • Contact phone:

    02037780856

  • Job ref:

    HOG11207

  • Published:

    almost 3 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2021-06-03

​Our Client

Our client, a crypto brokerage based in the City of London, are looking to expand their exciting business with an experienced Compliance Officer. This role sits in a small team, directly reporting into the Head of Compliance so it will allow a considerable responsibility and exposure.

Key Duties

Your main responsibilities will include:

  • Leading the compliance function

  • Compliance monitoring and testing

  • Providing high quality and regulatory advice to the business

  • Keeping abreast of regulatory changes (horizon scanning)

  • Designing and implementing policies and procedures

  • Supporting ad hoc regulatory projects

  • Assisting with financial crime matters

  • Stakeholder management

  • Compliance training

Your Profile

  • A wealth of compliance experience and a generalist skillset gained within crypto/brokerage

  • Strong knowledge of the FCA handbook, and the regulatory environment

  • Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence

  • Diligent, credible and autonomous in decision making

Offices are based in Mayfair, but there will be a considerable amount of flexibility to work from home.

Salary: £70,000 - £100,000 + benefits

About Rutherford

Rutherford is a boutique search firm located in London. Our consultants are the executive specialists in compliance recruitment, and also in financial crime, legal and cyber security, all within the financial and professional services sectors in the United Kingdom and New York. We use our carefully-curated relationships, networks and market knowledge to find the best fit for the clients in hand. We work with a wide range of clients, spanning from advisors, management consultants, corporate and commercial banks, brokers, exchanges, MTFs and financial tech, through to global investment managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, investment banks and technology firms. We began as a compliance recruitment firm in London and expanded to offer new resourcing expertise across legal and cyber recruitment. We have been a leading legal and compliance agency in London for a decade and are excited about bringing our expanded offering into the technology area.

Remote Working

We are currently looking for regionally-located Compliance professionals from across the United Kingdom who would be interested in working for London firms on an interim working from home basis: Kent, East Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Surrey or Hampshire.


We are also interested in hearing from candidates in Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, Winchester and Salisbury.