Deputy Head of Financial Crime Compliance in London

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The Deputy Head of Financial Crime Compliance will play a hands-on leadership role in delivering Capital.com's Second Line oversight of financial crime risk, with primary responsibility for executing, embedding, and assuring the effectiveness of the Group’s financial crime frameworks, policies, and minimum standards across the business. The role is focused on translating strategy into practical, operating controls, and ensuring those controls remain effective, scalable, and aligned to regulatory expectations across entities, products, and jurisdictions.

In addition, the role will support the Group Head of Compliance, Regulatory Risk, Assurance and Financial Crime in delivering enhancements to the identification, assessment, and management of regulatory risk, ensuring strong alignment between financial crime risk, broader compliance risk, and enterprise risk management frameworks. Working closely with First Line Product, Operations, and Technology teams, the Deputy Head will provide clear, timely challenge and practical guidance on financial crime and regulatory risks associated with business change.

The role will actively support the build-out, enhancement, and stabilisation of controls during periods of growth or regulatory change, ensuring they are operationally effective before being embedded within the First Line. The Deputy Head will act as a senior escalation point for material financial crime and regulatory risk issues, breaches, and emerging risks. In the absence of the Group Head of Compliance, Regulatory Risk, Assurance and Financial Crime, the Deputy Head will provide operational continuity, maintaining oversight, decision-making, and regulatory responsiveness.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the enhancement and implementation of key financial crime frameworks and operating models.
• Reviewing and challenging financial crime risk controls and model design, rule sets, thresholds, and operational procedures to ensure they are proportionate, defensible, scalable, and compliant.
• Acting as a senior point of contact for regulatory engagement, examinations, and audits, presenting an independent, well-evidenced view of financial crime and regulatory risk management.
• Ensuring new business initiatives incorporate effective financial crime and regulatory controls from design through to implementation.
• Providing senior regulatory advice and challenge to Heads of Compliance across jurisdictions on financial crime and regulatory compliance matters.
• Supporting the identification and management of regulatory risk by assessing the impact of regulatory change, supervisory feedback, and thematic risk areas on the Group’s financial crime and compliance frameworks.
• Leading regulatory change initiatives within the financial crime domain, ensuring policies, standards, and controls are updated and embedded in response to evolving regulatory expectations.
• Leading the delivery of the Business-wide Financial Crime Risk Assessment (BWRA), including hands-on review and challenge of data inputs.
• Overseeing the design and delivery of clear, insightful MI, risk dashboards, and assurance reporting to Executive Management, Board and Committee forums, and regulators.
• Overseeing ongoing financial crime monitoring and assurance, working closely with the Compliance Monitoring Manager.
• Driving effective financial crime issue management, ensuring issues, findings, and actions are clearly owned, tracked, escalated, and closed.
• Helping lead and develop a high-performing Second Line team, providing coaching, training, T&C oversight, and development.
• Driving day-to-day risk culture through visible leadership, challenge, and support.

Qualifications & Skills

• A minimum of 7 years’ experience in financial crime compliance, AML advisory, risk oversight, or related roles within financial services or fintech environments.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining group-wide financial crime and risk management frameworks.
• Proven experience in establishing, enhancing, or remediating financial crime operational functions.
• Experience engaging directly with multiple global regulators relevant to Capital.com’s operating model.
• A professional qualification in AML, financial crime, or risk management is desirable.
• Prior regulatory approval in a controlled or senior compliance function is desirable.
• Deep understanding of AML/CTF, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption (ABC), fraud, and broader regulatory risk requirements.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise risk management and financial crime systems.
• Proven ability to interpret regulatory expectations and translate them into practical frameworks.
• Strong leadership and collaboration capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Highly analytical with strong attention to detail.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: We believe great work deserves great pay!
• Work-Life Harmony: Join a company that genuinely cares about you.
• Generous Time Off: Our annual leave policy lets you recharge and enjoy life outside of work.
• Employee Referral Program: Bring your talented friends on board and get rewarded.
• Comprehensive Health & Pension Benefits: From medical insurance to pension plans.
• Workation Wonderland: Live your digital nomad dreams with 30 extra days to work remotely.
• Volunteer Days: Take two additional paid days each year to support causes you care about.

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