Compliance specialist in London

Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.

Function: General Counsel

Reports to: VP ESG & Compliance

Set up: Hybrid

Locations: UK, Spain, Portugal, Romania

Why we need this role

Are you a compliance professional who likes making things happen? This role keeps Colts Compliance-by-Design running smoothly maintaining the toolkit, coordinating reviews, and driving actions through to closure. To scale Colts Compliance-by-Design approach, we need someone who can bring structure, pace and consistency to our compliance activity. Youll keep the toolkit current, coordinate review cycles, and ensure actions are tracked and closed working across Legal, Risk, Assurance, Security and Internal Audit to identify gaps, evidence progress, and provide reporting leaders can rely on.

What you will do

• Implementing industry best practice compliance methodologies, policies, procedures and frameworks within Colt, providing constructive challenge, expertise and working positively to find efficient solutions to compliance related matters.
• Delivering compliance reviews, employee training, reporting and process/control improvements.

Typical tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Make compliance easy to do: embed it into everyday decisions, not after-the-fact checks.
• Own the compliance toolkit: keep it sharp, simple and adopted (playbooks, templates, checklists and guidance).
• Run reviews like improvement sprints: focus on what matters, get the evidence, fix root causes, close actions.
• Join up with Legal, Risk, Assurance, Security and Internal Audit: reduce duplication and raise the standard together.
• Drive issue closure: lock in owners and dates, unblock delivery, and stop the same problems coming back.
• Cut manual work: standardise the basics and automate workflows, evidence capture and reporting.
• Ditch the tick-box training: deliver short, targeted comms that people remember and act on.
• Be the go-to adviser: give fast, practical guidance and escalate the genuinely complex issues.
• Stay ahead of change: track regulatory and policy updates and keep our controls and guidance current.
• Make reporting useful: dashboards and metrics that show whats working, whats not, and where to act.

What we're looking for

• Relevant compliance, risk, assurance, audit, legal, or governance experience (typically 25+ years) in a regulated environment.
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience) in business, finance, legal or a related field (desirable).
• Experience supporting compliance reviews, monitoring activities, risk-based testing, or control assessments (planning, evidence gathering, documenting outcomes, tracking actions).
• Working knowledge of compliance frameworks and how policies, standards and controls operate within a complex global organisation.
• Ability to understand and interpret policy, legal and contractual language with support from subject matter experts.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail; able to organise evidence and draw clear conclusions.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, able to translate requirements into practical guidance.
• Strong stakeholder management across all levels and collaboration skills; confident working across functions and cultures.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and escalate issues appropriately.
• Good understanding of governance, risk and control concepts and frameworks and how they apply in practice.
• Ability to follow defined methodologies to support monitoring, reviews, and issue management.
• Working knowledge of data and reporting tools (e.g., Excel) to produce accurate metrics and management information.
• Professional judgement, integrity and confidence to raise concerns and provide constructive challenge.
• Practical approach to problem solving, with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Innovative thinking, always looking for new and dynamic ways to find solutions to complex problems.
• Proactive and organised, able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Collaborative and supportive of business priorities while maintaining appropriate challenge.

Might haves:

• Experience in the telecommunications industry and/or knowledge of telco products, processes and regulatory requirements is preferable.
• An industry-recognised compliance qualification (e.g., International Compliance Association (ICA)) is desirable.

What we offer you:

Looking to make a mark? At Colt, youll make a difference. Because around here, we empower people. We dont tell you what to do. Instead, we employ people we trust, who come together across the globe to create intelligent solutions.

Our global teams are full of ambitious, driven people, all working together towards one shared purpose: to put the power of the digital universe in the hands of our customers wherever, whenever and however they want.

We give our people the opportunity to inspire and lead teams, and work on projects that connect people, cities, businesses, and ideas. We want you to help us change the world, for the better.

Diversity and inclusion

Inclusion and valuing diversity of thought and experience are at the heart of our culture here at Colt. From day one, youll be encouraged to be yourself because we believe thats what helps our people to thrive. We welcome people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, neurodiversity, age, marital status, pregnancy status, or place of birth.

Most recently we have:

• Signed the UN Women Empowerment Principles which guide our Gender Action Plan
• Trained 60 (and growing) Colties to be Mental Health First Aiders

Please speak with a member of our recruitment team if you require adjustments to our recruitment process to support you. For more information about our Inclusion and Diversity agenda, visit our DEI pages.

Benefits

Our benefits support you through all parts of life, for both physical and mental health.

• Flexible working hours and the option to work from home.
• Extensive induction program with experienced mentors and buddies.
• Opportunities for further development and educational opportunities.
• Global Family Leave Policy.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Internal inclusion & diversity employee networks.

A global network

When you join Colt you become part of our global network. We are proud of our colleagues and the stories and experience they bring - take a look at Our People site including our Empowered Women in Tech.