Compliance Specialist in London

At spektr, we are on a mission to automate the world’s most complex compliance workflows through AI. Founded by the team behind HelloFlow (acquired by Trulioo), spektr is building the infrastructure and AI agents to run compliance on scale. Most large financial companies rely on thousands of employees to keep up with manually handling compliance. With spektr’s AI agents, we have the opportunity to change that and completely redefine how compliance operates. This is a rare opportunity to join spektr at the moment of take‑off. We have a proven product, already used by some of the largest and fastest‑moving financial companies like Santander, Pleo, Phantom, and many more. Backed by Northzone, Seedcamp and PSV, we are scaling incredibly fast and changing the way compliance works in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for personal and professional growth is huge.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Most people in compliance know what needs fixing. Very few have the standing to say it out loud - and the tools to actually do something about it.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Embed with clients' compliance and risk teams to understand not just what they do, but why - and where the real friction lives.
• Challenge existing workflows with authority: propose better ways of working that hold up under regulatory scrutiny and senior stakeholder pressure.
• Operate across all levels of a client organisation - from compliance analysts to Chief Risk Officers - with equal credibility.
• Partner with the expansion team to build business cases that quantify the operational and risk value of working differently.
• Translate regulatory complexity into practical, implementable changes that clients can actually adopt.
• Feed structured insights back to the spektr product team: what regulations actually demand, where manual work persists, and where AI can do more.
• Build reusable compliance frameworks and reference workflows that travel across the client base - not one-off fixes.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Deep, first‑hand knowledge of how compliance or risk operates inside a major financial institution – whether from years spent there, or from close advisory work that gave you the same ground‑level view.
• The range to operate across all layers of a corporate organisation – commercially sharp, not just technically sound.
• A genuine drive to improve how compliance works, not just manage it within existing constraints.
• Strong working knowledge of AML, KYC, sanctions, or financial crime frameworks – applied, not theoretical.
• Comfortable working across different types of regulated businesses: banks, fintechs, payment companies, and beyond.
• A constructive challenger: you can push back on how a client has always done things and take them with you.

This role may not be the right fit if you prefer working within a defined compliance function over reshaping it, are uncomfortable in commercial or client‑facing conversations, or need the frameworks and playbooks to already exist before you can move.

BENEFITS

• A rare seat where deep compliance expertise becomes a driver of real change – not just risk management.
• Direct access to the founding team and a front‑row seat to one of Europe's fastest‑growing compliance AI companies.
• The chance to shape how the world's most complex financial institutions approach compliance — from the inside.
• Competitive compensation package.

OUR STANCE

We care deeply about building a diverse, inclusive, and high‑performance team. We encourage applications from candidates who may not tick every box but believe they can raise the bar. We value different perspectives, lived experiences, and ways of thinking - and we actively work to create an environment where everyone can do the best work of their career.