We are a leading trading platform that is ambitiously expanding to the four corners of the globe. Our top-rated products have won prestigious industry awards for their cutting-edge technology and seamless client experience. We deliver only the best, so we are always in search of the best people to join our ever-growing talented team.
The Deputy Head of Financial Crime Compliance will play a hands-on leadership role in delivering Capital.comβs Second Line oversight of financial crime risk, with primary responsibility for executing, embedding, and assuring the effectiveness of the Groupβs 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.
Temporary contract - 9 months FTC #Contract
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 (including new products, markets, delivery models, and technology changes) incorporate effective financial crime and regulatory controls from design through to implementation.
- Providing senior regulatory advice and challenge to Heads of Compliance across jurisdictions, as required, on financial crime and regulatory Compliance matters, including interpretation of regulatory expectations, application of group standards, and responses to supervisory feedback or emerging risk issues.
- Supporting the identification and management of regulatory risk by assessing the impact of regulatory change, supervisory feedback, and thematic risk areas on the Groupβs financial crime and compliance frameworks, and supporting delivery of enhancements where gaps are identified.
- Leading regulatory change initiatives within the financial crime domain, ensuring policies, standards, and controls are updated and embedded in response to evolving AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud, ABC, and broader regulatory expectations.
- Leading the delivery of the Business-wide Financial Crime Risk Assessment (BWRA), including hands-on review and challenge of data inputs, assessment of inherent and residual risk, evaluation of control effectiveness, and working with Heads of Compliance driving remediation where gaps or weaknesses are identified.
- Overseeing the design and delivery of clear, insightful MI, risk dashboards, and assurance reporting to Executive Management, Board and Committee forums, and regulators, providing a clear Second Line view of risk exposure and control effectiveness.
- Overseeing ongoing financial crime monitoring and assurance, working closely with the Compliance Monitoring Manager to design and execute control testing and thematic reviews that complement and strengthen the Compliance Monitoring Plan.
- Driving effective financial crime issue management, ensuring issues, findings, and actions are clearly owned, tracked, escalated, and closed in line with governance expectations and regulatory standards.
- Helping lead and develop a high-performing Second Line team, providing coaching, training, T&C oversight, and development to uplift financial crime and regulatory risk capability across both 2LOD and 1LOD.
- Driving day-to-day risk culture through visible leadership, challenge, and support, strengthening accountability and ownership for financial crime and regulatory risk across the organisation
Qualifications & Skills
- A minimum of 7 yearsβ 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, including delivery of RCSAs, CRAs, Business-Wide Financial Crime Risk Assessments (BWRAs), and the establishment of minimum standards.
- Proven experience in establishing, enhancing, or remediating financial crime operational functions, including during periods of regulatory scrutiny or business change.
- Experience engaging directly with multiple global regulators relevant to Capital.comβs operating model, including supervisory interactions, examinations, and remediation activity.
- A professional qualification in AML, financial crime, or risk management is desirable (e.g. ICA, ACAMS, CRCM, PRM, FRM, or equivalent).
- Prior regulatory approval in a controlled or senior compliance function is desirable (e.g. FCA, SCA, SCB, CySEC, AUSTRAC)
- Deep understanding of AML/CTF, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption (ABC), fraud, and broader regulatory risk requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise risk management and financial crime systems, including model design, rule logic, and the use of data-driven approaches to assess control effectiveness and performance.
- Proven ability to interpret regulatory expectations and translate them into practical, scalable frameworks, standards, and controls that can be consistently embedded across a complex, multi-jurisdictional organisation.
- Strong leadership and collaboration capabilities, with the ability to influence, challenge, and engage effectively across senior management, control functions, and operational teams.A hands-on operator, capable of managing multiple complex initiatives in parallel while maintaining quality, oversight, and delivery focus.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a clear, structured, and evidence-based approach to providing challenge and guidance.
- Highly analytical with strong attention to detail, able to assess complex risk issues, interpret data, and form sound, defensible judgments.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, with the ability to bring structure, prioritisation, and control discipline during periods of growth or change.
What you will get in return:
β’ Competitive Salary: We believe great work deserves great pay! Your skills and talents will be rewarded with a salary that makes you feel valued and motivated.
β’ Work-Life Harmony: Join a company that genuinely cares about you - because your life outside of work matters just as much as your time on the clock. #LI-Hybrid
β’ Generous Time Off: Need a breather? Our annual leave policy lets you recharge and enjoy life outside of work without a worry.
β’ Employee Referral Program: Love working here? Share the love! Bring your talented friends on board and get rewarded for growing our awesome team.
β’ Comprehensive Health & Pension Benefits: From medical insurance to pension plans, weβve got your back. Plus, location-specific benefits and perks!
β’ Workation Wonderland: Live your digital nomad dreams with 30 extra days to work remotely from anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply). Adventure awaits!
β’ Volunteer Days: Make a difference! Take two additional paid days each year to support causes you care about and give back to the community.
Be a key player at the forefront of the digital assets movement, propelling your career to new heights! Join a dynamic and rapidly expanding company that values and rewards talent, initiative, and creativity. Work alongside one of the most brilliant teams in the industry.
