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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and pragmatic Compliance Risk Lead to enhance and scale Selina Finance's compliance and risk framework. This role involves shaping the second line of defence, developing the compliance monitoring program, and serving as a key advisor to business teams within a fast-growing fintech environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver the Compliance Monitoring Plan (CMP), establishing second-line oversight across underwriting, customer service, and broker due diligence.
• Lead regulatory change horizon scanning, assessing the impact of new FCA rules and translating them into actionable business strategies.
• Manage the policy framework, including reviewing, drafting, and approving policies, and maintaining the compliance handbook.
• Develop and maintain the risk register and risk matrix, identifying new risks and driving mitigation actions.
• Conduct onboarding and annual due diligence for suppliers, technology providers, and partners, and enhance third-party oversight.
• Review and approve financial promotions, providing compliance sign-off and advising on product journeys, website content, and partner materials.
• Support fraud referrals, investigations, and external reporting, and contribute to handling FOS complaints.
• Deliver compliance training across the business on topics such as fraud and vulnerable customers.
• Partner with Product, Growth, Legal, and Credit on new commercial ventures, ensuring regulatory compliance from project inception.

Requirements

• Solid compliance and/or risk experience within an FCA-regulated consumer lending or mortgage business, preferably in second-line roles.
• Strong working knowledge of the FCA Handbook (e.g., MCOB, CONC, DISP, SYSC), Consumer Duty, and the financial promotions regime.
• Proven experience in building and/or running compliance monitoring programmes, policies, and risk registers.
• Commercially minded with the ability to provide clear, practical advice.
• Confident communicator capable of influencing stakeholders at all levels.
• Highly organised, self-sufficient, and able to manage a broad workload effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

• Compliance monitoring
• Risk management
• Policy development
• Regulatory analysis
• Financial promotions review
• Due diligence
• Stakeholder management
• Communication
• Organisation
• Pragmatism

Location

• London
• Manchester

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid
• Remote (30 days' work-from-anywhere allowance)

Experience Level

• Experienced

Education Level

• Relevant professional qualifications (e.g., CeMAP, ICA, CISI or equivalent) - Nice to Have

Salary/Compensations

• £60,000 base salary, dependent on experience

Benefits

• 25 days' annual leave, plus bank holidays
• 30 days’ work-from-anywhere allowance
• Bi-annual Bonus (discretionary)
• Volunteering allowance
• Growth Shares
• Annual L&D budget
• Cycle to work scheme
• 3% pension contribution
• Monthly socials
• Free access to mental health support via ‘Spill’
• Benefits platform, ‘Thanks Ben’
• Annual £60 cycle allowance for Santander cycles or Evans (via ‘Thanks Ben’)
• Workplace Nursery Benefit

About the Company

• Selina Finance is a next-generation digital lender targeting homeowners across the UK, offering simple and flexible financial products.
• We aim to provide financing that is as flexible as a current account, as affordable as a mortgage, and as easy to apply for as a consumer loan.
• We have 19 different nationalities across our London + Manchester offices.
• Voted as ‘one of the fastest-growing businesses in the UK’ by Business Leader Growth 500 for 2025.
• Voted top 30 of ‘Tempos 100 best start-ups to work for 2023’.
• Disability Confident Committed employer.
• BCorp Certified.
• Rated highly in employee surveys for Workplace Culture, Work Life/Balance, and Employee Recognition.

Equal Opportunity

• We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements that cannot be shown to be justifiable.
• We welcome and encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented groups and provide feedback to all candidates we interview.