Compliance Director - Retail Lending
Added 28 Aug · still live
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Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£48,200
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2482 (90% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £48,200, and HSBC is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
About the role
Why HSBC
HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. Guided by our purpose of opening up a world of opportunity, our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted bank globally.
For over 160 years, we have provided peace of mind because we help meet our customers’ financial needs and support them to achieve their goals with the best products and services. In 2026, we develop and deploy some of the industry’s most advanced and innovative technology to make banking easier and more secure.
The opportunity
This is a director-level leadership role within HSBC UK’s Regulatory Compliance team, with responsibility for devising and directing compliance activity across HSBC UK’s Retail Banking and Wealth division, including its First Direct and Marks & Spencer Bank brands. This role is instrumental in enabling HSBC UK’s strategic commitment to put the financial well-being of our 15 million customers at the heart of everything we do.
As Compliance Director, you’ll set the compliance agenda for secured and unsecured lending, bringing strong judgement, confident challenge, and clear decision-making in partnership with senior business leaders. You’ll shape how the organisation anticipates regulatory change, manages material compliance risks, and delivers outcomes that stand up to regulatory scrutiny and meet customer expectations. You’ll also be a visible external face for HSBC UK, representing the bank credibly with regulators and industry bodies, and ensuring that our governance, risk decisions, and controls are robust, pragmatic, and consistently applied.
What You’ll Be Doing
HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. Guided by our purpose of opening up a world of opportunity, our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted bank globally.
For over 160 years, we have provided peace of mind because we help meet our customers’ financial needs and support them to achieve their goals with the best products and services. In 2026, we develop and deploy some of the industry’s most advanced and innovative technology to make banking easier and more secure.
The opportunity
This is a director-level leadership role within HSBC UK’s Regulatory Compliance team, with responsibility for devising and directing compliance activity across HSBC UK’s Retail Banking and Wealth division, including its First Direct and Marks & Spencer Bank brands. This role is instrumental in enabling HSBC UK’s strategic commitment to put the financial well-being of our 15 million customers at the heart of everything we do.
As Compliance Director, you’ll set the compliance agenda for secured and unsecured lending, bringing strong judgement, confident challenge, and clear decision-making in partnership with senior business leaders. You’ll shape how the organisation anticipates regulatory change, manages material compliance risks, and delivers outcomes that stand up to regulatory scrutiny and meet customer expectations. You’ll also be a visible external face for HSBC UK, representing the bank credibly with regulators and industry bodies, and ensuring that our governance, risk decisions, and controls are robust, pragmatic, and consistently applied.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and develop a team of regulatory compliance professionals covering secured and unsecured lending, setting clear expectations and building deep subject-matter capability
- Own the regulatory compliance coverage model for retail lending within Retail Banking and Wealth, ensuring effective oversight, challenge and escalation
- Extensive experience and strong technical knowledge of secured and unsecured retail lending
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams of regulatory compliance professionals (or comparable specialist teams in a regulated environment)
- Strong knowledge of regulatory compliance risks and issues, including industry and regulatory trends, priorities, and practices
- Proven capability to influence senior stakeholders, drive alignment across business areas, and convert decisions into action
- Experience applying non-financial risk management frameworks within a retail banking context
- Thorough understanding of Retail Banking business models, including products and channels
- Experience representing an organisation externally with regulators and/or industry associations
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with HSBC, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 2482 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~137k in sampleP25 £40kP75 £66k
£33kmedian £50kgoing rate £48k£84k
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2482 going rate of £48,200. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.