Compliance Lead
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Occupation Type
Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
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£41,700
(£21.38 per hour)
Standard minimum applies
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Description
About Allica Bank
Allica is the UK’s fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.
Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.
Role Description
This is a rare opportunity to own and shape the compliance and financial crime framework for an innovative suite of invoice finance, BNPL and embedded credit products operating within a regulated UK banking group.
As Compliance Lead for Kriya, you will be responsible for implementing and embedding the bank’s enterprise-wide compliance and financial crime policies into a proportionate, product-specific framework, ensuring full alignment with the bank’s risk appetite while meeting the unique operational and customer risks of embedded finance and invoice financing.
You will not be creating compliance in isolation. Instead, you will act as the translator and integrator between group-level bank policy and a fast-scaling product environment—ensuring regulatory consistency, auditability, and control, while enabling commercial growth.
You will act as a Compliance Manager for Kriya, an Annex 1 business registered with the FCA for AML supervision (but not otherwise FCA-authorised).
Principal Accountabilities
Allica is the UK’s fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.
Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.
Role Description
This is a rare opportunity to own and shape the compliance and financial crime framework for an innovative suite of invoice finance, BNPL and embedded credit products operating within a regulated UK banking group.
As Compliance Lead for Kriya, you will be responsible for implementing and embedding the bank’s enterprise-wide compliance and financial crime policies into a proportionate, product-specific framework, ensuring full alignment with the bank’s risk appetite while meeting the unique operational and customer risks of embedded finance and invoice financing.
You will not be creating compliance in isolation. Instead, you will act as the translator and integrator between group-level bank policy and a fast-scaling product environment—ensuring regulatory consistency, auditability, and control, while enabling commercial growth.
You will act as a Compliance Manager for Kriya, an Annex 1 business registered with the FCA for AML supervision (but not otherwise FCA-authorised).
Principal Accountabilities
- Own the end-to-end Compliance and Financial Crime Framework for Kriya’s digital lending products, including Embedded PayLater and Invoice Finance.
- Implement, adapt and operationalise the Bank’s group compliance, AML, sanctions and financial crime policies, ensuring they are applied consistently and proportionately within the product suite.
- Identify where product-specific controls, procedures or interpretations are required and manage these in line with bank governance and approval processes.
- Act as financial crime manager for Kriya, with responsibility for AML/CTF compliance under the MLRs, including oversight of SAR decision-making, escalation and reporting.
- Ensure customer due diligence (CDD/KYC), sanctions screening, PEP identification and transaction monitoring are fully aligned to bank standards, risk appetite statements and escalation thresholds.
- Maintain strong oversight of outsourced or technology-enabled financial crime controls where applicable.
- Serve as the primary compliance and financial crime advisor to the product, engineering and commercial teams.
- Provide clear, pragmatic guidance on how bank policies apply to new products, features, customer segments and distribution models.
Personal Attributes & Experience
At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.
Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in a compliance role within fintech or digital lending
- Proven experience in building or significantly enhancing compliance frameworks for specific products, not just maintaining group-wide policies
- Deep, practical knowledge of the UK regulatory landscape
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate regulatory text into actionable business requirements for tech and product teams
- A confident and influential communicator, able to engage and advise stakeholders at all levels, from engineers to the board
- High integrity, strong organisational skills, and an unwavering attention to detail
At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.
Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:
- Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities
- Options for flexible working
Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you’ll be a good fit, we’d still love to hear from you!
Flexible working
We know the ‘9-to-5’ isn’t right for everyone. That’s why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate.
Diversity
We’re a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.