Senior Regulatory & Compliance Manager, Zodia Custody
6 Month FTC
£90-115k
2+ days a week in office
Institution-first digital asset custodian
Be an early applicant
Institution-first digital asset custodian
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£90-115k
2+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable global institutions, corporations, and professional investors to realise the full potential of the digital asset future – simply, safely and without compromise.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years’ experience in regulatory policy or compliance, with advisory experience
- Direct hands-on experience leading licensing or registration programmes such as FSMA authorisation, Money Laundering Registration, or drafting regulator applications
- Strong knowledge of FCA, PRA, FSMA, MiFID, SEC, CFTC, GDPR, and digital‑asset regulatory frameworks
- Deep understanding of the UK FSMA licensing regime and its application to cryptoasset services
- Ability to interpret complex regulatory requirements and communicate clearly to senior stakeholders
- Direct experience engaging with regulators or senior external stakeholders, such as the FCA, supervisory teams, or board-level audiences
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a calm, structured approach to managing competing priorities
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Able to work 2 days per week on-site
- Immediate availability
- A law degree is a plus
What the job involves
- This role plays a central part in maintaining Zodia’s regulatory integrity. You will lead our FSMA authorisation and Money Laundering Registration workstreams, acting as the organisation’s primary expert on UK licensing requirements for digital‑asset custody
- You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across the business, providing clear regulatory interpretation, supporting compliant product decision‑making, and ensuring Zodia operates confidently within its regulatory permissions
- This is an ideal role for someone who brings structure, clarity, and strong regulatory judgement to a fast‑moving environment
- Lead UK licensing programmes, including FSMA authorisation and Money Laundering Registration, conducting gap analyses, drafting applications for Q3 2026, and coordinating remediation across the business
- Provide regulatory guidance across UK and EU frameworks, including jurisdictional analysis, product permissibility assessments, and reverse‑solicitation considerations
- Support senior regulatory engagement, drafting responses to regulatory enquiries and contributing to ongoing supervisory interactions
- Conduct regulatory horizon scanning, ensuring timely identification and implementation of regulatory change across operating jurisdictions
- Advise product teams on compliance considerations for new and evolving digital‑asset services
- Contribute to broader compliance work, including policy development, risk assessments, and regulatory reporting
- This is a highly experienced regulatory role
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As the popularity of cryptocurrency continues to rise, institutions and professional investors look to break into the world of digital asset trading. However, trading with the compliance and security expected of these organisations can be more difficult than with traditional, non-digital assets.
Zodia Custody enables these institutions, corporations and investors to embrace digital assets without sacrificing safety nor complicating processes, by acting as a digital asset custodian. It is specifically designed for use by institutions, being regulatory compliant, agile, and comprehensive, with a focus on due diligence, security, and governance.
Importantly, Zodia's system has been created to work as a professional investor or institution would expect it to, integrating into their normal operations. The company has raised substantial funding that has fuelled its expansion, and continues to secure high-profile clients such as Securitize, Deutsche Bank’s DWS and Galaxy Digital.
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Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2023
$36m
SERIES A
Total funding: $36m
Company benefits
- A friendly team, with monthly socials and seasonal celebrations
- Competitive employer contribution pension scheme
- Private health care
- Critical Illness cover
- Life Insurance
- Flexible bank holidays (can chose whether to work on bank holidays and use the leave elsewhere in the year)
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Julian Sawyer
(CEO)Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at City, University of London. Former Advisor to the Board at Volt Bank, CEO of Bitstamp, Managing Director (Europe) for Gemini, and CEO at Starling Bank.
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