Senior Compliance Officer, Starling Bank
Generalist
1-5 days a week in office
Mobile-first bank offering personal, joint and business accounts
Posted today
Mobile-first bank offering personal, joint and business accounts
1001+ employees
Posted today
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Anne Boden founded Starling with a clear goal: to build a bank that would help you manage your money, all from one app. Their vision is to give everyone clarity and control over their money so they have the opportunity to enjoy a healthy financial life.
Role
Who you are
- Deep working knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, and industry best practices related to compliance, and financial services, including BCOBs, CONC, LSB, PSD2, SYSC and MCOBs (advantageous) etc
- Excellent communication (written and verbal), relationship building and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences, including senior management and committees
- Proven analytical skills and problem solving skills, with the ability to understand and interpret business knowledge
- Detailed knowledge and experience of identifying key Conduct and Compliance risks
- Sound judgement and decision making, planning and prioritisation skills, with the ability to see things through to resolution at all times
- Proactive with regards to ownership and oversight of emerging and existing compliance and conduct issues and risks
- Have a naturally curious and inquisitive approach to work, proactively questioning the status quo where appropriate
- Be resilient and not shy away from having difficult conversations
- Willingness to share knowledge with the team and collaborate across all product lines with all members of the team
What the job involves
- The purpose of this role is to provide second line of defence (2LoD) regulatory compliance advice and guidance, as well as oversight and challenge to the 1LoD (first line of defence) / business teams, so that they meet their regulatory obligations and effectively manage their regulatory compliance and conduct related risks (including the delivery of good customer outcomes)
- Provide product specific advice as part of a high performing Conduct & Compliance Advice team on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that timely and accurate regulatory compliance and conduct related advice, guidance and support is provided, as well as independent challenge and oversight, to Starling Bank’s first line of defence (1LoD) / business teams
- Compliance advice will cover all current (and future) products, services and activities across the Bank, as well as overarching compliance requirements, such as Consumer Duty, conduct risk, SMCR, outsourcing, product governance, vulnerable customers, complaints, conflicts of interest etc.,)
- The ability to deliver training across the Bank on key topics/regulation
- Strong working knowledge of SME lending
- Build strong relationships with 1LoD to deliver a collaborative working environment between Compliance and the business
- Support with the development / implementation of the requisite conduct risk and compliance frameworks and policies in line with the Bank’s Enterprise-Wide
- Support with the Compliance Team’s monthly reporting pack(s)
- Ability to approve and sign off financial promotions and marketing across all products and services the Bank offers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Starling started life focused on consumer banking, they have since found most of their success by competing in the business banking space. They’ve caught up with Tide and beaten the likes of Monzo and Revolut to a more complete offering for businesses.
This progress resulted in them receiving a £100m grant in April 2019 from a body created to boost competition in SME banking, which they're using to accelerate building a full suite of digital banking products: intelligent forecasting tools, and digitally-enabled relationship management functions as well as lending products.
As well as continuing to expand in the UK, they’re expanding in Europe. They’re imminently launching an international bank in Dublin, which will allow Starling to offer its current account across the European Union after Brexit.
Banking for small businesses has historically been ignored even though the experience is poor. Starling is in tune with knowing what their customers want, and they continue to build out their range of third-party products within its banking app thanks to support from its open API. They currently have 11 integrations, including Xero, but that figure continues to grow.
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Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
43% female employees
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Apr 2022
$164.9m
LATE VC
Jun 2021
$44.3m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off!
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
- Incentives refer a friend scheme
Company values
- Do the right thing
- Listen
- Aim for greatness
- Own it
- Keep it simple
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Leadership
Anne Boden
(Founder)Held senior roles in finance over a 30 year career, including COO for AIB and Head of EMEA for RBS.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Starling Bank
Manuela Torrijos-Simon (Group Financial Controller)
- In the spirit of Aiming for Greatness and Doing the Right Thing, we want to be the bank with the best approach to Diversity and Inclusion
- The Always Open Forum at Starling empowers employees to come together and own their areas of interest, supporting their agenda both internally and externally
- The forum creates a safe space for conversations about all Diversity and Inclusion topics, with the spotlight currently on 3 focus areas; Race and Ethnicity, LGBTQ+ and Mental Health.
- We’re about to launch a new group to support Disability, and all of these teams help bring Starlings together to improve our workplace
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