Compliance Associate (Contract, London)

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£37.5/hr
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From the Ethos listing, checked Nov 11.
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A 6-month contract at about £300 per day depending on experience, roughly £37.50 an hour over an 8-hour day. This is a contract role on Ethos's own team, based at its London office in Kings Cross. You work in the office Monday to Thursday and from home on Friday, so you need to live within commuting distance.
You would be Ethos's first dedicated compliance hire, building the basics from scratch across three areas: financial crime (KYC, AML, fraud) and regulation, data privacy, and information security. It is hands-on: reviewing flagged cases, investigating suspicious activity and answering data requests, and also writing and owning the policies behind that work.
Day to day:
Write and own the KYC, AML, sanctions and fraud policies, including rules for edge cases, and keep them current
Run the identity verification setup so it is easy for genuine experts and hard for everyone else
Investigate fraud patterns, account takeovers and unusual payment or login behaviour, and work with engineering to automate the checks
Handle KYC/KYB requests and compliance reporting for banks, payment partners and clients
Apply tax and payout rules for experts: W-8/W-9 forms, DAC7 platform reporting and country rules
Handle data subject requests (access, erasure) on time
Lead data protection impact assessments and keep privacy notices and retention rules current
Keep one compliance register of risks, controls and owners, and report monthly risk numbers to leadership and the board
What you need:
2 to 5 years in compliance, fraud or financial crime, ideally at a marketplace or a high-volume payments startup
Solid KYC, AML, fraud and sanctions knowledge, applied in proportion to the risk at a company that is not a bank
Hands-on use of an identity verification vendor such as Persona, Onfido, Sumsub or Veriff
Willing to learn UK GDPR and data protection (experience not required)
Familiarity with SOC 2 or ISO 27001, or the appetite to learn it quickly
You check your own data with SQL or a BI tool
A clear writer who can explain a decision to an expert, a bank or the board
Nice to have: ICA or ACAMS certification.

Requirements

Must be eligible to work in United Kingdom
Fluent proficiency in English (Written & Verbal)
Reliable high-speed internet connection
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