Group Head of Compliance

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚔 Compliance

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Remote Choice

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2022

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Remote Choice is a UK-founded recruitment and staffing firm that helps UK businesses hire skilled, remote professionals from South Africa. The company sources, screens, shortlists and manages hiring logistics — including interviews, assessments, payroll and local IT infrastructure — to deliver cost-effective remote staffing solutions without up-front fees. Remote Choice emphasizes a large South African talent pool, dual-location support (UK and South Africa), and savings of up to 50% compared with traditional UK recruitment.

📋 Description

• Own the Group's compliance policies, risk assessments, monitoring plans and regulatory calendar across all jurisdictions • Maintain a comprehensive compliance register with named owners, measurable outcomes and due dates • Map regulatory obligations by entity and jurisdiction • Oversee anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, sanctions, customer due diligence and know-your-customer controls • Oversee screening, suspicious activity escalation and regulatory record-keeping • Oversee complaints handling and management reporting • Review financial promotions, marketing materials and websites before publication • Oversee product governance and fair value assessments for insurance and surety products • Prepare and submit regulatory returns, notifications and change-in-control filings • Manage regulator correspondence and responses to queries and application comments • Support licence applications for new entities and cells with legal advisers • Maintain a RAG compliance scoreboard and deliver a structured compliance testing programme • Investigate and record breaches and incidents and ensure remediation actions are completed • Deliver quarterly compliance reports to the Group Board and relevant supported entity boards • Coordinate compliance with UK GDPR and South Africa's POPIA with the data protection lead • Deliver compliance training and maintain completion records • Manage a centralised compliance platform • Work with the Head of Agentic Operations to develop AI-enabled compliance monitoring and onboarding agents with human sign-off at every decision point

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 8 years' experience in insurance, insurance intermediaries or financial services compliance • At least 3 years leading a compliance function or team • Working knowledge of the FCA Handbook and Money Laundering Regulations 2017, gained in the UK or a UK-facing role • Hands-on experience in anti-money laundering, sanctions and customer due diligence • Experience drafting policies and managing regulator correspondence and submissions • Excellent written English, with the ability to produce clear, precise and concise documentation • Experience with the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC), Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) or another offshore insurance regulator • Knowledge of South African FAIS and FICA requirements, or FSCA compliance officer approval • Experience in surety, construction insurance, Lloyd's or delegated authority arrangements • Experience implementing compliance management systems or automation • A recognised compliance qualification, such as the ICA Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance (desirable)

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • UK business hours • Senior leadership opportunity • Opportunity to work in an international, AI-first business