Policy and Procedure Lead - Ongoing Monitoring

The role

You will own the design, drafting, and maintenance of financial crime policies and procedures. This includes covering AML, counter-terrorist financing, sanctions, fraud, and anti-bribery and corruption. You will partner with senior stakeholders to ensure the policy framework meets UK regulatory expectations.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of Ongoing Monitoring crime policies and procedures
• Design and maintain the Ongoing Monitoring control framework
• Monitor regulatory developments and translate changes into policy updates
• Partner with Operations, Product, and Risk teams to ensure policies are operationally workable
• Support internal audits, regulatory examinations, and assurance reviews
• Conduct gap analyses against new or changed regulation and guidance
• Provide SME guidance to the business on policy requirements
• Contribute to the wider risk management framework and risk assessments
• Build working relationships across first and second line teams

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in financial crime compliance, focusing on policy, procedure, or control framework design within a UK-regulated bank, payments firm, or fintech
• Strong working knowledge of the UK financial crime regulatory framework, including FCA requirements, the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, and JMLSG guidance
• A track record of drafting and maintaining clear, practical policy and procedure documents
• Experience designing or maintaining a financial crime control framework and supporting risk management activity
• Strong stakeholder management skills to operate and influence at senior level
• Excellent analytical and drafting skills
• Experience with regulatory horizon scanning, gap analysis, and remediation planning
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with competing priorities

Nice to have

• Experience supporting internal audits or regulatory examinations

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Vitality Health Insurance
• Perks and discounts through Vitality Health Insurance
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 days holiday with the ability to buy extra days
• Professional L&D budget
• Referral bonus
• Access to salary sacrifice benefits such as Cycle to Work scheme and pension contribution
• Spacious brand new office in Liverpool street with an all-day snacks bar
• Enhanced family-friendly leave
• 24 hours paid volunteering time off per year
• Sabbatical leave

About the company

Tide helps SMEs save time and money by offering business accounts, banking services, and administrative solutions. The company supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, Germany and France.