Legal, Compliance & Financial Crime Recruitment

Legal, Compliance & Financial Crime Recruitment: Connecting Top Talent in the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, and the US

Broadgate supports organisations where legal, compliance, and financial crime capability is central to regulatory confidence, business protection, and long-term performance.

Embedded in key regulated markets across the UK, Ireland, DACH, and the US, our consultants understand the hiring pressure created by regulatory change, financial crime exposure, sanctions complexity, and increasing personal accountability.

Whether you’re building a compliance function, appointing an MLRO, strengthening financial crime controls, or exploring your next move, Broadgate provides specialist guidance across the full Legal, Compliance and Financial Crime lifecycle.

Looking for top talent? Talk us through your hiring plans, and we'll connect you with the specialist who can support you: 

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Why Choose Broadgate for Legal, Compliance and Financial Crime Recruitment?

A Specialist Partner for Business Protection

Legal, Compliance, and Financial Crime sit at the centre of Business Protection, the functions that protect organisations against regulatory, financial, legal, and reputational risk.

Broadgate supports hires where governance standards, regulatory accountability, and board confidence matter.

We deliver permanent, interim, contract, embedded, and executive search mandates, with a focus on specialist, senior, and regulator-exposed appointments.

Regulator-Ready Hiring for High-Accountability Roles

Hiring into Legal, Compliance and Financial Crime functions requires more than technical capability.

The right candidates need judgement, credibility, and the ability to operate under scrutiny.

We support organisations hiring for:

  • MLRO and Deputy MLRO appointments
  • Head of Compliance and SMF16 roles
  • Financial Crime leadership
  • Sanctions, AML, KYC, and transaction monitoring
  • Regulatory legal and compliance advisory
  • Compliance monitoring, assurance, and testing
  • General Counsel and senior in-house legal roles

Our approach is built for roles where hiring decisions can affect regulatory approval, enforcement exposure, and business continuity.

Market Intelligence Across Regulated Sectors

Legal, Compliance and Financial Crime hiring changes quickly in response to regulation, enforcement activity, market entry, and remediation.

Broadgate works with firms navigating:

  • FCA, PRA, SMCR, DORA, MiCA, and cross-border regulatory requirements
  • Financial crime remediation and control enhancement
  • First-time compliance and MLRO appointments
  • Second line and third line function builds
  • Multi-jurisdiction legal and compliance hiring
  • Fintech, banking, asset management, insurance, and payments growth

This gives us a clear view of candidate availability, compensation trends, and hiring expectations across regulated markets.

Salary Guides

Explore Broadgate's latest salary benchmarks, compensation insights and hiring trends across Legal, Risk, Compliance and Financial Crime.

Compliance Salary Guide: UK


Compliance Salary Guide: Ireland

Access to Off-Market and Diverse Talent

The strongest Legal, Compliance and Financial Crime professionals are often not active in the market.

Broadgate engages talent through long-term relationships, specialist networks, and community-led sourcing. This supports access to off-market candidates and more representative shortlists across governance and control functions.

For clients, this means stronger candidate quality, better retention potential, and reduced hiring risk.

A Long-Term Partner for Legal, Compliance and Financial Crime Hiring

Legal, Compliance and Financial Crime hiring is often linked to regulation, transformation, remediation, and leadership change.

We support this through flexible delivery models:

  • Executive search for General Counsel, MLRO, Head of Compliance, and Financial Crime leadership
  • Retained search for specialist senior appointments
  • Interim and contract hiring for urgent regulatory needs
  • Embedded solutions for function buildouts
  • Advisory support for role design, benchmarking, and assessment

This gives organisations continuity across hiring cycles, rather than one-off recruitment support.

We don't do transactional hiring. Start a meaningful partnership with a talent consultant you can trust: 

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MEET THE TEAM

Meet Ben

Ben Adams

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Meet Matt

Matt Carter

Associate Director: Risk, Compliance, Financial Crime

Meet Connor

Connor Nurse

Head of US

Meet Declan

Declan Stark

Principal Consultant - Risk

 

LATEST JOBS

United Kingdom
MLRO Officer
Permanent
MLRO – International Payments A growing international money transfer business wants an experienced MLRO to own financial crime compliance for its UK-regulated entity. This is a standalone, senior role reporting to the CFO, with direct exposure to the CEO and Board. ResponsibilitiesAct as nominated MLRO and primary FCA contact on financial crimeManage the internal SAR process, NCA submissions (including DAML) and law enforcement requestsOwn the firm-wide risk assessment and AML/CTF, Sanctions, PEP and ABC policiesSet KYC/CDD/EDD standards and approve high-risk and PEP relationshipsOversee sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and fraud controlsProduce the Annual MLRO Report and regular Board reportingDeliver AML training and run assurance reviewsRequirementsMLRO or Deputy MLRO experience, ideally in payments, remittance, e-money or fintech5+ years in a senior UK compliance roleInternational experience essential; African markets exposure a plusCommercially minded, collaborative and comfortable working autonomously
Georgia MasonGeorgia Mason
Posted about 3 hours ago
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Horsham, United Kingdom
business quality assessor - south
Permanent
File Checker - Business QualityA leading UK financial advice network is looking for a Business Quality Adviser to join its Supervision & Assurance team, reviewing advice files to make sure clients get good outcomes.What you'll doCarry out pre- and post-sale file reviews across Investments, Pensions, Mortgages and InsuranceAssess suitability, affordability, capacity for loss, risk profiling and disclosure against COBS, MCOB, ICOBS, PROD and Consumer DutyGive clear, constructive feedback to advisers and support them in raising standardsRun root cause analysis on failed or at-risk cases and help improve controls and guidanceContribute to thematic reviews (e.g. retirement advice, DB transfers, vulnerable customers)What you'll needExperience in quality assurance or paraplanning within a financial advice firmStrong knowledge of FCA rules, Consumer Duty and vulnerable customer guidanceLevel 4 Diploma (DipPFS, DipFA or equivalent)
Georgia MasonGeorgia Mason
Posted about 3 hours ago
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Horsham, United Kingdom
Business Quality Assessor - Midlands
Permanent
File Checker - Business Quality A leading UK financial advice network is looking for a Business Quality Adviser to join its Supervision & Assurance team, reviewing advice files to make sure clients get good outcomes. What you'll doCarry out pre- and post-sale file reviews across Investments, Pensions, Mortgages and InsuranceAssess suitability, affordability, capacity for loss, risk profiling and disclosure against COBS, MCOB, ICOBS, PROD and Consumer DutyGive clear, constructive feedback to advisers and support them in raising standardsRun root cause analysis on failed or at-risk cases and help improve controls and guidanceContribute to thematic reviews (e.g. retirement advice, DB transfers, vulnerable customers)What you'll needExperience in quality assurance or paraplanning within a financial advice firmStrong knowledge of FCA rules, Consumer Duty and vulnerable customer guidanceLevel 4 Diploma (DipPFS, DipFA or equivalent)
Georgia MasonGeorgia Mason
Posted about 3 hours ago
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Dublin, Ireland
Compliance Testing Manager
Permanent
Compliance Testing Manager Investment Banking Dublin - Hybrid Working  80-95k DOE  Great opportunity to work with an exciting business who have seen continued, steady growth over the last few years. The Irish business is a key part of their global operation and an area of the business that they want to continue to build out and that they see as a hub for their European expansion and commercial goals.  You will report to the Head of Testing who leads testing across the group. This is a hands-on, 2nd line of defence, individual contributor role with no direct reports. You will be responsible for end-to-end compliance testing across the business. Your Role:  Design effective compliance testing plans of processes, controls, and governance frameworks Execute end-to-end testing and present final reports to the business Provide key insights and advice to the business based on your findings Support the broader compliance team with compliance risk assessments Ensure issues are tracked and corrective actions are taken  About You:  8+ years experience in a Compliance/Audit/Assurance testing based role Experience interacting with the Central Bank of Ireland is highly beneficial Experience designing and executing testing plans Experience working in a regulated financial services business - Banking would be preferred Strong report writing ability and experience Strong stakeholder management with the ability to effectively challenge and influence business stakeholders If you would like to hear more about this exclusive opportunity, reach out to me directly or apply here!
Darren HoganDarren Hogan
Posted about 3 hours ago
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Horsham, United Kingdom
Business Quality Assessor
Permanent
File Checker - Business QualityA leading UK financial advice network is looking for a Business Quality Adviser to join its Supervision & Assurance team, reviewing advice files to make sure clients get good outcomes.What you'll doCarry out pre- and post-sale file reviews across Investments, Pensions, Mortgages and InsuranceAssess suitability, affordability, capacity for loss, risk profiling and disclosure against COBS, MCOB, ICOBS, PROD and Consumer DutyGive clear, constructive feedback to advisers and support them in raising standardsRun root cause analysis on failed or at-risk cases and help improve controls and guidanceContribute to thematic reviews (e.g. retirement advice, DB transfers, vulnerable customers)What you'll needExperience in quality assurance or paraplanning within a financial advice firmStrong knowledge of FCA rules, Consumer Duty and vulnerable customer guidanceLevel 4 Diploma (DipPFS, DipFA or equivalent)
Georgia MasonGeorgia Mason
Posted about 3 hours ago
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Nottingham, United Kingdom
AML and Sanctions Compliance - Principal Associate
Permanent
AML & Sanctions Lead | Consumer Lending | Nottingham (Hybrid) | Bonus Scheme  This is where your expertise leads. You’ve investigated the cases, made the calls and seen SARs through from start to finish. Now you’re ready to set the standard. Here you’ll sit at the heart of a UK AML Work Programme in a high-volume consumer lending business, working alongside the MLRO and leading the people on the front line. This isn’t a role where you review from a distance. You’ll be the person the team turns to when a case gets complicated. You lead the work, not just the reviews. You’ll mentor and develop first-line investigators, define what good looks like, and use QA as a coaching tool to raise SAR quality. You’ll also own the policies, procedures and training that keep things practical, partner with the MLRO on suspicious activity decisions and audits, and act as the final pair of eyes on the toughest cases. Beyond that, you’ll run 2nd-line assurance, challenge CDD, and close out risk events and audit findings properly, making it harder for financial criminals to get through. And the environment backs you to do it. This is a business consistently recognised as one of the UK’s best places to work. It has a strong focus on learning, up to £5,000 of funding for external qualifications, and a team that is serious about keeping the bad actors out. You’ll have real influence with stakeholders and room to shape how controls work in practice. Hybrid in Nottingham, with Tuesday to Thursday in the office and Monday and Friday at home. Competitive base, performance-related bonus, and a package built to grow with you. What you’ll bring: A strong understanding of the UK financial crime framework, including the MLRs, JMLSG and POCA Proven experience leading teams through end-to-end financial crime investigations in a high-volume consumer credit environment Confidence making well-documented, defensible decisions that lead to high-quality SARs The ability to build trust with stakeholders, so they come to you when a control isn’t working A real appetite for professional development through ICA, ACAMS or similar Benefits: competitive pension, 25 days’ holiday rising with tenure (plus the option to buy 5 more), private medical insurance, enhanced parental leave, and an office with an on-site gym.  If you’re ready to set the standard and lead from the front in financial crime compliance, apply today.
Annabel LovellAnnabel Lovell
Posted about 3 hours ago
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