Compliance Assistant

Job Title: Compliance Assistant

Location: Remote (UK)

Salary: £37,000-£45,000 pa + benefits

Hours: 40 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Southern Bank & Trust is a community bank offering checking, savings, mortgages and small business loans.

The role:

We want someone thorough who documents everything and is comfortable telling a business line no. This role prepares for regulatory exams and works directly with examiners. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the UK. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Duties:

• Track regulatory changes and assess their effect on products and processes
• Write and update compliance policies and procedures
• Test branch and lending processes against policy and regulation
• Review suspicious activity alerts and prepare SAR filings within deadlines
• Maintain the compliance risk assessment
• Coordinate regulatory exams and audit requests, and follow findings to closure
• Advise managers on regulatory questions in day-to-day operations

Minimum qualifications:

• 0-2 years of compliance, audit or risk experience in banking or financial services
• Experience with regulatory exams (FDIC, OCC, Federal Reserve or state regulators)
• Strong writing for policies, findings and board reports
• Familiar with AML monitoring systems such as Verafin or Abrigo
• Sound judgment and the confidence to escalate
• Organised, with a careful approach to documentation

Benefits:

• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
• 33 days holiday including bank holidays
• Long service awards
• Professional qualifications paid for
• Flexible working hours
• Employee assistance programme
• Home working allowance

This role is subject to a basic DBS check.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Southern Bank & Trust.