In-house FCA Compliance Lead

Beyond Co.

FCA Compliance Lead managing regulatory frameworks for Evouchers & Fundingconnect during FCA authorisation. Leading compliance initiatives and training across the organisation ensuring sustainability under regulation.

Posted 6/1/2026contractNewmarket • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £65,000 - £75,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a regulatory gap analysis across Evouchers’ current and planned activities to identify gaps against FCA requirements, ensuring we fully understand what is required to become and remain authorised.
Own the end-to-end FCA authorisation preparation process, including drafting and coordinating the application pack and supporting documentation, ensuring submissions are accurate, complete, and aligned to FCA expectations.
Design and embed a proportionate compliance framework (policies, procedures, and controls) to ensure the business operates in a way that is demonstrably compliant, scalable, and suitable for future regulatory expansion across multiple products.
Define appropriate governance structures, oversight mechanisms, and reporting lines, ensuring clear accountability and alignment with FCA expectations around senior management responsibility and effective risk oversight.
Establish a practical regulatory risk management approach, including identification, assessment, and mitigation of key compliance risks relevant to payments, voucher distribution, and safeguarding funds in transit.
Advise senior leadership on FCA regulatory requirements, obligations, and decision-making impacts, ensuring compliance considerations are embedded into product, operational, and commercial decisions early.
Develop and implement compliance monitoring and control frameworks, enabling the business to evidence ongoing compliance rather than treating FCA requirements as a one-off application exercise.
Prepare the business for FCA scrutiny and engagement, including supporting responses to FCA queries, follow-ups, and potential interviews or clarification requests during the authorisation process.
Design and deliver FCA-focused training for key stakeholders and operational teams, ensuring regulatory responsibilities are understood and appropriately embedded across the organisation.
Support readiness for post-authorisation operating requirements, including ongoing reporting, governance cadence, and compliance ownership structures, so the business is not only authorised but sustainable under regulation.
Help shape compliance foundations that support future product expansion, ensuring the framework is flexible enough to accommodate a growing suite of regulated and semi-regulated financial products.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience supporting or leading FCA authorisation applications, including first-time authorisations for a business & product.
Strong background in UK financial services regulation, with a deep understanding of FCA principles, expectations, and supervisory approach.
Strong track record of working in early-stage, scaling, or high-growth environments where regulatory frameworks are still being established.
Prior experience within payments, e-money, voucher, or fintech platforms.
Exposure to multi-product or platform-based regulated environments.
Previous experience within in-house compliance roles.
Experience building or embedding compliance frameworks, policies, and controls from scratch within a fintech, payments, or regulated financial services environment.
Demonstrable experience working across regulatory governance, risk management, and compliance monitoring frameworks.
Experience engaging directly with regulators, including responding to FCA queries, feedback, and information requests.
Strong understanding of FCA regulatory framework relevant to payments or e-money-type environments (or similar regulated activity).
Ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical, operationally workable processes.
Experience designing compliance monitoring, reporting, and oversight mechanisms.
Ability to operate as a hands-on builder and strategic advisor simultaneously.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence founders, senior leadership, and operational teams.
Excellent written capability for producing high-quality regulatory documentation.
Ability to simplify complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance.
Strong judgement in balancing regulatory compliance with commercial and product realities.
Comfortable working autonomously in a foundational, undefined environment.
Pragmatic and commercially aware, not overly theoretical or “box-ticking” in approach.
Comfortable with ambiguity and building structure where none currently exists.
Proactive, self-directed, and able to drive work forward without close supervision.
Detail-oriented with a strong sense of regulatory risk and accountability.
Collaborative and calm under pressure, particularly when dealing with regulatory deadlines or feedback cycles.
Experience supporting businesses through post-authorisation supervision and audits.

Benefits

Comp & perks

4-day working week
Flexible working schedule/work-from-home opportunities
On-site gym facilities at HQ
Buying and selling holiday scheme
Additional holiday for length of service
Employee-assisted programme
Group life assurance (Death in service)
Will-writing assistance scheme
Company pool cars at HQ
Payroll giving scheme enabling you to support charities of your choice through tax-efficient salary donations
Health cash plan, covering everyday health treatments
On-site trained mental health and well-being champions
Monthly lunch club (on us)
Discounted retail vouchers via employee savings platform
Comprehensive wellness programmes
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
Electric car scheme & on-site EV charging
Cycle to Work Scheme
Eye examination scheme
Financial contribution to the setup of work-from-home environments
Use of new and leading technology in the form of Apple products
Frequent company-funded social events
Office closure between Christmas & New Year
Access to continuous learning and development opportunities
Comprehensive employee referral scheme
Casual Dress Code
Free healthy snacks & barista coffee
In addition to the above, you’ll have access to our ‘take your pick’ benefits scheme, which is tailored specifically to you and includes:
Enhanced pension payments
Retail vouchers
Private medical insurance
Dental plan
Enhanced Health Cash Plan