Dwelly - Compliance Manager

• Managing and running the day-to-day compliance workstreams across the business, supporting the General Counsel and escalating material risks appropriately. • Anti-money laundering: acting as the firm's Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO), owning and operating  the AML/CTF framework under the Money Laundering Regulatio ns 2017, including  customer due diligence, risk assessments, sanctions screening, making suspicious activity reports to the NCA, and HMRC registration for estate/letting agency business. • Data protection and GDPR: acting as the firm's Data Protection Officer (DPO) and owning the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 compliance programme, including data mapping, records of processing, DPIAs, data subject requests, breach response and acting as the contact point for the ICO and data subjects. • Lettings and estate agency compliance: ensuring ongoing compliance with the regulatory framework governing letting agents, including client money protection, membership of redress schemes, the transparency of fees, property standards and tenancy-related obligations. • Training: designing, delivering and tracking a firm-wide compliance training programme (AML, data protection, conduct and sector-specific lettings compliance), and embedding compliance awareness across newly acquired agencies. • Integration: supporting the compliance workstream on acquisitions — helping diligence target agencies, identifying gaps, and helping bring acquired businesses onto Dwelly's compliance framework as part of the integration process. • Policies and controls: writing, maintaining and testing the firm's suite of compliance policies, controls and registers, and preparing compliance reporting for the General Counsel. • Regulatory horizon-scanning: monitoring legal and regulatory developments affecting lettings, AML, data and AI, and translating them into practical action for the business. • Demonstrable compliance experience in a regulated business, potentially sufficient to act as Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) and Data Protection Officer (DPO). • A strong working knowledge of UK AML/MLR 2017 requirements with hands-on experience operating an AML framework as or alongside an MLRO. • A strong working knowledge of UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 sufficient to act as DPO. • High preference to have: • Lettings, estate agency or property sector compliance experience (client money protection, redress schemes, property standards). • Experience designing and delivering compliance training programmes. • Relevant professional qualification (e.g. ICA, ACAMS, data protection certification, or equivalent). • Tech/start-up or high-growth scale-up experience. • Experience supporting M&A or integrating acquired businesses onto a compliance framework. • Interest in or exposure to AI regulation and its application to a digital product. • Experience operating across both legal and operations functions.