Head of Compliance
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Head of Compliance for beqom, ensuring global compliance and governance while leading a high-impact team. Focused on regulatory frameworks in a dynamic SaaS company.
Responsibilities:
- Lead our compliance strategy and governance
- Build and evolve beqom’s global compliance framework across relevant jurisdictions
- Establish and maintain policies, standards, controls, governance forums, and reporting routines
- Lead compliance risk assessments and maintain the compliance risk register
- Put in place monitoring, testing, and issue-management processes to identify and address gaps
- Provide regular reporting to the COO/CFO and executive leadership on risks, incidents, trends, and remediation progress
- Drive privacy and regulatory compliance
- Oversee our approach to data protection and privacy compliance, including GDPR and related obligations, in partnership with Legal and Security
- Ensure the company can demonstrate accountability through clear documentation, reporting, and governance
- Support regulatory-readiness activities and coordinate external inquiries where needed
- Partner with customers and commercial teams
- Act as a senior compliance lead for customer due diligence, control reviews, audit requests, and regulated-sector questionnaires
- Support strategic commercial opportunities by addressing compliance and assurance requirements from enterprise customers
- Partner with Sales, Solution Advisory, Security, and Legal to strengthen trust materials and compliance positioning
- Strengthen third-party risk and resilience
- Build and oversee the compliance aspects of third-party risk management, including vendor assessments, subprocessors, outsourcing controls, and ongoing monitoring
- Help ensure our control environment meets the expectations of customers in highly regulated industries
- Partner with Security and Operations on incident governance, escalation, and remediation tracking
- Oversee controls, audits, and certifications
- Support the company’s readiness for external assurance frameworks and certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and related control programs
- Coordinate internal and external audits and drive follow-through on findings and corrective actions
- Maintain the documentation and evidence required to support customer and audit assurance
- Enable the business
- Provide compliance input on new products, AI-related use cases, customer contracts, commercial initiatives, and market expansion
- Deliver practical training and awareness initiatives that promote a culture of accountability
- Advise leaders on how to balance compliance rigor with operational scalability and business growth
- Build the function
- Lead and grow a lean, high-impact compliance function over time
- Define the operating model and interfaces with Legal, Security, Finance, HR, and external advisors
- Use external counsel, auditors, and specialist partners effectively where internal scale is limited
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in compliance, risk, governance, privacy, or regulatory assurance
- Experience in a B2B SaaS, fintech, regtech, payments, or other technology environment serving regulated customers
- Proven success building or scaling a compliance function in an international company
- Strong knowledge of privacy, control frameworks, policy governance, audit coordination, and third-party risk management
- Experience supporting enterprise customer due diligence and audits
- Strong executive presence, sound judgment, and excellent stakeholder management skills
- Ability to think strategically while staying close to execution
- Familiarity with DORA, EBA outsourcing expectations, or similar third-party governance requirements in regulated sectors (Bonus points if you)
- Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and related assurance frameworks (Bonus points if you)
- Relevant certifications such as CIPP/E, CRISC, CRCM, CISSP, or ISO 27001-related credentials (Bonus points if you)
Benefits:
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development opportunities



















