About this role
We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Compliance Officer to join the Pershing EMEA Compliance team. This role is located in Manchester, UK.
In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:
- Lead regulatory change oversight across Pershing EMEA, monitoring new UK, EU, Irish and Jersey regulatory developments and assessing their impact on the business.
- Maintain regulatory publications logs, regulatory change controls and governance documentation, ensuring regulatory assessments and actions are tracked and accessible.
- Partner with the EMEA Regulatory Change team, Project Management Office and business stakeholders to coordinate regulatory change implementation and delivery.
- Oversee the horizon scanning framework, providing traceability of regulatory developments from identification through implementation.
- Prepare and maintain management information to support compliance risk monitoring, regulatory reporting and senior governance oversight.
Provide compliance advisory support across Pershing and BNY stakeholders, contributing to projects, working groups and regulatory change initiatives.
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To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:
- Compliance experience within financial services, with strong knowledge of FCA requirements relating to custody, client assets, clearing and settlement activities.
- Strong understanding of UK and European regulatory developments and their impact on capital markets, wealth management and advisory businesses.
- Detailed knowledge of key FCA regulatory frameworks, including PRIN, SYSC, COBS, MAR, CASS, SUP, MiFID, SMCR and DISP.
- Experience working within a global organisation across multiple jurisdictions and engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to provide practical compliance guidance and challenge.
- Familiarity with compliance risk management frameworks, regulatory change programmes, compliance projects and emerging technologies, including AI.
About compliance & regulatory roles for ex-police
Compliance, AML and regulatory roles. Working to PACE, RIPA and CPIA is a stronger regulatory grounding than most civilian applicants can offer — firms increasingly recognise this.
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- Risk & threat assessment
- Working to legislation & regulation
What compliance & regulatory roles pay ex-police
Advertised UK ranges, editorial estimates reviewed July 2026
| Compliance analyst | £32,000–£42,000 |
| Compliance / AML officer | £40,000–£55,000 |
| Compliance manager | £55,000–£80,000 |
| Senior manager / head of compliance | £80,000–£120,000+ |