Compliance Manager

Skip to main content Compliance Manager Dwelly London, England, United Kingdom Apply Compliance Manager Dwelly London, England, United Kingdom 3 weeks ago Be among the first 25 applicants See who Dwelly has hired for this role Apply Save Report this job About DwellyDwelly — a UK-based, AI-enabled lettings and property management platform, that is growing through a roll-up strategy acquiring estate agencies. The company leverages two arms: i) acquiring existing letting agencies, effectively buying its highly sticky, recurring revenue-type landlords portfolios, and then ii) building a top-notch technology to automate tenant management, payments, and post-rental property maintenance. The company seamlessly integrates AI services to automate all business processes within brick-and-mortar real estate agencies, integrating them into a tech-enabled digital letting platform in two months to radically improve the user experiences and increase efficiency of the business.We’re a fast-growing, product-focused company, backed by top-tier investors and led by a team with deep experience in real estate, technology, and operations.Position summary We are looking for an experienced compliance professional to manage and run day-to-day compliance workstreams across the business under the direction of the General Counsel. You will be responsible for operating and maintaining compliance frameworks as Dwelly scales rapidly and acquires agencies, covering anti-money laundering, data protection, training, and the full spectrum of lettings and estate agency regulation. The role will suit someone who is hands-on and commercial, comfortable supporting the development of frameworks from the ground up, and able to help embed a culture of compliance across a fast-moving, acquisitive business rather than acting purely as a gatekeeper. You will work closely with senior leadership, operations, people and product teams, and will support the management of relationships with regulators, redress schemes and client money protection providers.Key responsibilitiesManaging 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...