Global GRC Leader: Compliance, Privacy & Risk

Beqom North America Inc; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

beqom is seeking an experienced GRC Manager to build and strengthen governance, risk, and compliance across our international footprint, including regulated sectors such as banking and financial services.

Reporting to the Head of Legal, you will lead policy, controls, audits, privacy, third-party risk, and certification readiness, collaborating with Legal, Security, Product, Engineering, and Finance to enable scalable compliance and trusted customer assurance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a GRC, compliance, risk, governance, or regulatory assurance role.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evolve the company's global compliance framework across all relevant jurisdictions.
• Establish and maintain policies, standards, controls, governance forums, and reporting routines.
• Lead enterprise-wide compliance risk assessments and maintain the compliance risk register.
• Define monitoring, testing, and issue-management processes to identify, elevate, and remediate compliance gaps.
• Provide regular reporting to the Head of Legal and executive team on compliance risks, incidents, trends, and remediation progress.
• Oversee the company's compliance approach to data protection and privacy requirements - including GDPR and other applicable privacy obligations.
• Ensure the organisation can demonstrate accountability through proportionate documentation, reporting, and governance.
• Support regulatory-readiness activities and coordinate external inquiries where relevant.
• Act as the senior GRC lead for customer due diligence, regulated-sector questionnaires, control reviews, and audit requests.
• Support strategic deals by addressing compliance, governance, and assurance requirements from enterprise customers, especially in banking and other regulated sectors.
• Partner with Sales, Solution Advisory, Security, and Legal to strengthen trust materials and compliance positioning.
• Build and oversee the compliance aspects of third-party risk management - including vendor assessments, subprocessors, outsourcing controls, and ongoing monitoring.
• Ensure the company's control environment supports resilience and risk management for financial-services clients.
• Partner with Security and Operations on incident governance, escalation, and post-incident remediation tracking.
• Oversee GRC readiness for external assurance frameworks and certifications, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and related control programmes.
• Coordinate internal and external audits and ensure effective follow-through on findings and corrective actions.
• Maintain evidence, documentation, and policy governance required to support customer and audit assurance.
• Provide compliance input into new products, AI-related use cases, commercial initiatives, customer contracts, and market expansion plans.
• Deliver practical training and awareness programmes to embed a strong culture of compliance and accountability.
• Advise leaders on how to balance compliance rigour with operational scalability and business growth.

Skills

GRC experience

Compliance

Risk governance

Regulatory assurance

B2B SaaS

Fintech / regtech

Stakeholder management

Audits coordination

Privacy knowledge

International scale

Job description

beqom is seeking an experienced GRC Manager to build and strengthen governance, risk, and compliance across our international footprint, including regulated sectors such as banking and financial services.

Reporting to the Head of Legal, you will lead policy, controls, audits, privacy, third-party risk, and certification readiness, collaborating with Legal, Security, Product, Engineering, and Finance to enable scalable compliance and trusted customer assurance.