Head of Compliance & Risk

Allocator One Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership from day one

Senior operator-led team

Global business with UK centre

Shape regulatory hosting for funds

Job summary

Infra One seeks a Head of Compliance & Risk to own the regulatory framework end-to-end and to oversee the UK appointed representatives. This senior role requires driving FCA authorisation activities, holding SMF16 and SMF17, and shaping compliance from the ground up.

You will build the oversight framework, policies, and monitoring, and train teams across the business while advising senior leadership on regulatory matters. Hybrid London role with global remit.

Qualifications

• Proven experience overseeing appointed representatives within a principal/host firm.
• Willingness/ability to obtain SMF16 and SMF17 approvals.
• Deep knowledge of the FCA Handbook, SM&CR, AR regime, and AML obligations.
• Track record guiding FCA authorisation or permission variations for funds.
• Experience in fund management or financial services.
• Commercial mindset balancing risk protection with speed.
• Strong judgement to be the senior compliance voice in a growing business.

Responsibilities

• Own the regulatory framework end-to-end for Infra One.
• Drive the FCA authorisation process with external consultants.
• Oversee onboarding, due diligence, ongoing monitoring of appointed representatives.
• Develop and maintain policies, procedures, and monitoring programmes.
• Design and deliver compliance and financial crime training across the business.
• Lead the firm's risk management framework and mitigation strategies.
• Serve as primary FCA contact and trusted adviser to senior management.

Skills

AR oversight

SMF16/SMF17

FCA knowledge

FCA authorisation

funds/fund mgmt

commercial mindset

executive presence

Job description

Infra One provides a fully managed foundation that handles fund creation and operations from day one. We are already live and serving in the UK, US, Austria, Germany and launching Singapore, India and Luxembourg imminently.

Allocator One backs exceptional first and second-time fund managers around the world—acting as “seed-investor + platform” for emerging VC funds.

Together, we deliver both the capital and the structure fund managers need—and in doing so build a global ecosystem of platforms, people, and ideas that reshape private markets.

This role is required to oversee the regulatory compliance and risk obligations of the UK entity, with a particular focus on building out and overseeing our appointed representatives.

Tasks

As Head of Compliance & Risk, you will own the firm's regulatory framework end-to-end and act as the senior compliance voice in the business. This is a hands on role for someone who wants to shape the function, not inherit a finished one.

You will:

• Drive the firm's FCA authorisation process forward, working with our external consultants, owning the application, the regulatory business plan, and engagement with the FCA through to permissions.
• Hold the SMF16 (Compliance Oversight) and SMF17 (Money Laundering Reporting Officer) functions, with full accountability under the Senior Managers & Certification Regime.
• Build and run the oversight framework for the firm's appointed representatives onboarding, due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and ensuring each AR operates within the firm's permissions and standards.
• Own and continuously improve the firm's policies, procedures, and compliance monitoring programme.
• Design and deliver compliance and financial crime training across the business.
• Lead the firm's risk management framework, identifying, assessing, and mitigating regulatory and operational risk.
• Serve as the primary point of contact with the FCA and act as a trusted adviser to senior management on regulatory matters.

Requirements

What you bring

• Prior experience at a principal/ host firm, with direct responsibility for the oversight of appointed representatives.
• Ideally, previous experience holding SMF16 and SMF17 (or readiness to be approved for both).
• Deep, current knowledge of the FCA Handbook, SM&CR, the AR regime (including the FCA's enhanced AR rules), and financial crime / AML obligations.
• A track record of taking firms through FCA authorisation or significant variations of permission.
• Experience in fund management (ideally private funds), fund administration, or financial services more broadly.
• A pragmatic, commercial mindset: you build proportionate frameworks that protect the firm without slowing it down.
• The judgement and gravitas to be the senior compliance voice in a growing, fast-moving business.

Benefits

Why Infra One

• Ownership from day one. You will build the function and the framework, not maintain someone else's.
• A senior, operator led team that takes compliance seriously because we run the regulated activity ourselves.
• A genuinely global business with the UK at the centre of our next phase.
• The chance to shape how regulatory hosting is done for the next generation of fund managers.

Details

Location: London (hybrid)

Type: Full-time, permanent

Infra One is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and are committed to building an inclusive team.