Senior GRC & Compliance Leader – Enterprise SaaS

beqom; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

beqom, a high-growth B2B SaaS company, seeks an experienced GRC Manager to own governance, risk and compliance across our international footprint — including banking and financial services. You will design scalable controls, risk assessments, and policy frameworks that enable trusted customer relationships.

Reporting to the Head of Legal, you will collaborate with Legal, Security, Product, Engineering, Finance, People and Go-to-Market teams to drive regulatory readiness, audits, and third‑party

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a GRC, compliance, risk, governance, or regulatory assurance role.
• Experience in a B2B SaaS, fintech, regtech, payments, or other technology environment serving regulated customers.
• Demonstrated success building or scaling a compliance or GRC function in an international company.
• Strong working knowledge of privacy, control frameworks, policy governance, audit coordination, and third‑party risk management.
• Experience supporting enterprise customer due diligence and audits.
• Strong judgement and stakeholder management skills — comfortable engaging at senior and executive level.
• Ability to operate strategically while remaining hands‑on.

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 — in partnership with Legal and Security.
• 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 the expectations of financial‑services clients regarding resilience, oversight, and risk management.
• 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 leadership

Regulatory compliance

Privacy & data protection

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Enterprise SaaS / Regtech familiarity

Tools

SOC 2

ISO 27001

Job description

beqom, a high-growth B2B SaaS company, seeks an experienced GRC Manager to own governance, risk and compliance across our international footprint — including banking and financial services. You will design scalable controls, risk assessments, and policy frameworks that enable trusted customer relationships.

Reporting to the Head of Legal, you will collaborate with Legal, Security, Product, Engineering, Finance, People and Go-to-Market teams to drive regulatory readiness, audits, and third‑party