Establish and lead Oritain’s global risk and compliance capability, assessing regulatory obligations across the UK, US, and other key jurisdictions and building scalable frameworks that support growth while maintaining strong governance.
Acting as the internal owner for US regulatory compliance, ensuring the business is well positioned to pursue commercial and government opportunities by embedding compliance early in bids, contracts, and delivery.
Design and implement the organisation’s enterprise risk management framework, maintaining the corporate risk register and leading risk assessments for strategic initiatives such as US expansion, government contracts, and new partnerships.
Oversee compliance monitoring and reporting, identify and close gaps, and provide clear risk insights to the CFO, Executive Leadership Team, and Board.
Work closely with teams across the business, embedding compliance and risk thinking into everyday decision-making, supporting new initiatives and market entry, and ensuring policies and processes remain active, understood, and effective.
Lead training, provide trusted guidance to stakeholders, and manage investigations or regulatory engagement where required.

Strong experience in risk, compliance, or governance roles, ideally within complex or international environments.
Built or designed risk and compliance frameworks yourself, not simply maintained existing ones.
Comfortable working in hands-on roles within growing organisations, where introducing structure needs to be balanced with commercial pragmatism.
Strong understanding of both UK and US regulatory environments, particularly across areas such as data protection, ethics, anti-bribery, and contracting standards.
Experience supporting US government contracting readiness or working within regulated US markets is essential.
Confident engaging with senior stakeholders and able to communicate complex risk and compliance matters clearly at both executive and board level.
Sound judgement, strong commercial awareness, and the ability to introduce the right level of structure without creating unnecessary complexity.

Hybrid working set-up (Minimum 3 days per week required in our office in Farringdon
London)
Paid Leave
35 days (inclusive of public holidays)
Birthday Off
Enhanced Parental Leave
Life Insurance
Critical Illness Cover
Choice of Private Medical Insurance or Annual Health Check
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Pension
Breakfast, Snacks, Friday lunch & Barista Coffee Machine in the office
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Head of Compliance, Risk

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