Real Estate Compliance Officer Employment Contract UK

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

• Review transaction and customer files.
• Monitor AML disclosure and money controls.
• Investigate alerts and control failures.
• Deliver training and procedural updates.
• Report risks breaches and remediation.

A realistic working scenario

A purchaser's funding route changes shortly before exchange, so the officer requires updated source evidence and risk review rather than relying on the earlier check.

Outputs to agree

• evidenced property compliance controls
• timely identified and remediated breaches
• clear management compliance reporting

Records and evidence

• File sample scope finding and owner.
• Identity funding alert and decision.
• Breach impact escalation and action.
• Training attendee version and assessment.
• Work records.
• Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Line Manager or Department Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

• The officer cannot guarantee legality, suppress protected concerns, approve their own remediation evidence, alter source records or disclose restricted reports casually.
• Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

• Property management systems.
• Inspection tools.

Workplace context

• Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

Contract priorities

• business lines sites and independence
• AML sanctions files and customer checks
• client money referrals disclosures and complaints
• monitoring breaches training and reporting

Information the employer should prepare

• the property services and risk assessment
• the regulated controls and policies
• the systems access and reporting authority
• the breach and remediation process
• the board legal finance and MLRO contacts