# Chief Executive Officer, UK

**Company**: bunq
**Location**: London, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

At bunq, we're reshaping how people experience their financial lives.

As CEO, UK, you will own bunq's growth in the United Kingdom end to end: deciding who we win, how we win them, and what we build the UK business on.

Responsibilities:

- Position bunq as the go-to financial partner for users in the UK by understanding their lifestyle inside out: how they spend, save, and run their money, and where bunq fits in.

- Define and execute the local commercial strategy, delivering on budget, user, and revenue targets.

- Build the go-to-market machine: acquisition, commercial, and operational engines, with KPIs that prove it's working.

- Own the UK P&L and commit to it.

- Secure and operate under the UK license.

- Lead bunq's path to full UK banking authorization, including the application and ongoing dialogue with the PRA and FCA.

- Build and maintain trusted relationships with UK regulators, and act as the senior accountable face of bunq in the UK.

- Work with Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Finance to meet capital, governance, safeguarding, and reporting requirements, and to fill senior roles the regulator expects.

- Translate regulatory milestones into commercial planning, ensuring go-to-market timing, product scope, and growth targets match what the license allows at each stage.

- Ensure the UK business is built to stay compliant as it scales.

- Identify gaps between current and desired states, and own the hiring plan.

- Hire, lead, and develop a high-performing UK team across commercial, operations, and risk and compliance.

- Manage a broad set of stakeholders across Marketing, Product, and external partners.

- Land partnerships that drive user growth and engagement.

Requirements:

- Proven track record running a P&L in financial services, fintech, or a consumer subscription business, ideally in the UK.

- Direct experience with UK financial regulation, ideally a banking or EMI authorization, or senior accountability under the SM&CR regime.

- Credible relationships with, or strong working knowledge of, the PRA, FCA, and the wider UK fintech ecosystem.

- Experience building go-to-market engines from scratch or at scale, with clear KPIs.

- Deep consumer insight and the ability to turn it into product and marketing priorities.

- A builder's mindset: hiring well, moving fast, and staying accountable for the numbers.

- Comfortable working across cultures and time zones with a fast-moving, product-driven team.

Benefits:

- Space and tools to succeed

- Great, international colleagues

- Digital Nomad Program: up to 20 days per year to work while traveling

- Dedicated travel budget: €1.5k after 2 years and €3k after 4 years

- bunq Academy and €1500 annual learning budget

- MacBook

- Delicious lunches from in-house chefs

- Optional pension plan with monthly contribution from bunq

- Monthly contribution to phone and internet bills

- Friday drinks and other celebrations

## Skills

### Required
- UK financial regulation
- banking or EMI authorization
- SM&CR regime
- go-to-market engines
- consumer insight
- product and marketing priorities

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Source: [Apply at careers.bunq.com](https://careers.bunq.com/o/chief-executive-officer-uk-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)