VP Compliance Strategy – Process Automation

Role Overview

• Designs and executes a multi-year Compliance Strategy & Automation roadmap aligned with Bancorp’s growth in payments, lending, and fintech sponsorship.
• Builds and operationalizes a scalable compliance architecture that supports the sponsor bank model, including standardized control taxonomies, compliance libraries, and alignment to the enterprise risk framework and risk appetite.
• Establishes and maintains end-to-end regulatory traceability from regulation → risk → policy → control → monitoring → testing → evidence repository.
• Develops and automates regulatory change management processes, including obligation mapping, impact analysis, inventory governance, and formal ownership/attestation protocols.
• Designs and implements scalable fintech oversight frameworks, including regulatory obligation mapping, control inventories, automated monitoring, performance dashboards, and structured data-sharing protocols.
• Integrates compliance automation into third-party risk management lifecycle processes, ensuring regulatory expectations related to BSA/AML, consumer protection, model risk, and third-party oversight are operationalized through system-based reporting.
• Leads implementation, optimization, and governance of GRC and compliance technology platforms, reducing reliance on manual and spreadsheet-based tracking.
• Identifies and executes automation initiatives across compliance processes, including control testing, issue management, complaint oversight, transaction monitoring QA, and product/marketing reviews, leveraging workflow tools, RPA, and AI-enabled surveillance where appropriate.
• Develops executive and board-level compliance reporting frameworks, including dashboards, KRIs, KPIs, and risk analytics related to fintech partner risk, BSA performance, consumer compliance, and issue management.
• Enhances second-line monitoring through data-driven methodologies, including analytics-based testing, exception reporting, and real-time compliance visibility.
• Strengthens regulatory examination readiness and defensibility, including centralized evidence repositories, structured documentation, automated exam response processes, and version control discipline.
• Conducts post-examination and program maturity analyses to identify root causes, control gaps, and automation-driven process redesign opportunities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Risk Management, Information Systems, Business-related field or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
• 10+ years of experience in banking compliance, regulatory risk, or GRC transformation.
• Demonstrated experience within: FDIC-regulated bank or sponsor bank model.
• Fintech partnership oversight and third-party compliance governance.
• Strong working knowledge of: Consumer compliance (UDAAP, Reg E, Reg Z, Reg DD, etc.)
• Fair lending principles
• Third-party risk management expectations
• Experience implementing or optimizing GRC platforms and compliance workflow tools.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional transformation initiatives without direct authority.

Tech Stack

• RPA

Benefits

• No travel required