Compliance Associate

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Turkey, +5 more countries.

📋 Description

• Assist in the daily operations of WBL's compliance program.

• Conduct regular monitoring and testing of lending, servicing, disclosure, licensing, and corporate compliance controls.

• Choose samples, examine records, document outcomes, and keep supporting evidence on file.

• Identify discrepancies, evaluate trends, and report potentially significant or recurring issues to the Team Lead.

• Aid in quality-assurance reviews and verify the completion of corrective measures.

• Maintain inventories of compliance policies and procedures, including review schedules, approval histories, and published versions.

• Coordinate updates to policies and procedures with process owners and ensure approvals and distribution.

• Manage compliance training assignments, track attendance, attestations, completions, and follow-up.

• Create checklists, job aids, communications, and reference materials.

• Log findings, risks, owners, due dates, and corrective actions into the issue-management process.

• Follow up with action owners, review evidence, and keep accurate status records.

• Assist in root-cause analysis, trend reporting, and the identification of recurring control weaknesses.

• Maintain documentation ready for audits concerning compliance issues.

• Generate dashboards and reports on monitoring, training, policy reviews, findings, and remediation efforts.

• Respond to documentation requests from Legal, Internal Audit, Operations, and authorized stakeholders.

• Support compliance reviews related to operational changes.

• Suggest workflow and documentation enhancements based on testing outcomes and recurring inquiries.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in compliance, finance, business, accounting, legal studies, or a related discipline.

• Relevant equivalent experience may be taken into account.

• While compliance, risk, audit, or financial-services certification is preferred, it is not mandatory.

• Over 2 years of experience in compliance, quality assurance, risk, audit, lending operations, servicing, or a similar controlled environment.

• Experience in conducting sample-based reviews, documenting findings, maintaining evidence, or tracking corrective actions.

• Familiarity with regulated financial-services processes is advantageous.

• Strong analytical, documentation, spreadsheet, and deadline-management capabilities.

• Experience in financial services, commercial lending, private lending, banking, fintech, specialty finance, mortgage lending, or another highly regulated industry is preferred.

• Competence in compliance monitoring, testing, sampling, and workpaper documentation.

• Experience in managing policies, procedures, training, and attestations.

• Skills in issue logging, remediation tracking, and evidence validation.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and compliance or workflow-management systems.

• A stable, reliable internet connection.

• A professional and dedicated remote working setup.

• Ability to work efficiently across a remote, multinational organization while maintaining confidentiality.

🏝️ Benefits

• Compensation paid in USD.

• Paid time off (PTO).

• Fully remote work environment.