Regulatory and Compliance Team Lead

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the compliance framework for WBL's lending, servicing, and corporate operations

• Maintain the compliance risk assessment, obligations inventory, control framework, annual work plan, and reporting calendar

• Create and uphold compliance policies, procedures, standards, training materials, and documentation of completion

• Delegate, prioritize, and review the tasks of the Regulatory Associate and Compliance Associate while fostering their professional growth

• Ensure compliance with relevant federal and state regulations, including usury limits, licensing requirements, and disclosure obligations

• Supervise the management of regulatory changes and validate their implementation

• Coordinate licensing, registration, examination, inquiry, and regulatory-response activities in collaboration with Legal and business stakeholders

• Develop risk-based monitoring and testing strategies

• Analyze findings, identify root causes, assign corrective measures, and track remediation until completion

• Escalate significant or recurring compliance issues and assist management in decision-making with comprehensive risk analysis

• Keep audit-ready documentation of reviews, findings, approvals, and remediation efforts

• Collaborate with Legal, Operations, Lending, Servicing, Finance, Internal Audit, Information Technology, and other departments

• Deliver dashboards, trend analyses, risk summaries, and status reports to Corporate Legal and executive leadership

• Support modifications to products, processes, vendors, and jurisdictions by determining compliance requirements prior to implementation

• Promote continuous improvement in compliance workflows, documentation, quality assurance, and reporting

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in law, compliance, finance, business, public policy, or a related discipline

• 5+ years of experience in regulatory compliance, legal, risk, or audit within the financial services sector or another highly regulated field

• Proficient understanding of U.S. federal and state legal and regulatory frameworks related to lending, servicing, licensing, usury, and disclosures

• Experience in developing or managing compliance policies, controls, monitoring, testing, training, issue management, and reporting

• Previous experience in team leadership, work review, or project management

• Reliable and stable internet connection

• Professional and dedicated remote working setup

• Capability to work efficiently in a remote, multinational organization while maintaining confidentiality

• Experience in regulatory research and change management

• Knowledge of compliance risk assessments, control frameworks, monitoring, and testing

• Familiarity with licensing, disclosure, policy, training, and examination support

• Proficient in issue management, root-cause analysis, remediation tracking, and executive reporting

• JD or a recognized compliance, risk, audit, or financial-services certification is preferred

🏝️ Benefits

• Compensation in USD

• Paid time off (PTO)

• Fully remote work environment