Senior Compliance Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assist Guild Mortgage’s Origination division with complaint management, regulatory examinations, compliance oversight, regulatory research, and compliance advisory support.

• Conduct independent investigations, analyses, and management of a substantial volume of formal origination complaints.

• Act as a backup for servicing-related formal complaints as required.

• Draft written communications and responses for regulators, investors, executives, customers, and other stakeholders.

• Execute root cause analyses for complaints, examination findings, and monitoring outcomes.

• Organize and facilitate examinations from state, federal, agency, GSE, and investors.

• Oversee document production, response coordination, issue tracking, and remediation efforts.

• Handle multiple examinations and complaint issues while adhering to regulatory deadlines.

• Design, develop, implement, sustain, and enhance risk-based and other compliance monitoring reviews.

• Create testing methodologies, sampling strategies, workpapers, reporting templates, and executive summaries.

• Conduct transactional testing, analyze results, communicate findings, and suggest corrective measures.

• Research and interpret regulatory standards.

• Review regulatory updates and implement necessary process modifications as instructed.

• Prepare executive summaries, trend analyses, examination updates, monitoring reports, and briefing materials for senior leadership.

• Identify opportunities to strengthen compliance controls, refine processes, and enhance the Compliance Management System.

• Escalate significant compliance risks and perform other assigned responsibilities.

• Operate under broad guidance with substantial freedom for independent action.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Legal Studies, or a related discipline preferred; a combination of education and experience may substitute for the Bachelor’s degree.

• At least five years of experience in mortgage compliance.

• Capability to organize and manage multiple priorities concurrently.

• Strong interpersonal and customer service abilities.

• Capacity to handle confidential information with discretion.

• Exceptional writing skills for concise, persuasive, regulator-ready complaint responses, examination narratives, executive summaries, and analytical reports.

• Strong critical thinking and sound judgment.

• Ability to design and enhance compliance monitoring programs and testing methodologies.

• Executive presence and effective communication with regulators, executives, attorneys, auditors, and operational leadership.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential.

• Highly organized and detail-oriented; ability to thrive in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment is required.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Word, Excel, Wiki, collaborative cloud-based applications, and third-party software programs.

• Work authorization/location: Remote within the United States.

• Monday–Friday business-week schedule; some night or weekend work may be necessary.

• Travel 5% or less.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• AD&D insurance

• LTD insurance

• 401(k) with employer match

• Pleasant work environment

• Competitive compensation

• Occasional night or weekend work may be necessary