Director of Compliance

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🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $149k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🚔 Compliance

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First Help Financial

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51 - 200 employees

💸 Finance

🏦 Banking

💳 Fintech

Finance • Banking • Fintech

First Help Financial is an innovative and fast-growing auto finance company that has been serving customers with limited access to financial services for over a decade. The company focuses on providing fairly priced auto loans to consumers who are typically overlooked or mispriced by traditional financial institutions. Dedicated to a mission-driven approach, First Help Financial values culture, diversity, collaboration, and impeccable customer service, working closely with communities to support financial success and understanding. They offer multilingual customer support from application to payoff, ensuring a partnership for customer financial success.

📋 Description

• Identify gaps, score and rank compliance obligations by likelihood and severity, and maintain a living risk register. • Control design: build and maintain controls that translate compliance requirements into day-to-day business practices. • Draft, maintain, and disseminate policies and procedures, ensuring the inventory stays current and properly version-controlled. • Run a structured, risk-based monitoring and testing program, including a defined testing calendar and methodology. • Log findings from testing, audits, exams, and self-identification; assign root cause; and drive remediation to closure against defined timelines. • Coordinate regulatory examinations under the VP of Compliance's sponsorship, including document requests, scheduling, and examiner communication logistics. • Build and maintain KPI dashboards and prepare regular compliance reporting on program health, findings, and remediation status for the VP of Compliance, executive leadership, and the board. • Directly lead assigned compliance staff, with accountability for their performance and development. • Work directly with business, operations, and technology stakeholders to embed compliance requirements into day-to-day processes.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a related field. Certification in compliance (e.g., CRCM) a plus. • 7+ years in financial regulatory compliance, with at least 5 years in a senior compliance role, preferably in auto lending, small-dollar consumer lending, and/or other highly regulated consumer lending space. • Solid knowledge of federal and state financial services laws and regulations. • Experience supporting the scaling of a compliance program in a fast-paced, growing organization. • Proven experience managing a team and working with key stakeholders to drive the business forward. • Hands-on experience with compliance risk management and governance: risk identification, scoring methodologies, risk registers, and risk-based monitoring and testing. • Experience using and/or support implementation of a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platform. • Experience drafting and managing the lifecycle of policies and procedures. • Proficient in leveraging technology to drive efficiency, with openness to adopting and integrating AI solutions into workflows. • Ability to operate independently and take ownership of complex initiatives.

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous salaries • Competitive health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, LTD/STD, Identity theft, paid parental leave and much more) • Paid vacation • 401(k) match • Tuition reimbursement • Social activities • Monthly lunches • Robust employee recognition and talent development program to enhance your career with us. • Healthy work-life balance