Senior Associate, Compliance Advisory
💰 $80,000 – $130,000/yrMarket estimate · not provided by the employer
At a glance
- Who can apply
- United States
- Work arrangement
- On-site · Chicago, IL, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years (as stated by the employer)
- Salary
- $80,000 – $130,000/yr · market estimate
- ✓ Open to early-career candidates
Checked against the employer's source on October 21, 2026. Details come from the employer's posting; confirm them on the application page.
Job Description
About the Role
The Sr. Associate, Compliance Advisory partners with Complaints, Product, Operations, and other business teams to provide compliance guidance as a second line of defense. The role supports consumer complaint oversight, new and existing product operations advisory, agent readiness, member- and agent-facing communications, and process improvement while identifying consumer and regulatory risks and helping drive issues through remediation and implementation.
In this role, you can expect to
Complaints Management
- Advise the first line of defense on complaint-management requirements, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices.
- Review complaint-handling processes, procedures, controls, and documentation; identify gaps and recommend remediation, maintaining ownership of the issue lifecycle from informing the business of identified gaps and recommendations through completed remediation and implementation.
- Recommend and implement process improvements that balance regulatory requirements with innovative, member-friendly solutions.
- Demonstrate knowledge of and apply consumer financial regulations—including Regulations Z, E, and DD, UDAAP, NACHA, VISA Operating Standards, and applicable state requirements—through compliance advisory work and day-to-day responsibilities.
- Support operational teams in investigating and resolving consumer complaints while analyzing trends and potential member impact.
- Perform oversight and monitoring to promote timely, accurate, and appropriate complaint resolution.
- Develop and refine complaint procedures, guidance, training materials, and educational resources.
- Assist with responses to sensitive and regulatory complaints and inquiries.
- Ensure complaint-related work, processes, procedures, and guidance align with all applicable requirements of the Complaints Policy.
- Support regulatory, bank partner, and internal audit readiness by collecting, organizing, and validating requested documentation and helping ensure complaint processes and records are complete and current.
- Review complaint dashboards and complaint trends to identify emerging risks, recurring issues, and opportunities for improvement.
- Present compliance findings, complaint trends, risk assessments, recommendations, training, and process updates to business partners and relevant business stakeholders when needed.
- Prepare executive-level reports and presentations on compliance findings data, trends, risks, and recommendations.
Compliance Advisory
- Provide compliance advisory support for operations supporting new products and changes to existing products, including identifying compliance considerations and helping teams address related risks and requirements.
- Translate complex compliance requirements and data-driven insights into clear, practical, and actionable guidance for business partners and member-facing teams.
- Support agent readiness for new products and changes to existing products by partnering on agent-facing communications, member-facing communications, help center articles, training, and other agent-ready content.
- Partner with Compliance, Legal, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, bank partners, and business teams to mitigate compliance risk.
- Demonstrate strong proficiency in AI tooling and proactively identify responsible AI-enabled tools and workflows that help the Compliance Advisory team work more efficiently and effectively.
- Use AI tooling to accelerate data analysis, complaint-trend identification, monitoring, oversight, research, documentation, reporting, and preparation of business-partner guidance while maintaining appropriate human review and compliance with confidentiality requirements.
- Leverage AI-enabled insights to help business partners make faster, better-informed decisions and improve outcomes for members.
- Support quality assurance and quality control business partners as a second line of defense by helping ensure the program is regulatory sound, appropriately designed, and operating effectively for its intended purpose.
- Serve as a knowledgeable Compliance presence in meetings with bank partners and business partners by contributing to discussions, answering questions, and identifying compliance considerations.
Core Competencies
- Consumer complaints and complaint-program management and oversight.
- Regulatory knowledge, including the ability to interpret applicable regulations and translate them into practical, risk-based guidance for products, processes, and member experiences.
- Risk identification, escalation, and remediation.
- Executive and business-partner communication and presentation skills.
- Data analysis, automation, and practical application of AI tools.
- Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.
- Process documentation, monitoring, training, and continuous improvement.
- Independent execution and resourcefulness, including taking end-to-end ownership.
To thrive in this role, you have
- 5+ years of compliance experience in fintech, banking, or financial services, including meaningful work supporting consumer financial products and a track record of operating with a high degree of independence
- Direct, hands-on experience with deposit accounts and credit products
- Hands-on experience with consumer complaints and complaint-program management and oversight
- Strong regulatory knowledge, with the ability to interpret applicable regulations and translate them into practical, risk-based guidance for products, processes, and member experiences
- A sharp instinct for risk identification, escalation, and remediation — and the persistence to see issues through to closure
- Experience supporting regulatory exams, bank partner reviews, or internal audits
- Executive and business-partner communication and presentation skills
- Comfort with data analysis and automation, and practical experience applying AI tools to real work
- A collaborative approach to cross-functional work and stakeholder management
- Experience with process documentation, monitoring, training, and continuous improvement
- A bias toward independent execution and resourcefulness, including taking end-to-end ownership from problem to solution
- Comfort working in a fast pace environment that doesn't slow down
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Below is the base salary offered for this role and level of experience. Full-time employees may also be eligible for bonus(es), competitive equity, and benefits. For commissioned roles, the base salary listed in this job description does not include incentive/variable pay. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.
