Compliance Assistant

We process billions of card transactions a year for merchants, banks and software platforms. Since 1924, the firm has grown through acquisitions of independent advisory practices. Most staff have been with the firm for more than eight years.

The role:

The Compliance Assistant monitors and tests compliance with banking regulations at a community bank with $2.5B in assets and 30 branches. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in New Zealand. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

What you'll be doing:

• Test branch and lending processes against policy and regulation
• Investigate customer complaints that raise compliance issues
• Vet new products, marketing materials and disclosures before launch
• Track regulatory changes and assess their effect on products and processes
• Coordinate regulatory exams and audit requests, and follow findings to closure
• Report compliance metrics to the compliance committee and board
• Maintain the compliance risk assessment

What you need:

• Experience with regulatory exams (FDIC, OCC, Federal Reserve or state regulators)
• Organised, with a careful approach to documentation
• Working knowledge of BSA/AML, OFAC and consumer lending regulations
• Strong writing for policies, findings and board reports
• Sound judgment and the confidence to escalate
• Familiar with AML monitoring systems such as Verafin or Abrigo

Preferred qualifications:

• CAMS or CRCM certification
• Excel or SQL for transaction analysis
• Law degree

Rate: $63,000 - $78,000 per year

What you get:

• Health insurance
• KiwiSaver contributions
• Five weeks annual leave after the first year
• Flexible hours
• Employee assistance programme

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at EJC Asset Management.