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Compliance officer with 11 years in financial services compliance, currently leading the compliance programme for a $6B asset consumer lender with 1,900 employees across 3 states. Passed 4 regulatory examinations with 0 matters requiring attention, cut compliance issues identified in monitoring from 140 a year to 38, and built the regulatory change process that implemented 26 rule changes on time. Runs compliance as a control system rather than a policy library, and reports to the board on how well the controls work.
Concentration in Banking and Financial Regulation; member of the state bar since 2015.
Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager since 2019; Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist since 2017.
- Lead the compliance programme and a team of 14 for a $6B asset consumer lender with 1,900 employees, reporting to the chief executive and the board risk committee.
- Passed 4 regulatory examinations across 5 years with 0 matters requiring attention and 0 enforcement actions.
- Cut compliance issues identified in monitoring from 140 a year to 38 by redesigning 60 controls and moving 20 to automated testing.
- Ran compliance monitoring and regulatory change for a $12B bank across 40 regulations and 8 business lines.
- Built the regulatory change process that implemented 26 rule changes on time across 4 years with 0 missed effective dates.
- Led the remediation of a fair lending finding across 18,000 loan files in 9 months, closed by the regulator with 0 further action.
- Advised 8 business lines on about 200 regulatory questions a year with a documented opinion for each.
- Rewrote 45 policies and procedures to a single template that passed the next examination with 0 documentation findings.
- Investigated 30 complaints escalated to the regulator, with 28 closed as resolved by the customer.
Control Redesign and Automation. Mapped 60 key compliance controls to regulatory requirements, redesigned 35 that relied on manual review, and moved 20 to automated testing over transaction data with monthly reporting, which cut monitoring issues from 140 a year to 38 and cut testing hours 45%.
Regulatory Change Process. Built a regulatory change process with a weekly intake from 3 regulatory sources, impact assessment within 10 days, an owner and plan for each change, and a tracked implementation, which delivered 26 rule changes on time over 4 years and became the model for the enterprise.
Fair Lending Remediation. Led a 9-month remediation of a fair lending finding covering 18,000 loan files, with a statistical review, customer restitution of $2.1M, and a revised pricing control, which the regulator closed with 0 further action and which produced 0 fair lending findings in the 2 examinations since.
- Serve on the compliance committee of a state bankers association, meeting 6 times a year.
- Speak at financial services compliance conferences about 3 times a year on control automation.
- Volunteer legal advisor to a nonprofit credit counselling agency serving about 4,000 clients a year.
- Lead a compliance team of 14 with 3 direct reports, and serve on the executive risk committee of 8.
- Present the compliance programme, examination results, and issue status to the board risk committee quarterly.
- Developed 4 compliance analysts into manager roles across 8 years.

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