Compliance Manager – Regulatory Change Management

Compliance Manager – Regulatory Change Management

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Law, or related field.
• Minimum of 6-8 years of experience in regulatory compliance, legal, or compliance risk management in a bank or financial services company.
• Strong working knowledge of federal and state banking laws and regulations including, but not limited to, Reg Z, E, DD, CC, UDAAP, FCRA, BSA/AML, and Fair Lending.
• Demonstrated success in implementing or managing regulatory change programs within a compliance or enterprise risk function.
• Deep understanding of the CMS and 2LOD responsibilities including independence, credible challenge, documentation standards, and escalation protocols.
• Excellent analytical, writing, and communication skills, with the ability to convert regulatory language into actionable and digestible guidance.
• Highly organized and accountable; able to manage multiple priorities and tight deadlines with accuracy and clarity.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills across lines of defense.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the end-to-end Regulatory Change Management (RCM) process including intake, impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, and change tracking through to implementation and validation.
• Monitor regulatory developments from primary sources (e.g., CFPB, OCC, FDIC, FRB, state regulators) and secondary services (e.g., Wolters Kluwer, Compliance.ai).
• Facilitate regulatory applicability analysis and collaborate with legal and compliance SMEs to assess business impact.
• Maintain a centralized regulatory inventory, including taxonomy alignment with products, services, business units, and laws/regulations.
• Partner with business, legal, and first-line risk owners to ensure timely action planning, control development, and compliance implementation.
• Develop dashboards and reports for senior leadership and regulatory examiners to provide transparency on regulatory developments and compliance status.
• Support Compliance Policy and Training teams in ensuring affected documents and training are updated in response to regulatory changes.
• Lead working groups or cross-functional forums to track implementation of regulatory changes, document decisions, and escalate risk issues.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance regulatory change protocols, including triggers, roles, documentation standards, and effectiveness testing.
• Serve as a strategic partner to the enterprise on compliance readiness, guiding sustainable compliance with new or amended regulations.
• Contribute to regulatory exam preparedness and response, including producing evidence of effective regulatory change governance.

Preferred Qualifications

• CRCM, CAMS, or CCEP certification are highly preferred.
• Experience with GRC systems (e.g.,ServiceNow) to track regulatory changes and tie them to controls and policies.
• Experience with Reg Change Management tools (e.g., Compliance AI, Regology, Cube).
• Familiarity with regulatory exams and supervisory expectations related to change management (OCC 2011-29, OCC 2017-43).
• Experience contributing to or leading compliance transformation programs including automation of compliance processes and taxonomy standardization.
• Understanding of policy governance, training updates, and control testing in response to regulatory change.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint or Google Suite tools with a strong command of visualization techniques for dashboards and summaries.
• Strategic problem-solver with a bias for action and the ability to drive sustainable compliance solutions across the enterprise.
• Comfortable in an agile, entrepreneurial environment and able to deliver results under changing priorities.