Compliance Manager Senior

FIS Global•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

The Compliance Manager Senior will track, review and communicate pending and passed regulations, agency guidelines or directives to impacted lines of business and assist in setting priorities for regulatory issues that must be addressed by the business.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business administration or law or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience. 5-7 years of relevant experience preferred.
Communicates ideas both verbally and in written form in a clear, concise, and professional manner
Comprehensive knowledge of at least one substantive area of compliance, such as banking regulations, anti-money laundering, or anti-corruption
Excellent analytical skills
Ability to understand technical documents and legal or regulatory reference materials
Ability to understand and apply learned concepts
Demonstrated ability to plan and complete work within tight time limitations
Ability to apply creative problem solving techniques and tools to compliance issues
Ability to follow and conduct a compliance monitoring program
Ability to provide information to a variety of audiences and deal effectively with confidential issues that are sensitive in nature
Ability to share information with awareness of its effect on others

Responsibilities

Monitors and communicates regulatory changes that impact FIS products, services and business activities.
Establishes operational objectives and work plans.
Develops, modifies and executes company policies that affect immediate operations.
Oversees development and implementation of compliance program policies and standards as well as addressing other required regulatory policies.
Responds to issues and matters pertaining to regulatory compliance of FIS products, services and business activities.
Performs periodic reviews and evaluations of FIS products, services and business activities to validate compliance with applicable laws and regulations or detect regulatory violations, weak controls or other potential areas of exposure.
Assists in providing final disposition of any discrepancies regarding compliance issues.
Ensures strategic objectives of the Compliance & Ethics Program are met, including execution of risk assessment activities, coordination of risk response and program testing and validation.
Identifies key business processes, performs evaluations of risk, assesses the effectiveness of controls and promotes improvement across the organization through the deployment of risk response activities.
Designs and deploys processes to validate FIS products, services and business activities meet all applicable regulatory requirements.
Participates in corporate development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs and people.
Creates and delivers training to other business areas to increase compliance awareness.
Develops and motivates staff.
Maintains knowledge of applicable laws and regulations.
Offers guidance on implementing regulatory changes.
Communicates detailed requirements to line of business, validate solution approach and monitor status.
Provides compliance reviews and direction for new and expanding products and services.
Conducts compliance assessments and provides direction on any deficiencies detected by those assessments.
Meets with business unit Compliance Officers on a regular basis for status updates on compliance issues.
Monitors line of business compliance activities to verify that regulatory compliance deadlines and requirements are met.
Participates in training promoting compliance awareness.
Identifies areas of potential improvement.
Provides updates for periodic reports.
Interfaces with legal counsel and federal, state, and local agencies, as needed to address regulatory or compliance issues, concerns or questions.
Assists the business with responses to customer compliance-specific questions and concerns.
Participates with and/or leads customer focus and advisory groups.
Prepares and approves internal and customer communications covering compliance issues (bulletins, position statements, monthly reports, etc.