Compliance Manager — Reporting, Contractual Deadlines & Management Agreements

SunStrong Management, LLC • Houston, TX

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About The Position

We are hiring a Compliance Manager to own contractual reporting timelines and management‑agreement obligations for structured‑finance transactions. The primary responsibility is to review financing, offtake, tax‑equity, management, and other project documents to extract all reporting, filing, payment, notice, and service‑level deadlines, and to maintain a centralized system of record that drives timely execution across finance, operations, legal, tax, and other stakeholders. This role ensures the business meets its contractual obligations, reduces missed deliverables and penalties, and provides a single source of truth for all covenant, reporting, and operational commitments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Law, or a related field.
• 3+ years’ experience reviewing structured‑finance, project, or commercial contracts and administering contractual compliance in a corporate, servicer, or investor setting.
• Strong knowledge of financing documents (credit agreements, indentures, tax‑equity agreements, offtake contracts), management agreements, and common reporting and SLA obligations.
• Demonstrated experience implementing or maintaining a contract/deadline tracking system or compliance database.
• Excellent attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and clear written/verbal communication.
• Proficiency with Excel; experience with contract‑management, document‑management, or workflow tools (Salesforce, SharePoint, Workiva, iManage, NetDocuments, or similar) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review financing, offtake, tax‑equity, securitization, management agreements (including O&M and asset‑management agreements), and other project documents to identify and extract all reporting, filing, payment, notice, and SLA deadlines (including cadence, deliverable owners, required formats, and recipients).
• Interpret contractual language to determine triggers, cure periods, notice recipients, approval thresholds, and operational obligations under management agreements (e.g., performance metrics, response times, escalation paths).
• Populate and maintain the centralized compliance tracker / system of record with deadlines, owners, dependencies, and supporting documentation.
• Ensure data integrity through regular reconciliation of source documents, change tracking, and version control.
• Assign and communicate contractual and management‑agreement obligations to responsible teams (finance, accounting, operations, tax, legal, investor relations) and provide clear instructions on timing, format, and escalation paths.
• Direct internal stakeholders on their responsibilities under management agreements and coordinate remediation or contractually required actions when obligations are at risk.
• Run recurring workflows and calendarized notifications to ensure deliverables are completed on time.
• Act as the single point of contact for deadline questions, clarifications, and exceptions.
• Implement automated reminders and escalation logic; proactively monitor upcoming deadlines, SLAs, and outstanding items.
• Escalate imminent or missed obligations to senior management and propose remediation steps.
• Prepare periodic compliance‑status reports and dashboards for senior leadership and financing parties.
• Support internal and external audits by producing evidence of compliance, submission logs, and historical correspondence.
• Maintain an audit‑ready record of submissions, approvals, waivers, and SLA performance metrics.
• Identify gaps and inefficiencies in compliance and management‑agreement workflows and implement standardized templates, checklists, and SLAs.
• Drive automation opportunities (calendar integration, alerts, vendor or third‑party tools) to reduce manual effort and control risk.
• Train stakeholders on compliance processes and use of the system of record.
• Analyze contractual risks related to missed deadlines, covenants, SLA breaches, and notice requirements and advise business owners on mitigation strategies.
• Recommend contractual clarifications or amendments where recurring ambiguity creates operational risk.
• Support Legal in onboarding completed transaction documentation and executed management agreements into the company’s legal repository.
• Ensure all source documents, certificates, compliance deliverables, SLAs, and related correspondence are uploaded promptly and organized according to a standardized, logical file structure and naming conventions.
• Apply appropriate metadata/tags and maintain access controls to facilitate searchability and governance.
• Coordinate with Legal to confirm completeness of due‑diligence packages and to remediate any missing or inconsistent documentation.
• Maintain a reference index and provide guidance to teams on repository usage and retrieval best practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level