Compliance Specialist - Remote

Overview

Help us build a luxury-focused FinTech in Travel Rewards space! Taekus is looking for a Compliance Specialist to manage our compliance initiatives to support our customers and with our premium user experience. As a fast-growing FinTech with $70m revenue-run-rate, we have increasing complexities in our product offering and compliance requirements. We need someone with a hustle mentality to help shape our compliance department efficiency. You will be reporting to our Head of Compliance.

In Short

• Support leadership in identifying, documenting, and rating controls and risks as part of the Risk Assessment program.
• Partner with complaint management including track, analyze, and address customer complaints related to the Taekus debit and credit, ensuring timely resolution and compliance with regulatory expectations.
• Respond to bank, audit, partner bank, and regulatory requests.
• Identify compliance gaps or issues and work cross-functionally to implement corrective actions to ensure a well-integrated approach to regulator compliance.
• Review escalations from key compliance processes based on defined risk thresholds.
• Investigate and escalate potential alerts and suspicious transactions in accordance with AML and fraud prevention policies.
• Support day-to-day compliance operations for the credit and debit card product lines while maintaining program compliance with regulatory standards.
• Contribute to oversight and management committees on the state of compliance risk and prepare reporting materials.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree. Preferred CRCM, CAMS, or similar certifications.
• 2-4 years of compliance experience in credit, banking, fintech, or other financial regulatory compliance industry with a focus on credit card regulatory compliance.
• Possess understanding of credit and banking laws and regulations including BSA/AML, UDAAP, ECOA, MLA/SCRA, FCRA, TILA TISA, and associated regulations.
• Ability to identify potential compliance issues and work effectively to remediate them.
• Demonstrate a track record of supporting key Compliance initiatives.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock option plan
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401k plan + 5% Match
• Flexible vacation policy
• (1) Free business class international ticket.