Senior Director, Compliance Analytics

The role:

This is a strategic leadership role that will be instrumental in implementing SoFi’s member trust-oriented strategy through building out and centralizing best-in-class compliance data analytics and insights capabilities. This role will report directly to the Enterprise CCO, working closely with the Compliance and AML leadership team to provide data, modeling and analytics support, including model buildout and enhancement, data and reporting capabilities, predictive analytics, and data driven insights. 

What you’ll do: 

• Create and lead the implementation of compliance analytics and model development strategies for Compliance and AML.
• Compliance Insights & Oversight: Maintain a robust data analytics framework to align with compliance and regulatory standards, delivering actionable insights through advanced analytics, data mining, and data visualization. 
• Automation and Efficiency: Leverage advanced automation tools and processes to streamline compliance risk assessment, reduce manual effort, and enhance operational efficiency
• Develop improved modeling and screening techniques to better target AML and other regulatory typologies
• Utilize the team capabilities to provide service-based analytical solutions to the various compliance leaders and their teams (Bank and Product Compliance, Independent Control Testing, AML).
• Possess deep understanding of SoFi’s data and reporting capabilities and technology, including the familiarity with attribute-level data and dictionaries and data extraction, transformation and visualization tools.
• Collaborate with the Risk Analytics team and Independent Risk Management to identify synergies and efficiencies between data analytics, engineering and modeling needs across both departments
• Interact with management committees, supervisory teams, executives and Board of Directors pertaining to the scope of the function.

What you’ll need:

• 15+ years of progressive experience implementing and executing compliance analytics programs, including data, reporting and insights strategies, as well as model development, within U.S. global systemically important financial institutions’ risk organizations, including 7+ years in senior leadership roles
• Deep understanding of AML and regulatory requirements at regulated financial institutions. 
• Working experience in building out compliance predictive analytics.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering reporting automation, standardization and visualization initiatives. Recent working knowledge of programming languages and data structures is a strong plus.
• Experience in enabling service models and delivering SLA-based services to internal stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in working with supervisory teams and addressing regulatory feedback in compliance. Deep understanding of regulatory and supervisory expectations.
• Ability to dive into details to generate insights and effectively communicate to executive-level audiences.
• Strong presentation skills: able to use data to tell a clear and compelling story; comfortable with public speaking across various forums including regulatory examinations and be able to effectively and logically communicate when information is being challenged in an open forum
• Extensive experience in building and leading high performing teams, including attracting and retaining top talent.
• Ability and confidence to exercise influence over a wide range of individuals at all levels of technical & business leadership