Mortgage Compliance Specialist Jobs

Job Summary:

As a member of the Product Implementation team, we are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Regulatory and Compliance consultant to join our team. As a Compliance Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of compliance policies, procedures, and controls to ensure compliance with all applicable Canadian laws, regulations, and internal policies and procedures. This role requires bilingual proficiency in English and French.

Many of these projects will be directly related to compliance, software development, and infrastructure initiatives for required regulatory changes. As such, this individual will serve as a subject matter expert as it pertains to business-specific processes, security, and compliance. Experience in managing technology-centric compliance deliverables with respect to scope, timelines, and expectations will be critical. The ideal candidate will leverage both skills and experience to ensure project standards, information security, methodology, and best practices are followed and consistently applied.

Roles and Responsibilities:

The candidate should have 5 – 10 years of Retail (Personal Loans, Line of Credit, Credit Card) Channel Compliance Management experience. The candidate should have worked either as a Compliance consultant or should have had prior mortgage compliance experience.

Key Responsibilities:

· Implement a structured approach to capturing compliance requirements and translating them into IT requirements.

· Conduct compliance risk assessments and identify areas of potential compliance risk.

· Investigate and respond to compliance-related inquiries and complaints. Interact with the SME group as well as industry leaders, partners and vendors and articulate requirements.

· Analyze compliance solution options and recommend the preferred option.

· Work with other departments to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies and procedures.

· Ensure that compliance-related documentation and records are accurate and up to date.

· Validate that the IT solution/Product meets identified compliance needs.

· Manage a team of analysts who research and enable dissemination of knowledge with the WGS compliance team.

· Work closely with the sales staff to understand industry compliance gaps in the product.

· Work with the Domain Consultants/Practice Heads to develop solutions/frameworks for industry pain points and developing trends.

· Drive demystification, and point of view on topical subjects through contribution and authoring of thought/white papers.

Role Demands

· Excellence in strategic and analytical problem solving

Excellence in Business analysis to address customer problems, quick analytical thinking, and ability to have focused energy in transforming requirements into solutions.

· Outstanding leadership and communication skills

Polished verbal and written communication style. Ability to confidently build a strong rapport with project teams and customer teams. Good networking skills to work across different multi-cultural teams towards a focused goal. Comfortable in interacting with and presenting to executives and senior business leaders

· Personal Drive

Entrepreneurial drive with a can-do attitude, and a strong desire to learn and shape your own career path. Commitment to making a positive lasting client impact.

· Self-Guided Attitude

The ability to succeed in a professional environment where client and project direction is not always well defined. Qualified candidates will understand how to produce results when working in challenging client environments and/or new business areas.

Experience and skill set required:

· MBA with specialization in Risk Management desired

· Excellent skills in MS Office Tools (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)

· Appreciate technology and business trends.