The Bancorp

VP Compliance Strategy – Process Automation

The Bancorp

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Sioux Falls • South Dakota • United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

RPA

About the role

  • Designs and executes a multi-year Compliance Strategy & Automation roadmap aligned with Bancorp’s growth in payments, lending, and fintech sponsorship.
  • Builds and operationalizes a scalable compliance architecture that supports the sponsor bank model, including standardized control taxonomies, compliance libraries, and alignment to the enterprise risk framework and risk appetite.
  • Establishes and maintains end-to-end regulatory traceability from regulation → risk → policy → control → monitoring → testing → evidence repository.
  • Develops and automates regulatory change management processes, including obligation mapping, impact analysis, inventory governance, and formal ownership/attestation protocols.
  • Designs and implements scalable fintech oversight frameworks, including regulatory obligation mapping, control inventories, automated monitoring, performance dashboards, and structured data-sharing protocols.
  • Integrates compliance automation into third-party risk management lifecycle processes, ensuring regulatory expectations related to BSA/AML, consumer protection, model risk, and third-party oversight are operationalized through system-based reporting.
  • Leads implementation, optimization, and governance of GRC and compliance technology platforms, reducing reliance on manual and spreadsheet-based tracking.
  • Identifies and executes automation initiatives across compliance processes, including control testing, issue management, complaint oversight, transaction monitoring QA, and product/marketing reviews, leveraging workflow tools, RPA, and AI-enabled surveillance where appropriate.
  • Develops executive and board-level compliance reporting frameworks, including dashboards, KRIs, KPIs, and risk analytics related to fintech partner risk, BSA performance, consumer compliance, and issue management.
  • Enhances second-line monitoring through data-driven methodologies, including analytics-based testing, exception reporting, and real-time compliance visibility.
  • Strengthens regulatory examination readiness and defensibility, including centralized evidence repositories, structured documentation, automated exam response processes, and version control discipline.
  • Conducts post-examination and program maturity analyses to identify root causes, control gaps, and automation-driven process redesign opportunities.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Risk Management, Information Systems, Business-related field or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in banking compliance, regulatory risk, or GRC transformation.
  • Demonstrated experience within: FDIC-regulated bank or sponsor bank model.
  • Fintech partnership oversight and third-party compliance governance.
  • Strong working knowledge of: Consumer compliance (UDAAP, Reg E, Reg Z, Reg DD, etc.)
  • Fair lending principles
  • Third-party risk management expectations
  • Experience implementing or optimizing GRC platforms and compliance workflow tools.
  • Proven track record of leading cross-functional transformation initiatives without direct authority.
Benefits
  • No travel required
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
compliance architectureregulatory change managementobligation mappingimpact analysisautomated monitoringperformance dashboardsdata-driven methodologiesanalytics-based testingtransaction monitoring QAprocess redesign
Soft Skills
leadershipcross-functional collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinking