Compliance and Risk Lead

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Banking
Auditing
FFIEC
IT Audit
IT Governance
IT Risk
Information Technology
Stakeholder Engagement
Sarbanes-Oxley
Stakeholder Management
Risk Management

Job Details

MUST HAVE BANKING EXPERIENCE

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled IT Infrastructure Compliance and Risk Management Lead to join our US banking technology organization. This role will be responsible for overseeing IT risk and compliance activities across the US infrastructure domain, ensuring adherence to regulatory expectations, internal governance standards, and audit requirements. The successful candidate will partner closely with the US CIO governance team, global stakeholders, and senior leadership to drive sustainable compliance, manage remediation activities, and maintain effective risk controls.

Key Responsibilities

  • Risk & Compliance Execution: Lead execution of IT risk and compliance activities (1A) for the US Infrastructure domain, aligning with governance frameworks and supporting timely remediation of noncompliant items.

  • Audit & Assessments: Act as the primary point of contact for internal and external IT audits and assessments (including RCSA), coordinating evidence collection, stakeholder engagement, and timely response to requests.

  • Remediation Management: Serve as the intake point for IT compliance and risk remediation, ensuring triage, tracking, and resolution while delivering clear dashboards and executive summaries to senior leadership.

  • Risk Exception Oversight: Manage the end-to-end IT risk exception process, including assessment, workflow guidance, remediation tracking, and regulatory reporting.

  • KRI Monitoring: Oversee Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), identify emerging risk trends, and lead remediation efforts when thresholds are breached.

  • Regulatory Alignment: Partner with compliance teams to operationalize US regulatory requirements, translating expectations into IT controls, processes, and roadmaps.

  • Governance Representation: Represent US interests on Global IT Steering Committees, aligning regional priorities with global strategies.

  • Continuous Improvement: Drive consistency, accountability, and sustainability in IT procedures, controls, and governance frameworks with a focus on long-term effectiveness.

  • Compliance Calendar: Maintain and manage an IT compliance calendar to ensure audit, regulatory, and remediation deadlines are met with minimal disruption.

  • Data Residency Oversight: Oversee IT applications subject to US data residency and regulatory hosting requirements.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Risk Management, or related field (Master s preferred).

  • 10+ years of IT risk and compliance experience, preferably within the banking or financial services sector.

  • Strong knowledge of IT governance, risk management frameworks, and regulatory requirements (e.g., FFIEC, OCC, SOX, GDPR, FERPA).

  • Hands-on experience managing audits, risk remediation, exception management, and compliance reporting.

  • Proven ability to influence stakeholders and present risk/compliance insights to senior executives.

  • Familiarity with infrastructure hosting, data residency, and regulatory technology requirements.

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to navigate complex, global organizations.

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