Correspondent Banking Compliance

Responsibilities

• Enhance existing procedures, requirements, and processes for onboarding correspondent banks globally.
• Run the diligence process for new countries: map geo-specific risks, write country risk assessments, and design rules and systems to detect and monitor these risks.
• Execute the onboarding process for new correspondent bank partners according to the framework, policies, and procedures.
• Lead the periodic review process for partner banks.
• Partner with Compliance and Risk stakeholders to refine and execute ongoing monitoring for correspondent banking relationships, including periodic reviews, trigger events, and escalation criteria.
• Support business development conversations with the GTM team: evaluate target customers, educate prospective customers on working with Column’s risk and compliance teams.
• Work with GTM and Business teams to coordinate product rollouts, navigate regional risks, provide guardrails, and create customer-facing documentation.

Requirements

• 6-8+ years of regulatory, compliance or risk management experience with a focus on international financial activity.
• Ability to build and operationalize policies, procedures, and workflows.
• Strong familiarity with underwriting geographic and political risks.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to create detailed, clear documentation for a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Ability to jump into new situations and quickly solve problems, with an eye towards architecting solutions that will scale.
• Hyper-organized approach to project management, including coordinating efforts across multiple teams; comfort juggling multiple projects and priorities.
• Scrappy, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude.
• Ability to travel frequently (monthly trips to SF in first six months if not local, then 5x/year; heavy international travel to client and prospective banks).

Nice-to-Haves

• Previous correspondent banking experience.