[Remote] Compliance Program Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Catapult Federal Services is seeking a Program Manager III to support a global financial technology company’s Consumer Lending Compliance function. The role will build and scale compliance frameworks for personal and auto loan brokering, including policies, monitoring mechanisms, risk assessments, controls, and remediation processes. The manager will also partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Marketing, and lending teams while reporting program progress and emerging risks to senior leadership.
Responsibilities
- Build out a more robust compliance management system for personal loan brokering and auto loan brokering
- Draft, develop, and manage compliance policies, procedures, and monitoring requirements
- Build and operate compliance monitoring mechanisms that detect and alert stakeholders to potential risks
- Drive ongoing risk assessments across personal and auto loan broker activities
- Identify compliance risks and existing controls, and recommend control improvements
- Manage compliance controls for areas such as state licensing obligations and lien/title release monitoring on paid-off auto loans
- Track identified compliance issues and drive remediation efforts and corrective action plans to closure
- Provide senior management with regular status updates on program build-out, timelines, risks, and obstacles
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, Marketing, and lending partners on time-sensitive priorities
- Independently manage compliance initiatives while collaborating with technical teams when data or systems are needed
Skills
- • 5+ years of compliance experience within fintech, payments, financial services, or an equivalent regulated environment
- • Direct, hands-on experience with consumer lending compliance — loan brokering experience is the top priority
- • Familiarity with applicable federal and state regulations, including ECOA, FCRA, TILA, FDCPA, UDAP, GLBA/Privacy, OFAC, and state lending and broker licensing requirements
- • Experience building or scaling compliance programs and/or Compliance Management System (CMS) elements for new or growing product areas
- • Experience developing policies, procedures, and compliance monitoring
- • Demonstrated risk assessment and controls experience
- • Experience providing compliance advisory to business teams
- • Experience with third-party/vendor management
- • Strong cross-functional stakeholder management and proven project management skills
- • Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to work independently as a self-starter
- Bachelor's degree required, paired with 5+ years of compliance experience within fintech, payments, or financial services, or equivalent experience
- • Direct auto lending or personal lending compliance experience (preferred over mortgage lending when candidates are otherwise equal, though mortgage lending experience can transfer)
- • Experience with loan brokering models and related obligations, particularly state broker licensing
- • Prior work in a fintech environment
- • Professional compliance, audit, or fraud certifications such as CFE, CIA, CRCM, or other relevant credentials
- • Comfort with everyday collaboration and productivity tools (Google Docs/Sheets, Microsoft Outlook) and responsible use of AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot
Benefits
- Approximately 10-month contract with the possibility of extension or conversion to a full-time role (not guaranteed).
- Fully remote within the U.S.
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