Assurance Compliance Specialist, Senior

Assurance Compliance Specialist, Senior

North - Remote

Let’s go North, together. 

Join our mission to build the largest suite of credit card processing and merchant services. It’s one simple payment platform backed by the most diverse payment companies. From credit card processing to back-office management, North points the way to smarter, faster, and just plain better payment solutions.

The Assurance Compliance Specialist, Senior is a subject matter expert for North’s Assurance Compliance program. This role owns and executes assigned compliance requirements , including end-to-end program execution processes and related cross-company engagement.

The role supports Compliance leadership in development of processes, and facilitates implementation while contributing to the Compliance teams’ efforts toward achieving and maintaining a sustainable compliance environment that helps ensure a compliant ecosystem as well as continuity and reliability in our business practices.

The role works closely with other members of the Compliance team, as well as business partners, and stakeholders to maintain appropriate compliance requirements, and to ensure monitoring, testing, and reporting are in place and effectively executed with remediation to mitigate compliance risk to our business and our customers.

What you'll do:

• Execute compliance assurance program as a pillar of compliance framework to help ensure effective and sustainable identification of performance health in the execution of compliance requirements, and in detection of early warning signs of potential compliance risks. Program support and tasks execution includes:
  • Supporting maintenance of Inventory of controls, documentation, and testing and monitoring plans
  • KPIs and KRIs, including statistical/probability analysis
  • Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, including rating and prioritization
  • Developing and executing testing plans
  • Conducting root cause analysis
  • Process owner engagement and meeting routines to conduct testing and monitoring, reviewing results and tracking and validating remediation. 
• External engagement in industry organizations, forums and other platforms that are material to compliance and change.
• Serve as a liaison with auditors, regulators, business partners.

What we need from you:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• At least 5 years of compliance assurance testing and monitoring, including statistical analysis of monitoring and testing results, and reporting, and development and execution of testing plans.
• Expert knowledge with highly skilled capabilities in compliance assurance, including testing and monitoring, identification and use of KPIs and KRIs, and accompanying data analytics.
• Ability to translate compliance requirements into business requirements in support of people, processes, and technology execution, management, and controls plans for testing and monitoring, and risk rating.
• Proven ability to communicate, collaborate and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, internal and external business partners, and with regulatory and external independent review entities.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with internal and external cross-functional teams to drive programs and/or products.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to think and communicate creatively, thoughtfully, and on your feet with diverse technical and non-technical groups, spanning all organizational levels.
• Strategic thinker and tactical executor - able to rapidly shift from “big picture” to “detailed operations”.
• Strong team player with excellent track record of success in highly matrixed, fast-paced environments with changing priorities.
• Ability to discern potential impacts of remediation plans to solve issues identified and are sustainable and effective with high degree of certainty.

Travel: Up to 15%

What we offer:

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage

• Flexible Paid Time Off

• 401(k) + Match

• Mental Health Support & Well-Being Program

• Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave

• Education Assistance

• Company-funded Lifestyle Spending Account

Salary Range: $46,000-$80,000 

Pay within this range varies by work location and on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We look forward to discussing your salary expectations and our full total rewards offerings throughout the interview process.

Please note: North is a US based company and no sponsorship is available for this position at this time.

Who we are:

North, and our family of companies, are committed to helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses. As an end-to-end payment solutions company, we provide everything business owners need to get paid, whether they serve customers in a physical storefront, online, or both. We pride ourselves on being large enough to offer customized solutions to our enterprise-level clients while remaining agile enough to take an award-winning, hands-on approach to personal service that our merchants won’t find anywhere else.

Let’s go North, together! Our most important resource is our people. Join our diverse team of innovators and do-ers and make your mark on the future of payments technology. We're proud to offer benefits that help our team members further their overall well-being through unique initiatives that are both personally and professionally fulfilling. 

At North, we celebrate diversity and create an inclusive environment for everyone. We are an equal opportunity employer.

To learn more about North, and our family of companies, visit our website: north.com