Federal Regulatory Compliance Counsel

• Washington
• Hybrid
• Yearly salary: $140000 - $150000

Job Description

Americas Credit Unions is a leading company in the Financial Services Trade Association sector known for our advocacy on behalf of all Credit Unions. We fuel our employees professional growth at every level stand committed to the financial well-being of every member and champion the credit union story at every turn.

We are seeking a highly organized and experienced Federal Regulatory Compliance Counsel to play an instrumental role in achieving important parts of Americas Credit Unions strategic plan to foster service excellence by providing trustworthy timely best-in-class compliance assistance information education and training to remove barriers by persuading federal agencies to address implementation and operational issues with federal regulations and to create awareness of Americas Credit Unions value proposition by disseminating information written in plain English. This position is a Hybrid role based in Washington DC.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Compliance Expert representative for Americas Credit Unions
• Working cross-functionally across all of Americas Credit Unions departments to represent Americas Credit Unions in the capacity of compliance counsel.
• Partner with other Advocacy teams to identify compliance problems impacting credit union operations and suggest regulatory and legislative solutions.
• Partner with Association Services to support Americas Credit Unions compliance learning events and provide timely recommendations for curriculum changes and regulatory updates for the organizations various schools conferences webinars and certification programs.
• Partner with Membership and Engagement to develop content and compliance assistance materials on certain topics based on engagement trends and questions from members throughout technology Councils outreach and education interactions.
• Speak at credit union organization events and other credit union-organizations compliance programs and further represent Americas Credit Unions at compliance roundtables and similar events.
• Actively engage with credit unions via the compliance in-box. Respond to federal regulatory compliance inquiries from member credit unions and state leagues regarding both new requirements and ongoing compliance issues. Monitor discussion threads in Americas Credit Unions Compliance Community and post responses as necessary.
• In coordination with Americas Credit Unions Communications work with staff to draft articles to highlight regulatory compliance developments and promote Americas Credit Unions work.
• May be designated as a deeper subject matter expert on one or more assigned compliance topic areas and will take a lead role in those disciplines tracking and reporting on all developments and monitoring all legislative and regulatory developments.
• Develop update or otherwise procure content involving new compliance developments updates applications or clarifications. Procurement formats to include (though not limited to): questions/FAQs summaries and briefs compliance alerts blog posts compliance review tools within the CU CMS CPD Online courses white papers case studies presentations recordings guides articles etc. for use and application across all the compliance delivery platforms from the CU CMS Compliance Community to Americas Credit Unions Compliance Blog among other delivery vehicles.
• Write final analyses of all new federal regulations impacting compliance and update and maintain current compliance artifacts. Proactively engage with the broader compliance team in fulfilling operating procedures and timelines to issue these updates across various channels.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues across the organization to work on a variety of long-term projects to strengthen the content and delivery of compliance education and training from both a regulatory and operational perspective. These products include but are not limited to incorporating a consultative component into regulatory compliance addressing how to best establish a total compliance solution to address not only Federal laws and regulations but also state-specific content etc.