Director of Compliance Services

Vertex Education

Job Location:

Chandler, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 15 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Be the one who makes a difference!

At Vertex Education we are a team of high achievers courageous leaders and passionate believers in changing lives through education. As a purpose-led education services provider our mission is destined to benefit many and yet it starts with just one person inspired to work together with us to make a memorable and meaningful difference for our clients schools students and communities. Be the one who makes a differencewith us.

Vertex is seeking a Director of Compliance Services to architect and launch a centralized national compliance service for our school clients. This roleis responsible fortransforming a fragmented and inefficient compliance function into a centralized standardized and scalable system that ensurestimelyaccuratereporting for our clients acrossjurisdictions.

Your mission is to design and implement a well-documented repeatable operational playbook thateliminatesbottlenecks enables proactive risk management and allows our teams toexecuteconsistency and confidence. With a strong systems-builder mindset you will prioritize process standardization over bespoke solutionsleveragingERP reporting and project management technology platforms to deliver immediate value.

Ultimately youwill build a profitable efficient and scalable compliance service lineone that directly supports our mission of changing lives through education by helping schoolsoperatewith excellence.

Responsibilities / Essential Functions:

1. Service Architecture & Process Standardization:

Analyze existing compliance activities across Vertexs regions and client portfolios toidentifypatterns and opportunities for a single repeatable national process.
Design document andmaintaindefinitive Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for client compliance reporting.
Build and manage compliance and project management templates and collaboration models to ensure consistent execution and visibility across regions.
Develop and deliver training materials to enable consistent adoption of standardized workflows.
Partner with the Technology team to define data requirements reporting needs and system integrations that support compliance workflows across ERP project management and collaboration platforms.

2. National Framework & Service Line Leadership:

Define and execute a multi-year strategy for the national compliance service line including standardized offerings and pricing.
Evaluate non-standard compliance requests andestablishclear scoping and pricing for out-of-scope work.
Lead expansion into new states by developing state-specific addendums to the national framework.
Enable service line growth through collaboration with regional heads school finance professionals and school partnerships teams.
Lead the service line to achieve profitability targets by managing its budget and applying continuous process improvement principles.

3. Operations & Team Enablement:

Oversee execution of compliance work to ensure consistent use of standardized processes and technology.
Act as the escalation point and crisis manager for compliance breaches leadingremediationand client communication.
Establish communication cadences role clarity and accountability across cross-functional teams.
Create a continuous improvement loop to refine workflows documentation and tools.
Partner with Technology toidentifyautomation opportunities refine system configurations and ensure compliance platforms evolve with the serviceline.

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

Required Qualifications:

BachelorsDegree in Business Finance Public Administration orarelatedfield.
Demonstrated ability to standardize complex multi-entityor multi-jurisdictionprocesses into a repeatable scalable operating model.
Strong systems and operations orientation with the ability to translate ambiguous fragmented work into structured processes clear ownership and documented SOPs.
Experienceoperatingin client-facing environments including scoping work managing expectations and making tradeoffs between standardization and customization.
People leadership experience with the ability to build develop and align teams around new ways of working.
Strong working knowledge of compliance or regulated reporting environments with the ability to ask the right questionsidentifyrisk and design processes that ensure accuracy and timeliness.
Proven ability to lead complex system implementations or service-line buildouts from concept through execution.
Ability to translate operational needs into clear technology requirements and drive results in partnership with IT using existing platforms (e.g. ERP project management and collaborationtools).

Preferred Qualifications:

MastersDegree in Business Finance Public Administration or a related field.
Experience in K12 education charter schools or school finance particularly in environments with state-specific compliance and reporting requirements.
Experience with California charter school compliance requirements and reporting frameworks.
Familiarity with key funding and reporting structures such as Title programs and state budget processes.
Experience building or managing external-facing professional services and contributing to the commercial performance of a service or program (e.g. scoping pricing margin management or resource planning).
Proficiencywith Microsoft 365 (SharePoint Teams) and workflow tools (e.g. Asana) with working familiarity with ERP orfinancial managementsystems used to support compliance reporting and operational workflows.

Location:

Preferred hybrid work locations include Chandler AZ; Glenside PA; and Albuquerque NM with regular in-office presence expected

Be excited to be a part of our team and grow your career with us!

Be the one who enables us to positively impact over 258000 students across multiple states while driving our growth forward so we can enrich even more lives. Be the one who helps us achieve excellence for over 226 schools that we support with academics finance technology human resources communications marketing facilities construction and food services. Be the one who is a diverse thinker a team player a smart risk taker an innovator and a difference maker by encouraging others to climb higher and reach farther to further education.

Be yourself surrounded by wonderful people who care about you value your unique skills and lift you up.
Be supported in your work by caring leaders and team members who want you to succeed.
Be empowered to make a difference and climb higher and reach farther to change lives through education.
Be well in all aspects of your life from your physical mental and emotional wellbeing to your finances.
Enjoy industry-leading pay rewards referral bonuses with unlimited flexible paid time-off for performance.
Be able to care for your health and your family with comprehensive medical dental and vision benefits and invest in your future with 401(k) plans with a 6% employer match on your contributions.
Enhance your growth and development with mentoring and money to take training classes.
Thrive in a welcoming supportive and inclusive environment where we treat others with fairness and respect celebrate diversity and elevate equality and inclusion as an equal opportunity employer.

Be the one who makes a difference!

With an innovative mind a hungry heart and engaging spirit you can change lives through education. Be a part of Vertex Education and lets make a difference together. Apply Today!

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Be the one who makes a difference!At Vertex Education we are a team of high achievers courageous leaders and passionate believers in changing lives through education. As a purpose-led education services provider our mission is destined to benefit many and yet it starts with just one person inspired ...