VP Compliance Strategy & Process Automation

bancorpbank
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📍 Sioux Falls, SD, USFULL TIME

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Overview

Work Arrangement: 

***This position is available as a hybrid position in our Wilmington, DE or Sioux Falls, SD office.*** 

 

The Vice President, Compliance Strategy & Process Automation is a senior individual contributor responsible for architecting and executing The Bancorp’s enterprise compliance transformation strategy. This role serves as the principal designer of compliance operating model optimization, regulatory traceability, control automation, and data-driven risk monitoring across the Bank’s lending, payments, fintech partnership, and deposit verticals. Given The Bancorp’s sponsor bank structure and embedded fintech relationships, this role ensures that regulatory obligations (FDIC, CFPB, FinCEN, OCC guidance as applicable, state regulators) are translated into scalable controls, automated workflows, and real-time monitoring capabilities across first- and second-line functions. This is not a people-management role. It is a strategic execution role requiring deep regulatory fluency, systems thinking, and the ability to drive cross-functional change across Compliance, Risk, Technology, Operations, and Fintech Partnership teams.

 

At The Bancorp, we’ve spent more than 25 years driving innovation in the financial services industry. As one of the first banks to embrace fintech, we combine technology, expertise and a forward-looking approach to deliver creative, real-world solutions. We work side by side with our partners to help them grow and innovate with confidence. Across Fintech Solutions, Institutional Banking, Commercial Lending and Real Estate Bridge Lending, we provide the people, processes, technology and banking capabilities that turn bold ideas into outcomes.

 

Join a team that brings urgency and rigor to every challenge and plays a direct role in driving growth for our clients and the communities we serve.

Key Responsibilities

  • Designs and executes a multi-year Compliance Strategy & Automation roadmap aligned with Bancorp’s growth in payments, lending, and fintech sponsorship.
  • Builds and operationalizes a scalable compliance architecture that supports the sponsor bank model, including standardized control taxonomies, compliance libraries, and alignment to the enterprise risk framework and risk appetite.
  • Establishes and maintains end-to-end regulatory traceability from regulation → risk → policy → control → monitoring → testing → evidence repository.
  • Develops and automates regulatory change management processes, including obligation mapping, impact analysis, inventory governance, and formal ownership/attestation protocols.
  • Designs and implements scalable fintech oversight frameworks, including regulatory obligation mapping, control inventories, automated monitoring, performance dashboards, and structured data-sharing protocols.
  • Integrates compliance automation into third-party risk management lifecycle processes, ensuring regulatory expectations related to BSA/AML, consumer protection, model risk, and third-party oversight are operationalized through system-based reporting.
  • Leads implementation, optimization, and governance of GRC and compliance technology platforms, reducing reliance on manual and spreadsheet-based tracking.
  • Identifies and executes automation initiatives across compliance processes, including control testing, issue management, complaint oversight, transaction monitoring QA, and product/marketing reviews, leveraging workflow tools, RPA, and AI-enabled surveillance where appropriate.
  • Develops executive and board-level compliance reporting frameworks, including dashboards, KRIs, KPIs, and risk analytics related to fintech partner risk, BSA performance, consumer compliance, and issue management.
  • Enhances second-line monitoring through data-driven methodologies, including analytics-based testing, exception reporting, and real-time compliance visibility.
  • Strengthens regulatory examination readiness and defensibility, including centralized evidence repositories, structured documentation, automated exam response processes, and version control discipline.
  • Conducts post-examination and program maturity analyses to identify root causes, control gaps, and automation-driven process redesign opportunities.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
  • No travel required.

    • Qualification Requirements

    Education/Experience Requirements

    • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Risk Management, Information Systems, Business-related field or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
    • 10+ years of experience in banking compliance, regulatory risk, or GRC transformation.
    • Demonstrated experience within:
      • FDIC-regulated bank or sponsor bank model.
      • Fintech partnership oversight and third-party compliance governance.
    • Strong working knowledge of:
      • Consumer compliance (UDAAP, Reg E, Reg Z, Reg DD, etc.)
      • Fair lending principles
      • Third-party risk management expectations
    • Experience implementing or optimizing GRC platforms and compliance workflow tools.
    • Proven track record of leading cross-functional transformation initiatives without direct authority.

    Preferred Qualifications

    • CRCM, CISA, or similar certification.
    • Experience with payments, prepaid, Banking as a Service (“BaaS”) and/or embedded finance models.
    • Exposure to regulatory exam management in high-growth banking environments.
    • Working knowledge of SQL, BI tools (Power BI, Tableau), or process automation technologies.
    • Systems-level strategic thinking with the ability to interpret regulatory requirements and translate them into operational processes, controls, and scalable solutions.
    • Executive-level communication with strong analytical rigor and data fluency; ability to influence without authority and lead change within regulated environments.

    Additional Information

    This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of five days from the date it was posted.

      

    Working at The Bancorp Bank, N.A. and Benefits Information: https://thebancorp.com/company/join-our-team/

    Company Culture & Background Screening

    Company Culture at The Bancorp Bank: https://www.thebancorp.com/company/company-culture/

     

    The Bancorp Bank, N.A. is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, citizenship, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status or other protected category with respect to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment.

     

    Employment with The Bancorp Bank, N.A. includes successfully passing a background check including credit, criminal, education, employment, OFAC, and social media background history.

     

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