Senior Compliance Associate, Governance

Company: Chime
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: March 21, 2025

Job Description:

Chime is seeking a Senior Compliance Associate, Governance to join the Compliance team. In this role, you will play a key role in formalizing Chime's compliance program, overseeing regulatory change processes, managing policy administration, maintaining a controls repository, and ensuring compliance training effectiveness. Additionally, you will track and report on key metrics to help senior management monitor compliance health. This role requires a proactive, detail-oriented professional with strong regulatory knowledge and excellent cross-functional collaboration skills.The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $103,680 and up to $144,000. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.In this role, you can expect to

• Establish and manage Chime's compliance change management program, tracking regulatory developments and ensuring structured execution of necessary updates.
• Maintain a centralized repository for tracking regulatory changes, risk assessments, and implementation status.
• Oversee the Compliance controls repository, ensuring controls are mapped to applicable regulations and risks.
• Maintain policy governance, including version control, approvals, and organization-wide dissemination.
• Monitor and report on Compliance KPIs and KRIs to provide visibility into regulatory change management effectiveness.
• Prepare dashboards and reports summarizing regulatory changes, policy updates, control effectiveness, and training progress for senior leadership.
• Develop and manage compliance training programs to ensure employees are educated of regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Track training completion rates, effectiveness, and engagement while driving compliance culture initiatives.
• Supporting, monitoring and executing on the Ethics program.To thrive in this role, you have
  • 5+ years of experience in regulatory change management, compliance governance, risk management, or financial services compliance.
  • Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks applicable to fintech and financial institutions (e.g., CFPB, OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, state banking regulations).
  • Proven experience formalizing change management programs, overseeing compliance controls repositories, and managing regulatory reporting processes.
  • Experience with data analytics and designing data lakes, warehouses, and dashboard.
  • Experience in policy administration, compliance training, and ethics program.
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess regulatory impacts and recommend compliance solutions.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, capable of translating complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable steps.
  • Experience with compliance tools, GRC platforms, training management systems, and reporting dashboards is a plus.A little about usAt Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime-a financial technology company, not a bank-on the premise that basic banking services should be helpful, transparent, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. Whether it's starting a savings account, purchasing a first car or home, launching a business, or pursuing higher education, we're proud to have helped millions unlock their financial potential.We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members. From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life. Their grit and determination inspire us to work harder every day to deliver the very best experience possible. We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our company, and our members.We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust-so we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. These aren't just words on a wall-our values are embedded in every aspect of our business, serving as a north star that guides us as we work to help millions achieve their financial potential.Because if we don't-who will?What we offer
    • A thoughtful hybrid work policy that combines in-office days and trips to team and company-wide events depending on location to ensure you stay connected to your work and teammates, whether you're local to one of our offices or remote.
    • Hybrid work perks like backup child, elder and/or pet care, as well as a subsidized commuter benefit.
    • Competitive salary based on experience.
    • 401k match plus great medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
    • Generous vacation policy and company-wide Chime Days, bonus company-wide paid days off.
    • 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice.
    • Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses.
    • Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.
    • Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.
    • In-person and virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers-think cooking classes, guided meditations, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!
    • A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress.We know that great work can't be done without a diverse team and inclusive environment. That's why we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas to join our team. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Cook County Ordinance, and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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