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CheckAlt · 5 months ago

Program Director, Risk and Compliance

Minneapolis, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Miami

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

CheckAlt is a company specializing in optimizing payment processing for financial institutions and businesses. They are seeking a Risk & Compliance Program Manager to enhance their risk infrastructure, ensure compliance with regulations, and support various teams in the fintech and banking sectors.

FinancePayments

Responsibilities

Maintain the enterprise risk register and track risk acceptances, mitigations, and committee follow-through

Drive corrective action plans, issue management, and regulatory control testing

Own compliance across FinCEN, Nacha, PCI, SOC, and more

Lead our Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) cadence

Execute client onboarding risk reviews, questionnaires, and contractual risk checkpoints

Track ACH limits, onboarding conditions, and client-specific monitoring obligations

Standardize responses to client RFIs and due diligence requests across banking and enterprise clients

Partner with Security to document and improve access control governance and periodic reviews

Monitor and translate changes in BSA/AML, Nacha, OCC, FFIEC, and GLBA guidance into clear internal actions

Ensure policies, procedures, and communications reflect current regulatory and client commitments

Embed risk assessments, approval thresholds, and exception logging into product development and onboarding workflows

Maintain risk approval logs for deviations, escalations, and risk acceptances

Help align legal, product, and ops teams around consistent decision-making frameworks

Lead audit prep for SOC 2, PCI DSS, and client reviews with centralized documentation and process oversight

Manage internal readiness for risk committee, compliance testing, and remediation cycles

Improve vendor risk lifecycle by embedding control checks into procurement and performance oversight

Own KRIs, risk dashboards, and reporting for executive and board committees

Partner with SalesOps and Legal to embed risk checkpoints into Salesforce and contract workflows

Build scalable, repeatable systems that support growth without reinventing the wheel

Qualification

Risk ManagementCompliance FrameworksAudit PreparationClient Due DiligenceRegulatory KnowledgePower BISalesforceSystems ThinkingCollaborationResults-oriented