Lead Compliance Analyst

1 day, 20 hours ago
Full-time
Lead
Legal
Wave

Wave

Wave is a small business software company that offers a suite of money management tools including invoicing, accounting, credit card processing, payroll, receipt scanning, and personal finance tools. With 2.5 million customers worldwide, Wave provides ...

Internet Software & Services
201-500
Founded 2010
$80M raised

Description

  • Build and maintain a regulatory inventory covering applicable rules, jurisdictions, obligation owners, and compliance evidence.
  • Design and maintain compliance policies, procedures, governance, approval processes, and review cadences.
  • Lead regulatory and product compliance risk assessments across Payments, Payroll, Invoicing, Accounting, Advisors, and Partnerships.
  • Manage compliance issues and remediation tracking, ensuring findings have clear owners, deadlines, and progress visibility.
  • Monitor US and Canadian regulatory changes, assess their impact, and coordinate required actions.
  • Maintain registration and licensing calendars to ensure timely renewals and filings.
  • Operate product compliance reviews, including intake triage, launch conditions, and approval or decline decisions.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Risk on high-risk launches, including payment flows, onboarding, data sharing, and expansion into new jurisdictions.
  • Oversee compliance obligations, due diligence, audits, attestations, and data-sharing practices for processors and partners.
  • Produce leadership reporting on KPIs, open issues, and emerging risks, and identify opportunities to automate manual compliance work.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of regulatory or product compliance experience at a fintech, payments company, PSP, bank, or other regulated financial services firm.
  • Experience building a compliance program component from scratch, such as policies, risk assessments, regulatory inventories, or issue management.
  • Working knowledge of payments regulation and card network rules.
  • Experience with US money movement requirements, including NACHA/ACH, Reg E, or UDAAP, or Canadian payments requirements, including RPAA, FINTRAC, or PIPEDA.
  • Experience working with product and engineering teams to review features before launch.
  • Ability to translate regulations into clear, buildable requirements for engineering teams.
  • Ability to work effectively amid ambiguity and shifting priorities in an integration environment.
  • US and Canadian regulatory experience (preferred).
  • Experience with privacy programs, including PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, or CCPA, or exposure to PCI DSS, SOX, or HIPAA controls (preferred).
  • Payroll, tax, small-business fintech, partner or processor oversight, regulatory exam, people leadership, mentoring, or relevant CRCM, CAMS, or CAMLO training experience (preferred).

Benefits

  • Inclusive and accessible recruitment process with accommodations available upon request.
  • Work environment designed to support flexibility, connection, and access to needed resources.

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