Federal Regulatory Compliance Counsel

• Washington
• Hybrid
• Yearly salary: $140,000 - $150,000

America’s Credit Unions is a leading company in the Financial Services Trade Association sector, known for our advocacy on behalf of all Credit Unions. We fuel our employee’s professional growth at every level, stand committed to the financial well-being of every member and champion the credit union story at every turn.

We are seeking a highly organized and experienced Federal Regulatory Compliance Counsel to play an instrumental role in achieving important parts of America’s Credit Unions strategic plan to foster service excellence by providing trustworthy timely best-in-class compliance assistance, information, education and training, to remove barriers by persuading federal agencies to address implementation and operational issues with federal regulations, and to create awareness of America’s Credit Unions value proposition by disseminating information written in plain English. This position is a Hybrid role based in Washington, DC.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Compliance Expert representative for America’s Credit Unions
• Working cross-functionally across all of America’s Credit Unions departments to represent America’s Credit Unions in the capacity of compliance counsel.
• Partner with other Advocacy teams to identify compliance problems impacting credit union operations and suggest regulatory and legislative solutions.
• Partner with Association Services to support America’s Credit Unions’ compliance learning events, and provide timely recommendations for curriculum changes and regulatory updates for the organization’s various schools, conferences, webinars, and certification programs.
• Partner with Membership and Engagement to develop content and compliance assistance materials on certain topics based on engagement, trends, and questions from members throughout technology, Councils, outreach, and education interactions.
• Speak at credit union organization events and other credit union-organizations’ compliance programs, and further represent America’s Credit Unions at compliance roundtables and similar events.
• Actively engage with credit unions via the compliance in-box. Respond to federal regulatory compliance inquiries from member credit unions and state leagues regarding both new requirements and ongoing compliance issues. Monitor discussion threads in America’s Credit Unions’ Compliance Community and post responses, as necessary.
• In coordination with America’s Credit Unions’ Communications, work with staff to draft articles to highlight regulatory compliance developments and promote America’s Credit Unions’ work.
• May be designated as a deeper subject matter expert on one or more assigned compliance topic areas and will take a lead role in those disciplines, tracking and reporting on all developments and monitoring all legislative and regulatory developments.
• Develop, update, or otherwise procure content involving new compliance developments, updates, applications, or clarifications. Procurement formats to include (though not limited to): questions/FAQ’s, summaries and briefs, compliance alerts, blog posts, compliance review tools within the CU CMS, CPD Online courses, white papers, case studies, presentations, recordings, guides, articles, etc. for use and application across all the compliance delivery platforms from the CU CMS, Compliance Community, to America’s Credit Unions’ Compliance Blog, among other delivery vehicles.
• Write final analyses of all new federal regulations impacting compliance, and update and maintain current compliance artifacts. Proactively engage with the broader compliance team in fulfilling operating procedures and timelines to issue these updates across various channels.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues across the organization to work on a variety of long-term projects to strengthen the content and delivery of compliance education and training from both a regulatory and operational perspective. These products include, but are not limited to incorporating a consultative component into regulatory compliance, addressing how to best establish a total compliance solution to address not only Federal laws and regulations, but also state-specific content, etc.