What does a successful Vice President, Head of Embedded Finance Compliance do?
As Vice President, Head of Embedded Finance Compliance at Fiserv, you will lead regulatory compliance oversight across Fiserv’s evolving embedded finance and digital asset suite of solutions. This role requires deep expertise in financial services regulation, emerging fintech compliance frameworks, and digital asset regulatory landscapes. The successful candidate will help proactively identify evolving compliance risks associated with this dynamic product area and partner to develop appropriate compliance risk mitigation controls. You should have a great understanding of evolving technology, global regulatory landscapes, and market dynamics to effectively navigate uncertainties and prudently enable strategic growth opportunities.
What you will do:
- Partner closely with business stakeholders during the product development lifecycle to identify and assess compliance risks related to embedded finance products. In scope risk areas may include financial crimes, consumer protection, data privacy, and other emerging compliance risks across diverse partnership models and jurisdictions.
- Develop and implement required compliance controls and risk mitigation strategies tailored as needed to support evolving product suite. Must employ a solutions-focused mindset to design and prioritize appropriate mitigants and issue remediation in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Work closely with partners across the enterprise including other risk domains and business units, as well as clients’ risk and implementation teams, to identify and resolve potential risk items timely and drive collaborative problem resolution.
- Design and maintain monitoring routines and governance reporting to identify trending and risk insights, monitor issue remediation and ongoing risk profiles, and provide executive level reporting and escalation
- Monitor the effectiveness of risk strategies and adapt processes as warranted to address emerging risks, technological changes, portfolio shifts, efficiency opportunities, and partner feedback for optimized risk management performance.
What you will need to have:
- 10 years’ experience in financial services compliance role implementing and maintaining compliance oversight routines, including those specific to integrated payments and digital asset solutions.
- 10+ years’ experience in strategic planning and enablement in close collaboration with business development partners.
- Cross-functional regulatory expertise and experience across compliance disciplines (e.g., financial crimes, consumer protection, data privacy)
- Leadership experience including executive stakeholder communication and reporting.
- Bachelor's degree.
What would be great to have:
- Experience overseeing multinational and cross-border product sets.
- Experience overseeing complex payments solutions and bank service partnerships.
- Experience leading compliance program management services.
- Experience with technology and project management.
- JD or Masters degree.
Important information about this role:
- This role is on-site Monday through Friday. Fiserv considers in-person collaboration to be an essential part of this role as in-person office experiences help you with your overall onboarding experience and leads to stronger productivity.
- In order to be considered, you must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without need for sponsorship, now or in the future.
- This is a full-time, direct-hire position, and no contract options for unsolicited agency submissions will be considered.
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