Director - Compliance

Description & Requirements

Maximus is looking to add a Compliance Director to elaborate and structure our compliance management team on the Aidvantage program in alignment with USDS contractual requirements.

The position will closely coordinate with internal legal counsel on compliance items, coordinate regulatory examinations, and coordinate with Aidvantage departments on compliance adherence.

The Compliance Director will ensure the proper operational and maintenance of the company's student loan servicing Compliance Program.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Ensure organization functions are in compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and policies.
- Responsible for implementation of compliance audits.
- Manage compliance risk identification, inspection and reporting.
- Direct and control the activities of a broad functional area through several department managers within the company.
- Have overall control of planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods.
- Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the organization.
- Participate in the organization's development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people.
- Ensure budgets and schedules meet the organization's requirements.
- Regularly interact with executives and/or major customers.

Interactions frequently involve special skills, such as negotiating with customers or management, or attempting to influence senior-level leaders regarding matters of significance to the organization.
- Monitor performance of subordinates according to established monitoring standards; conduct performance appraisals, make decisions on personnel actions including hiring, firing, and disciplinary action.
- Reports to Senior Director or VP level.

- Ensure policies and procedures and maintained and modified to remain current and complete and to serve as a reference for employees in their day-to-day activities.

- Provide guidance to operations to ensure that compliance procedures are embedded in automated tools and business unit procedures.

- Oversee compliance issue tracking over the full life cycle of identified issues, including ensuring that root cause is identified, remediation is conducted in a timely manner, and systemic and manual controls, as necessary, are implemented to prevent

the issue from recurring.

- Develop and implement compliance monitoring of servicing procedures, information systems, and internal controls to identify and prevent compliance weaknesses.

- Collaborate with executive and operational management to ensure operational compliance when procedural changes are implemented, including analysis of change request to ensure that all compliance requirements are identified, tracked, and

implemented.

- Assist with regulatory response, including regulatory audit management for state and federal examinations.

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