Director of Compliance - Mayfair
San Mateo, CA
About the Job
Mayfair is hiring a Director of Compliance to help us ensure security and confidentiality in our operations. You'll help guarantee compliance with all relevant legal requirements as we expand into new countries and partner with a variety of platforms to bring value to customers. The ideal candidate is precise, analytical, and detail-obsessed when it comes to reviewing government sources, building internal best practices, and monitoring our organization's adherence to them.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Evaluating government requirements and assessing changes or additions to them in countries in which we operate
- Creating and maintaining internal governing documents for compliance with various security auditing measures, including SOC 2, ISO 27001:2022, and GDPR
- Maintaining and updating training materials to reinforce teammates's adherence to governing requirements and internal procedures
- Implementing and administering the system(s) necessary to measure performance against requirements
- Establishing and monitoring performance metrics and/or Key Risk Indicators ("KRIs") for potential risks or issues, performing further analysis or testing as needed
- Escalating and monitoring status of issues, as identified
- Actively investigating and implementing tools that would make compliance easier/more streamlined within our organization
- Working closely with external partners to maintain compliance in specific countries or industries where 3rd-party expertise is required
You may be a good fit if you:
- Have 5+ years of industry experience in banking or financial products
- Have proficient experience implementing security measures in banking or financial organizations
- Have a strong product sense
- Have a good understanding of how much process is the right amount, and a deep conviction to automate everything and anything
- Have a tendency to look at things and see how they can be done better. You're the sort who obsessively keeps digging until you find the best way to do something, not just the good enough way
- Have exceptional organizational skills, including organizing and directing your team, and prioritizing resource allocation
- Have a reputation as the most organized and detail-oriented person in your peer group
- Have a fantastic communication skills: concise and precise, with the ability to put yourself in the other person's shoes and realize how you need to explain a concept for it to make sense to that person
Join the Mayfair team
You'll be on a team of experienced, multi-time founders, whose previous companies were backed by Y Combinator, Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, and Softbank. We pay competitively and offer medical, dental, vision, and paid vacation. If you're passionate about fintech we'd love to hear from you!
All Mayfair employees enjoy:
- Competitive pay (including access to performance-based bonuses, when applicable)
- 100% coverage of individual benefits and up to 50% of family benefits
- Unlimited PTO and all federal holidays observed
We've listed these traits here to help you identify if you're a good fit for this job. Even if your resume might not match these requirements exactly, we encourage you to apply if you're passionate about finance and love working with clever folks.
Mayfair is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of one's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.