Compliance Lead, Fair Lending

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

Affirm’s Compliance team designs and implements a compliance program that enables Affirm to proactively adhere to regulatory requirements while also identifying and addressing potential regulatory issues that may arise. Compliance program activities include advisory, guidance & training, independent testing & monitoring, reporting, escalation, and oversight. As the second line of defense, compliance proactively partners with the business to support new products, markets, and initiatives, change management, issue identification, and remediation plans, assessment and monitoring of third parties, and provides trends and data to enable informed decision making, strengthen controls or provide for better treatment of consumers.

Affirm is seeking a Compliance Lead who will support efforts to mature the company’s Fair Lending Program. This position plays a fundamental role by delivering key results and providing subject matter expertise on regulatory requirements. In this capacity, the Compliance Lead will collaborate with Legal, Product, Credit, Applied Machine Learning, Engineering and senior leadership to identify and assess fair lending risk within applicable requirements, and provide guidance to mitigate risk. Remotely, the role will report to the Senior Compliance Manager of Fair Lending and will work cross-functionally with other teams.

What You’ll Do

• Work closely with cross functional partners to support the ongoing maturation of aspects of the Fair Lending Program (e.g. advisory frameworks, risk assessment, testing, governance).

• Provide Fair Lending advice and possess the ability to communicate complex regulatory expectations for Fair Lending matters throughout the product life-cycle and across all products and services. 

• Assist in documenting critical processes, support the maintenance of internal team sites, and support the Compliance team in maintaining relevant policies, risk assessments, training materials, issues management and other related items. 

• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure transparency into compliance risks impacting key initiatives, company growth or Bank partners.

• Build relationships with business and functional partners.

What We Look For

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of professional work experience in Compliance Risk, Audit, or Bank Regulatory.

• Excellent organizational and relationship skills.

• A strong interest in fintech and consumer finance.

• Experience working with consumer financial …