Senior Compliance Assurance & Testing Manager

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time.   Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). Today nearly 8 out of 10 Americans use a product powered by Marqeta every week. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

Marqeta’s  Senior Compliance Assurance and Testing Manager, is a key management position within Marqeta’s Compliance department. The successful candidate is an experienced, motivated, and detail-oriented individual who can craft compelling narratives for Marqeta’s compliance assurance programs, understand the regulatory requirements across multiple products and jurisdictions, and work with control owners to monitor and test compliance with regulatory, contractual and network requirements.  You will be responsible for assessing the effectiveness of highly complex controls that help ensure ongoing compliance with key laws, regulations and policies affecting Marqeta, its partner banks, and its customers. 

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the United States or from our Oakland, CA office. We’d love for you to join us!

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain an annual testing plan for the range of Marqeta products and services, including Payments, Lending, and Deposits
• Collaborate with the Chief Compliance Officer and provide strategic advice for compliance assurance
• Develop assurance approaches corresponding to scope of the targeted testing of controls
• Collaborate with the first line of defense to develop remediation plans to resolve control weaknesses identified through testing
• Track and validate the implementation of remedial actions submitted by the remedial actions owners to verify that issues were remediated
• Prepare review reports for Management that highlights the scope, testing approach, and the results of the review
• Promote proactive identification of regulatory risks and continuously improve execution of the testing plan
• Ensure the quality of work delivered by the testing team and timely escalation of issues encountered during the course of testing to the first line of defense and Senior Management
• Consistently monitor and assess external industry trends and regulatory environment to help shape Marqeta’s compliance assurance and testing program
• Proactively and continually assess …