Compliance Associate

World Business Lenders (WBL) is a privately held portfolio lender specializing in real estate-secured business loans for underserved businesses. Operating with a fully remote, multinational workforce and guided by an experienced executive leadership team, WBL offers a dynamic and collaborative work environment. The typical work schedule is Monday through Friday, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Eastern Time, with occasional additional hours as business needs dictate.

Key Responsibilities

- Compliance Monitoring and Testing: Perform scheduled monitoring and testing of lending, servicing, disclosure, licensing, and corporate compliance controls according to approved procedures. This includes selecting samples, reviewing records, documenting results, and retaining sufficient evidence to support conclusions. Identify exceptions, assess patterns, and escalate potentially material or repeated issues to the Team Lead. Support quality-assurance reviews and validate the completion of agreed corrective actions.

- Policies, Procedures, and Training: Maintain the inventory, review schedule, approval history, and published versions of compliance policies and procedures. Coordinate periodic updates with process owners and ensure required approvals and distribution are completed. Support compliance training administration, including assignments, attendance tracking, attestations, completion monitoring, and follow-up. Prepare practical checklists, job aids, communications, and reference materials based on approved guidance.

- Issue and Remediation Management: Enter findings, risks, owners, due dates, and corrective actions into the issue-management process. Follow up with action owners, review supporting evidence, and maintain accurate status records. Assist with root-cause analysis, trend reporting, and identification of recurring control weaknesses. Maintain audit-ready documentation for both open and closed compliance issues.

- Reporting and Business Support: Prepare routine dashboards and reports on monitoring activities, training, policy reviews, findings, and remediation efforts. Respond to documentation requests from Legal, Internal Audit, Operations, and other authorized stakeholders. Support compliance reviews of operational changes by gathering information and comparing practices to approved requirements. Recommend practical workflow and documentation improvements based on testing results and recurring questions.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in compliance, finance, business, accounting, legal studies, or a related field. Equivalent relevant experience may also be considered.

- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in compliance, quality assurance, risk, audit, lending operations, servicing, or another controlled environment.

- Experience performing sample-based reviews, documenting findings, maintaining evidence, and tracking corrective actions.

- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, proficiency in documentation, spreadsheet use, and effective deadline management.

- Familiarity with regulated financial-services processes is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

- Background in financial services, commercial lending, private lending, banking, fintech, specialty finance, mortgage lending, or other highly regulated industries is advantageous.

- Technical skills including compliance monitoring, testing, sampling, workpaper documentation, policy and training administration, issue logging, remediation tracking, and evidence validation.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and compliance or workflow-management systems.

- Key competencies such as objectivity, professional skepticism, clear communication, organization, and accountability.

- Remote work requirements include a stable and reliable internet connection, a professional remote working setup, and the ability to work effectively across a multinational organization while maintaining confidentiality.

Benefits

WBL offers competitive compensation paid in USD and provides paid time off (PTO). The position supports a fully remote work environment, allowing flexibility and work-life balance.

If you are detail-oriented, proactive, and eager to contribute to a growing compliance program within a remote-first company, this opportunity at WBL could be the right fit for you.