The Compliance Specialist supports Alkami's compliance management activities by maintaining the documentation, tracking, evidence, and control-validation materials needed for regulatory, audit, policy, and client-facing work. This role applies established procedures to recurring compliance activities while developing knowledge of regulatory, legal, contractual, information-security, and technology-control expectations within a financial services technology environment. The position collaborates with internal stakeholders to organize compliance information, support reviews, and help ensure requirements and follow-up actions are documented accurately. Focus areas may include regulatory monitoring, regulatory change support, audit readiness, policy governance, accessibility, and AI governance compliance.
Key Responsibilities & Duties:- Support recurring compliance monitoring activities by gathering source materials, organizing updates, maintaining trackers, and preparing control-validation evidence under established procedures.
- Document regulatory developments, business impacts, action items, and validation evidence by using approved templates and guidance.
- Assist with regulatory, SOC, PCI, and other audit preparation by coordinating evidence collection, organizing documentation, and tracking open requests.
- Maintain policies, procedures, controls, and related compliance records by updating approved GRC platforms and document repositories.
- Support periodic control-validation activities by collecting evidence, documenting results, and escalating identified gaps to experienced team members.
- Build product knowledge across Alkami solutions by reviewing product documentation, attending stakeholder discussions, and connecting product capabilities to compliance requirements.
- Triage routine internal and client requests related to compliance, risk, governance, information security, privacy, resilience, and third-party oversight by gathering inputs and routing questions to appropriate subject-matter experts.
- Draft initial compliance responses and status updates by compiling approved information and presenting it in a clear, accurate, and review-ready format.
- Support incident-related compliance activities by organizing facts, requests, documentation, decisions, and follow-up actions when regulatory, security, privacy, resilience, or vendor-risk considerations apply.
- Monitor assigned compliance tasks and remediation items by maintaining due dates, following up with stakeholders, and escalating delays or unresolved issues.
- Apply information-security and technology-control concepts by supporting evidence related to access management, logging, monitoring, cloud-hosted environments, and other control areas.
- Use AI-enabled tools appropriately by following governance requirements, validating outputs, and protecting confidential or regulated information.
Qualifications:- 2 years plus of experience in compliance, audit, regulatory interpretation and support, policy governance, financial services, fintech, information security, or a related field.
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, legal studies, information systems, risk management, or a related field, and equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to organize documentation, maintain accurate records, and support repeatable compliance processes with consistency.
- Working knowledge of compliance, audit, policy governance, or control-validation practices.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills for preparing documentation and coordinating with stakeholders.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to identify missing, inconsistent, or incomplete information.
- Ability to exercise judgment within established procedures and escalate questions or risks appropriately.
- Proficiency with productivity, collaboration, and structured tracking tools.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments, deadlines, and follow-up actions in a regulated environment.
Desired Skills:- Prior experience in interpretation and application of consumer protection laws, including privacy.
- Familiarity with banking, fintech, SaaS, or regulated technology environments.
- Exposure to GRC tools, audit-management platforms, or structured workflow systems.
- Knowledge of SOC, PCI DSS, or comparable compliance and control frameworks.
- Exposure to information-security concepts such as IAM, logging, monitoring, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- Familiarity with accessibility requirements or AI governance compliance practices.
- J.D. or degree in legal studies preferred.
The salary range for this position is: $72,000 - $90,000
Cool Things to KnowNot Just Any Company: Alkami has an awesome diverse and inclusive environment. We have a FUN culture and offer great benefits, including remote-first environment, unlimited paid time off, 401(k) with employer match, and more.
Work Authorization: We cannot offer employment sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment.
Recruiters: We are not looking for outside recruiting firms to help us in this search. Thank you for understanding.
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