Sun Life compliance director overseeing CIRO trade supervision and risk - based monitoring across mutual fund and securities businesses. Leading regulatory oversight, transformation, reporting, and a high - performing compliance team.
About the role
- Director of Compliance building Relay’s digital banking compliance program for small businesses. Leading AML, financial-crime operations, sponsor-bank partnerships, and compliance automation.
Responsibilities
- Build and own Relay's compliance program across AML, sanctions, KYB/CDD, and regulatory compliance
- Establish policies, procedures, risk assessments, and controls across products and payment rails
- Govern investigations, suspicious activity reporting, escalations, issue management, and remediation
- Own the sponsor-bank relationship, including exam and audit readiness, issue resolution, product approvals, and management reporting
- Design monitoring, testing, and reporting infrastructure to demonstrate control effectiveness with data
- Set financial-crimes strategy for transaction monitoring, investigations, and suspicious activity reporting
- Implement continuous KYB and customer re-verification covering ownership, entity status, industry changes, and adverse media
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Operations to embed compliance into product design
- Track regulatory changes and translate them into control and roadmap updates
- Hire, coach, and develop the Compliance team across strategy and operations
- Apply AI and automation to scale compliance operations
- Run risk and customer-friction scorecards
- Report program health, emerging risks, and remediation to senior management and the board
- Participate in a five-stage interview process including video interviews, a take-home case study, and an in-person executive interview
Requirements
- 8+ years of compliance experience in fintech, banking, or payments
- Experience leading a compliance function or major compliance pillar
- Experience building compliance programs, policies, and control frameworks from the ground up
- Personal accountability for program effectiveness and regulatory scrutiny readiness
- Direct experience managing a sponsor bank, regulator, or examiner relationship
- Ability to define metrics and demonstrate control effectiveness with data
- Technical fluency with monitoring systems, decisioning platforms, and data pipelines
- Experience hiring, coaching, and growing compliance talent
- Strong communication skills across board, banking, engineering, and product contexts
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
- Active use of AI tools
- Bonus: experience with charter applications, second sponsor bank diligence, or banking-as-a-service program structuring
- Bonus: familiarity with Unit21, Sardine, Alloy, Middesk, Hawk, or similar tooling
- Bonus: experience across deposits, cards, ACH, RDC, acquiring, or credit
- Bonus: experience in an early-stage company through scale
- Bonus: experience in a fintech startup or scale-up
- Legally authorized to work in Canada
- Successful background check and employment verification required
Benefits
- Compensation changes are not limited to a once-a-year review cycle
- Accommodation support at any stage of the hiring process
- AI-enabled tools and a highly autonomous work environment
- Opportunities to build and lead a team
- Diverse and inclusive workplace
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