Compliance Jobs Report: Sept. 20
The Compliance Jobs Report this week has new hires at Stryker, Remitly, several crypto firms, and several other places. We also have a slew of promotions to note, including at Citi, BASF, Total, and elsewhere. Job leads are in insurance, media, and adults-only content; and Meme of the Week goes to scoping SOX compliance efforts.
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Compliance Jobs
Nicholas Cirulli has joined medical equipment giant Stryker as compliance officer for corporate functions. Circulli comes to Stryker from Grifols, where he spent the last two years as senior manager for North America healthcare compliance.
Patricio Roffo has joined GetYourGuide.com, a Berlin-based online marketplace for travel experiences, as head of global governance, risk, and compliance.. Roffo previously worked at Tier Mobility, another German software firm, where he was director of global risk and compliance.
Soren Lanes has joined Remitly as head of product compliance. Lanes comes to the firm (an online platform to send remittances back to the home country) from Albert, a rather plainly named fintech startup, where he had been director of financial crimes compliance.
Hebrew Senior Life, a retirement hospital and research community in Boston, has hired Erika Barber as chief compliance officer. Barber had previously been chief privacy officer of nearby Boston Medical Center for the last three years.
John McKelvie has joined Scottish financial services firm Rathbones Group as IT audit manager. McKelvie comes to Rathbones from KPMG, where he spent the last six years in various IT audit roles.
Starling Bank has hired Harry Fisher as compliance officer. Fisher comes to the bank, which is in London, after five years at fintech firm Chip, where he had been senior compliance officer.
Across the Irish Sea, Ciara Dawson has joined Goodbody, a financial services firm based in Dublin; she’ll be the internal audit lead. Dawson comes to Goodbody from FBD Insurance, where she had been assistant internal audit manager.
Bitvavo, a Dutch crypto firm doing… um, something crypto, just hired Silvia Bisi as regulatory compliance officer. Bisi previously spent five years at Ernst & Young, most recently as a manager in the firm’s regulatory and compliance practice for financial firms.
Bakkt, a U.S. crypto firm doing something else crypto, has hired Melody Loudin as director of consumer compliance. Loudin joins the company from Coinme, a digital currency exchange platform (OK, I do get that), where she had been director of regulatory affairs, examinations, and licensing.
In Paris, Quentin Brilland has joined Rothschild & Co. as compliance officer. Brilland joins the wealth management firm after several internships at French financial services firms, including Rothschild, where he interned last year.
Prelude, a maker of electronic data capture software, has hired Tien Lai as director of compliance. Lai comes to the company from Edwards Lifesciences, where she had spent a year as clinical compliance manager.
And Andrew Heineman is stepping down as chief compliance and privacy officer at Peak Health. Heineman had been with the West Virginia-based insurance firm since summer 2023. Hasn’t said what is doing next, but Heineman did say he is “honestly very excited about this next opportunity.” Stay tuned.
Promotions
Citibank has promoted Michael McMillian from vice president for senior investments risk to vice president of compliance. (Technically that’s a lateral move, but adding “compliance” to your title is always a promotion in spirit.)
Milestone Retirement Communities has promoted Chris Baker from director of risk management to vice president of compliance. Baker has been with the Oklahoma-based business since last winter.
US Capital Global, a financial services firm for mid-market enterprises, has promoted Pankaj Vashisth to chief compliance officer. Vashisth had previously been a senior executive in the firm’s broker-dealer affiliate.
Aya Healthcare has promoted Brandon Hocking from associate team lead for compliance to team lead (still for compliance). Hocking has been with the firm since 2020.
Total Energies in France has promoted Lubana Abdou-Barriere from senior compliance officer to senior integrity manager for economic sanctions and ethics officer. She has been with Total for two years.
Heike Plesse has a new role at BASF as corporate compliance officer for human rights. Plesse had previously worked on corporate HR sustainability for the firm.
Crypto.com has promoted Sercan Karapoyraz from compliance director for Eastern Europe to vice president of compliance. He is based in Istanbul.
Wells Fargo has promoted Christopher Compton from compliance specialist to senior compliance specialist.
Databricks has promoted Jessica Beane from paralegal for compliance and ethics to senior paralegal for the same.
In upstate New York, M&T Bank (“bank of the Buffalo Bills”) has promoted John Minnick from compliance consultant to senior compliance consultant. Radical Compliance remains confident that the Bills will not win it all this year.
Saudi Business Machines has promoted Faisal al-Hunitah from compliance officer to senior compliance officer.
TD Synnex has promoted Megan Crawford from senior manager of internal audit to director of internal audit.
Empower has promoted Scott Brown from compliance lead to compliance manager.
Milestones
David Berman just hit one year as chief compliance officer at Balfour Beatty Communities.
Parshva Bhavsar is celebrating one year at AbbVie as head of financial compliance.
Bella Guner is celebrating one year as director of compliance at the Bruner Center for Mental Health in Pittsfield, Mass.
Tizgel High is celebrating one year as chief compliance officer at Prime Therapeutics.
Kristina Janssens is celebrating one year as chief compliance officer at Comerica Bank.
Jeff Harwin is celebrating five years at Deutsche Bank, where he is managing director and head of anti-financial crime for the Americas.
Vendors & Service Providers
D.J. Rossini just joined Grant Thornton as managing director in the firm’s risk advisory practice. Rossini is a long-time hand at internal audit and security, previously serving at ADM and the FBI (where he built the bureau’s internal audit function).
Onspring, purveyor of GRC automation software, just released a new third-party risk management product. Read all about it on Onspring’s website.
Vault, purveyor of internal reporting and case management systems, has struck a partnership with Workday to integrate Vault’s capabilities into Workday’s HR systems.
Open Req Orders
OnlyFans, the social media site for creators of adults-only content, is hiring a legal, regulatory, and compliance analyst. The corporate side of OnlyFans keeps a rather low profile (gee, I wonder why), so we don’t know where this job would be located or the pay range; you can apply by emailing [email protected] and inquiring further. Candidates should “understand the kind of legal and compliance issues that matter to OnlyFans.”
The New York Times is looking for a senior counsel for cybersecurity, data privacy, and consumer compliance. Job is based in New York; salary range is $210,000 to $250,000.
Assurant is looking for a compliance manager for its new “connected living” division. (This is part of a larger hiring wave going on with Assurant’s ethics and compliance team.) Job can be virtual; salary range is $99,200 to $165,600.
Compliance Meme of the Week
That’s all for this week’s report.
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