Compliance Jobs Report: Feb. 14
What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than the Compliance Jobs Report? This week we have news from Walmart, Bicycle Therapeutics, Pax8, Goldman Sachs, Square, and more. Job leads are in banking, online auctions, and fintech firms; and Meme of the Week goes out law firms feeling the pressure.
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First, a Special Note
Before we get to this week’s news of people landing new jobs or promotions in the compliance field, we should note the mass layoffs of government workers that Elon Musk and Donald Trump enacted Thursday night, as well as many others pushed out of their jobs already.
That number includes investigators, government prosecutors, inspectors general, auditors, financial analysts, and many others who work every day with integrity and ethics. They didn’t deserve the shabby treatment this Administration delivers with abandon. Many of these people would be great compliance or audit professionals; please help them if you can.
This mess is likely to get worse before it gets better, both for those individuals and for the United States as a whole, but I remain confident that people who work with integrity will prevail in the long term.
OK, back to business…
Compliance Jobs
This week we begin with Walmart, where chief ethics and compliance officer Matt Miner is stepping down after three years on the job. Miner is moving to KPMG, where he will be the firm’s general counsel. (Miner also served as a senior official in the Justice Department during Trump’s first term.)
The awesomely named Bicycle Therapeutics has hired Sulaiman Qazi as chief ethics and compliance officer. Qazi comes to Bicycle, which is developing cancer treatments based on “bicycle peptides” (whatever those are), after three years as chief compliance officer at Seagen.
Pax8, a cloud computing software firm, has hired Marianne Wolf as chief ethics and compliance officer. Wolf comes to the firm (looks like she was a stealth hire in December) after five years at Splunk, where she’d also been chief ethics and compliance officer.
Adam Panella has joined the Talcott Financial Group, a life insurance business, as head of U.S. business operations audit. Panella comes to Talcott after eight years at Prudential Financial, where he most recently was vice president of operational risk management.
Puneet Puri has joined Goldman Sachs as senior vice president of internal audit working on credit and counterparty risk. Puri comes to the investment banking giant (working from its India operations center) after six years at Standard Chartered, where he held a similar role for internal audit and credit risk.
Michelle Goldfarb has been hired by wealth management firm Jordan Park Group as vice president of compliance. Goldfarb previously worked at JPMorgan for seven years as vice president of compliance.
Insurance giant Chubb has hired Gaini Umarov as assistant vice president for global infrastructure IT compliance. Umarov comes to Chubb after three years at audit firm EisnerAmper, where he was a senior manager.
Evergreen Bank has hired Daniel Earner (outstanding name for a bank employee!) as a compliance analyst. Earner comes to Evergreen from HSBC, where he worked in financial crimes investigations.
Angel One, a fintech firm in India, has hired Manoj Agarwal as chief compliance officer. Agarwal joins the business from Upstox, another Indian financial services firm, where he had been head of compliance and legal for three years.
Wise, a global payments startup based in London, has hired Alyssa Hiceta an internal audit senior manager, based in Belgium. Hiceta previously worked at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. as a vice president of internal audit.
Abacus Pharma, a pharmaceutical company serving the East Africa region, has hired Brian Nuwamanya as group head of internal audit, working in Uganda. Nuwamanya comes to Abacus from DFCU Bank, where he had also been head of internal audit.
Payments firm Square has hired Kathryn Boltuzic as compliance program manager in its Australia offices. Boltuzic previously spent five years at the Novatti Group, an Australian financial services firm, where she most recently was compliance program manager.
Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank, one of the larger banks in Turkey, has promoted Miraç Sönmez from vice president of audits and investigations to head of compliance.
Daniel Yeo has joined Apeiron International as head of group compliance. Yeo comes to the Singapore-based firm, which is a financial services platform for rich people, from AIA Financial Advisers, where he was head of risk and compliance.
Balyasny Asset Management, which of course goes by the nickname BAM, has hired Theresa Zapiecki as head of commodities compliance in Asia. Zapiecki will work from Singapore and comes to the firm from Adnoc Global Trading, where she was vice president of compliance.
Israeli software company Sapiens has hired Rushali Saha as a SOX compliance specialist. Saha comes to Sapiens after a few years at Ernst & Young, where she most recently was a senior associate in the assurance practice.
And American Express just hired Nefertary Miranda as an AML compliance analyst. Miranda previously spent three years at JP Morgan working in its private banking operations.
Moving Up the Ladder
Kelly Madsen has been appointed director of enterprise risk management and compliance at the California Housing Finance Agency, where she has been the deputy director of innovation and special initiatives since 2024
Charles Schwab has promoted Derick Caldwell from risk and control analyst to director of compliance risk testing.
Heart Rhythm Clinical Research Solutions has promoted Christopher McGorman from director of quality and regulatory affairs to vice president of compliance.
Mint Pharmaceuticals, a generics manufacturer in Canada, has promoted Elizabeth Granic from compliance associate to senior compliance associate.
Spirits Capital, a fintech platform for trading in whiskey and other liquor (a sign that capitalism has gone crazy, but OMG way cool at the same time), has promoted Michael Weydemuller from chief deed investment officer to chief compliance officer.
Topcon Healthcare has promoted Ray Everett from chief compliance officer and data privacy officer to general counsel for the company’s healthcare line of business.
Vendors & Service Providers
Pamela Clegg has left her job as chief compliance officer at United Texas Bank to join IVIX, a financial intelligence firm that roots out money laundering and other crypto schemes. Clegg will be vice president for Latin America, working to develop and execute the firm’s growth strategy there.
Remember Martin Pokorny, last seen at Sandoz as head of ethics, risk, and compliance for the Central Europe region? Just turned up at PwC as a senior manager in its Czech Republic offices.
Open Req Orders
Fintech firm Revolut is recruiting a chief compliance officer. Job is based in New York, with a salary range of $204,000 to $215,000.
eBay is looking for a compliance governance and strategy leader. Job is based in Austin, Texas, with a salary range of $165,000 to $260,000. Let’s all take a moment to be astonished that a job in Texas has disclosed a salary range.
Goldman Sachs is looking for a vice president of anti-bribery compliance, which operates within the bank’s financial crimes compliance unit. Job is based in Salt Lake City; salary range not disclosed.
Compliance Meme of the Week
That’s all for this week’s report.
As always, if you have a tip or want to brag about your new job, promotion, career milestone, or anything else, email me at mkelly@radicalcompliance.com or find me on LinkedIn. I’m always happy to give credit to the many hard-working people here in our corner of the business universe.