Compliance Jobs Report: July 3
An early edition of the Compliance Jobs Report this week in honor of the July 4th holiday! We have news from Lowe’s, Sony, AirBnB, CBRE, Northern Trust, Syneos Health, Westpac, and many more. Job leads are in banking, retail, and engineering; and Meme of the Week goes out to fireworks displays.
We also take any other gossip you might have, even confidentially. If you have a tip to pass along, email me at [email protected] or find me on LinkedIn.
Compliance Jobs
This week we begin with an update on Casey Kaplan, former senior ethics and compliance executive at Nike until he left the company last week. Well, he just turned up at home improvement giant Lowe’s as vice president of compliance and regulatory affairs.
And another follow up from last week, this time about Vanessa Sisti. She recently bailed out of the Justice Department, where she had been assistant chief of the FCPA unit, for a job at Sony. Sisti now says she is senior counsel for compliance, ethics, and litigation.
CBRE has hired Monica Sharma as head of ethics and compliance for the real estate company’s India operations. Sharma joins CBRE after three years as regional ethics and compliance lead for Reckitt, the British consumer products manufacturer.
PNC has hired Derick Rheaume as senior vice president and group compliance manager for the bank’s enterprise operations. Rheaume joins PNC after 14 years at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (thank you for your service; agency employees deserved better treatment), where he most recently had been a field examination manager in the CFPB’s repeat offender unit.
Jeff Houde has joined Northern Trust as senior vice president and director of financial crimes audit. Houde comes to the bank after six years at USAA, most recently as audit director for bank fraud.
Cerebras Systems, an AI startup in Silicon Valley, has hired Dan Ang as director of GRC. Ang previously worked at SoFi for almost six years, most of them as senior manager for cybersecurity and GRC.
Laura Gonzalez recently joined City National Bank as vice president for conflicts of interest compliance. Gonzalez had been working for the last two years as a solo lawyer working with families needing special education services; prior to that she was at Credit Suisse as director of policies and training in the firm’s asset management division.
HRL Labs, a research services firm owned by Boeing and General Motors, has hired Michael Withers as a senior manager for trade compliance. Withers comes to HRL— “a source of innovations that advance the state of the art in profound and far-reaching ways” — after six years at L3Harris Technologies, where he most recently had been trade compliance principal.
AirBnB has hired Lyn McCord as an AML compliance officer. McCord joins AirBnB after nine years at U.S. Bank, where she most recently had been a financial crimes compliance risk manager.
Sam Fintikakis has Férique Funds, an investment fund in Quebec, as director of compliance. Fintikakis joins the firm after five years at BMO Nesbitt Burns, a subsidiary of the Bank of Montreal, where he most recently was regional supervision officer.
PayPal has hired Shelby Douglas as senior director of global compliance. Douglas comes to PayPal from Fiserv, where she had been director of compliance advisory services.
Sedgwick, a provider of claims administration services to insurance firms, has hired Monica Rice as director of regulatory compliance. Rice comes to Sedgwick after 10 years at Optum, most recently as public policy and regulatory affairs manager.
Andrew Skoller has been hired by Fiserv as sanctions compliance manager. Skoller previously worked at Deutsche Bank for three years, most recently as a change execution manager.
Webster Bank has hired Ryan Coseo as managing director for SOX compliance. Coseo comes to Webster, which is based in Stamford, Conn., with $60 billion in assets, after 11 years at PwC in various assurance roles.
Christine Studioso has joined Livingston County in the Finger Lakes region of New York as its first-ever chief compliance officer. Studioso comes to the job after 12 years at student loan giant Navient, where she most recently had been a senior manager for compliance.
Huntington Insurance just picked up Emily Derry as a senior compliance and risk specialist. Derry previously worked at Truist, where she had been a commercial community bank risk adviser.
British utilities giant National Grid has hired Scot Nelson as a risk, controls, and regulatory compliance senior manager, working for the company’s U.K. operations. Nelson had previously been a senior manager for regulatory compliance at BT until earlier this year.
Leah Floyd has joined Aston University, a research university in Birmingham, U.K., as a compliance officer. Floyd previously spent seven years at Babington, a British apprenticeship and training program; the last four of them as compliance officer.
AssuredPartners, an insurance broker, has hired Joe Hanlon as director of SOX compliance. Hanlon previously worked at Genworth as director of IT audit.
Singapore digital payments firm UQPay has hired Boon Tiong Lim as group compliance manager. Lim previously worked at MDI Ventures in Singapore as general manager of legal and compliance.
Amicorp Group, a financial services firm based in Hong Kong, has hired Ismail Vinoos as head of governance and compliance in the firm’s South Africa offices. Vinoos comes to Amicorp from Old Mutual Wealth, where he had been head of governance for the last year.
Tekla Surguladze is leaving Zeekr, a Dutch electric vehicle brand that is part of the Geely Group in China. Surguladze had been senior compliance manager for Zeekr’s European operations for two years.
Mark Smalley has left his job as chief compliance officer at Bitcoin Depot, a role he held since 2020. No word on what he’s doing next.
And Emily Kidd just stepped away from her job as internal audit director for the city of Reno, Nev. Apparently she’s taking a career break. More power to her, we should all do so from time to time.
Moving Up the Ladder
Sony Pictures has promoted Bernard Williams from associate general counsel for ethics and legal compliance to vice president of the same.
PwC has promoted Nathan Hamilton from senior manager for global risk management to director of global ethics and compliance. (This is a role to support PwC’s internal ethics and compliance program, not its advisory practice.)
Luxury goods maker Kering has promoted Gira Marie Derise-Weaver from supply chain planning manager to director of transportation and trade compliance.
Close Brothers, a merchant bank based in London, has promoted Elizabeth Martine from risk director to controls design and oversight director.
Swiss Re has moved Gabriela Mihalikova from compliance officer for iptiQ Americas, a Swiss Re subsidiary, to head of compliance risk solutions for Swiss Re itself.
Insurance giant Aviva has promoted Scott Barham from senior compliance manager to head of compliance and conduct.
Shell has promoted Justyna Balawender from procurement assurance specialist to ethics and compliance assurance lead. She’s based in Poland.
Syneos Health has promoted Nicole Altieri from senior analyst for SOX compliance management to associate director of compliance and assurance.
Two notable moves at Australian banking giant Westpac Group. The company has moved Kris Glaveski from head of compliance for mortgages to head of compliance for consumer lending; promoted Anthony Bejjani from manager of enterprise compliance to manager of compliance for the business and private wealth banking groups.
Canon USA has promoted Stacey Chimenti, from director of financial planning to senior director for financial planning, compliance, and risk
Omnicell has promoted Ashley Swanson from senior director for compliance and risk management to vice president of compliance and risk.
American Greetings, maker of greeting cards, has promoted Kristina Beifus from director of compliance and sustainability to senior director of compliance, sustainability, and trade.
Open Req Orders
JPMorgan Chase is recruiting an employee conduct senior officer, a role that focuses on political contributions and other donations that fall under the oversight of JPMorgan’s global anti-corruption compliance program. Job is based in Jersey City, N.J., with a salary range of $90,000 to $134,000.
TJX Cos. is looking for a social compliance specialist, working on ethical sourcing and related supply-chain risk issues. Job is based in suburban Boston; salary range listed at $63,000 to $78,000, which is enough for a 20-something to live nearby with a roommate or two.
Koch Engineered Solutions is looking for a global compliance director. Job is based in Wichita, Kans. The role reports to the general counsel (boo!), and no salary range is listed (even more boo!), but it does give preference to applicants with the CCEP, CFE, or other compliance-related certifications.
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 [email protected] 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.