Job Description

Join Our Team as a Compliance Officer – Be the Champion of Compliance Excellence at First Secure Bank Group! Are you a detail-driven professional with a passion for doing things the right way? Do you thrive on creating order out of complexity and staying one step ahead of regulations? If so, First Secure Bank Group wants to meet you! We’re seeking a Compliance Officer who’s ready to take ownership of our Compliance Program and champion a culture of accountability across our community-focused financial institution. This is your opportunity to play a key leadership role supporting all three of our bank charters and departments under the holding company umbrella. You’ll be the go-to expert, advisor, and watchdog—helping us navigate the ever-evolving regulatory landscape while making sure our practices are solid, ethical, and efficient.

About the Role - CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Demonstrate highest standards of personal and professional integrity, adhere to company’s policies and procedures, and comply with applicable laws, government rules and regulations.
• Develop, implement and maintain compliance model required for banks to operate within acceptable standards.
• Create monitoring reports specific to regulatory areas including but not limited to BSA, CRA, Loan Operations and Deposit Operations, and assure departmental responses to questions or issues.
• Research compliance concerns and provides compliance information and support to all areas of the bank and home mortgage group.
• Collaborate with the COO on resolutions of any identified weakness to help mitigate risk.
• Performs research, reviews and approves all bank and home mortgage advertising. This includes social media, brochures, flyers, discount coupons, informational handouts, marketing agreements and website advertisements.
• Performs review of social media monitoring completed by home mortgage group CRM Administrator.
• Participates and coordinates the Compliance Committee meetings, Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Committee and BSA Committee.
• Prepares monthly monitoring recap for the Board of Directors.
• Presents compliance monitoring and compliance meeting recap on a quarterly basis to the Board of Directors.
• Completes a minimum of three hours per year for CRA service.
• Reviews internal and external audit findings via the Exception Tracking Report. Add compliance findings to the report and research findings that lack a response while removing closed findings.
• Produce quarterly risk management recap.
• Attends in-house and off-site compliance development and training seminars, webinars and/or conference calls.
• Continuously tracks and maintains the bank and home mortgage written compliance policies and procedures.
• Contributes to the compliance annual risk report.
• Coordinates third party audits and exams and compiles data, documents and reports, including follow-up on the status of the home mortgage groups compliance and quality audits.
• Ensures timely filing of the annual HMDA (if applicable) and CRA data.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications - Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, law, economics, or a related field preferred. An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.

Required Skills - Experience:

• 5 or more years of experience in bank compliance and/or bank audit.
• Experience managing and developing direct reports.

Preferred Skills - Certifications/Licenses:

• CRCM or another equivalent license preferred.

Skills :

• Excellent skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint are required for this position.
• Understanding of banking industry regulations, data privacy laws, and compliance requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with bank staff at all levels.
• Effective leadership and management skills.
• Knowledge of Jack Henry Silverlake desired.
• The ability to learn job or bank specific software applications.
• Ability to conduct extensive research and apply data to improve Compliance Program.
• Ability to learn and perform complex processes to meet specific procedures, policies and bank regulations that govern the company.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills to maintain workflow volume.

Pay range and compensation package - $90,000 to $115,000 annually

Equal Opportunity Statement - EEO

Supervisory Responsibility - This position has supervisory responsibilities over BSA Officer, CRA Specialist and Compliance Specialist.

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements - Working Conditions:

• Professional Office building
• This position requires occasional local travel.

Physical Demands:

• The ability to sit for long periods of time.
• The ability to see clearly at a distance of 20 inches or less, with or without corrective lenses, to read documents and/or view computer screen.
• The ability to hear, with or without hearing assistant, and talk and to communicate in person and via phone.
• The ability to use hands/fingers to enter, retrieve and/or manipulate data using a keyboard and computer daily.

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