Compliance Analyst
epiq counselBakersfield, CA
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Compliance Analyst
epiq counselBakersfield, CA
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Other Activities Related to Credit IntermediationFinancial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse ActivitiesOther Management Consulting Services$55–75/hour
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About the Opportunity:
Epiq Counsel is seeking an Issues Management Consultant to support our client, a high-growth fintech, within its compliance function. You’ll own the issues lifecycle from start to finish: identifying and documenting issues, driving root cause analysis, and working with product, engineering, and operations teams until each issue is fixed. You’ll also report status to the client’s bank partners.
About the Client:
- Our client is a fintech company that builds and runs credit card programs for consumer brands in partnership with banks. Its compliance team uses an embedded consultant model and works closely with product and engineering.
- Key Details
- Engagement Type: Consultant (contract)
Duration: 2+ Years (Ongoing, with no set end date)
Hours: Anticipated full-time
Work Model: Remote (US)
Pay Rate: $114,000–$156,000 annualized ($55–75/hour), based on experience and location
Benefits:
Healthcare, 401(k), paid vacation, paid holidays, and engagement support and coaching
Responsibilities:
- Issue Identification & Documentation (~35%)Find business-as-usual issues (defects, bugs, operational gaps) and log them in the team’s issue-tracking tool
- Write clear, complete issue records: description, impact, details, and root cause analysis
- Raise the documentation standard across the issues inventory
- Remediation Management (~40%)Work with product, engineering, and operations owners to agree remediation plans and dates
- Get remediation work into planning cycles and sprints, and follow up until it’s done
- Manage dependencies across teams and escalate when timelines slip
- Reporting & Bank Partner Communication (~25%)Report issue status, trends, and remediation progress to internal leadership and bank partners
- Keep issue records ready for exams and audits
Qualifications:
- 5+ years in compliance, risk, or issues management in financial services
- Hands-on experience writing up issues and leading root cause analysis
- Comfortable working in agile, sprint-based product and engineering environments
- Persistent and organized follow-through across many stakeholders
- Strong written communication skills
- Preferred Experience
- Fintech experience, especially in bank-partnership or sponsor-bank models
- Experience with consumer credit or card products
- Familiarity with Linear, Jira, or similar tools
- Experience reporting issues to a bank partner or regulator
Why This RoleThis is an ongoing role with real ownership inside a fintech compliance team that runs on a consultant model. If you like turning loose issues into clear records and seeing fixes through to done, the role is built for you. It comes with the flexibility and support of the Epiq Counsel model.
About Epiq Counsel
Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated, credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of matters for leading organizations across the U.S. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging, high-quality work that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control. We take the time to understand each legal professional's practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure alignment with sophisticated interim in-house opportunities. Leverage our network to work with organizations in need of top-tier legal services, and take the next step in your career by joining a vibrant community of Epiq legal professionals.
It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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$55–75/hour
Experience level
Lead
Location
Bakersfield, CA
Occupation
Compliance Managers
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Other Activities Related to Credit Intermediation
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