Fair Lending Manager - Special Projects

March 19

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Cross River

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Cross River is a leading technology-focused financial company that provides API-driven banking infrastructure. They enable a wide range of financial services, leveraging partnerships with major payment networks like Visa, Mastercard, and American Express to offer card issuing solutions. Cross River supports innovation in financial services through a variety of products, including infrastructure for banks, digital lending solutions, faster payments like FedNow® and RTP®, and card and account programs for credit and debit. Their solutions cater to numerous sectors, redefining financial services with compliance-integrated solutions, serving neobanks, digital lenders, and various institutional credit investors.

Marketplace Lending • Small Business Loans • FinTech • Commercial Real Estate Loans • Crowdfunding

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2008

🏦 Banking

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

💰 $620M Series D on 2022-03

📋 Description

•Cross River is a highly profitable, fast-growing financial technology company powering the future of financial services. •Our comprehensive suite of innovative and scalable embedded payments, cards, and lending products deliver financial services for millions of businesses and consumers around the globe. •Cross River is backed by leading investors and serves the world’s most essential fintech and technology companies. •The Bank is seeking an experienced professional to lead Fair Lending Planning, Reporting, and Special Projects, reporting to the Head of Fair Lending. •The position will support the team’s strategic direction by designing and implementing a multitude of program elements, including reporting, while planning and leading special projects as needed to advance CRB’s fair lending program. •The Fair Lending Manager for Planning, Reporting, and Special Projects works independently and collaboratively, in conjunction with individuals and teams within Fair Lending, Compliance, other Risk disciplines, and the business, to plan and execute Fair Lending projects across all team disciplines. •The incumbent will perform a wide range of duties, including planning and carrying out special projects, reporting, and ad hoc requests, providing leadership and management support to the fair lending team, analyzing current operational processes, synthesizing and interpreting relevant information related to the Bank’s Fair Lending Program, and creating processes for developing, managing, and submitting regular or ad hoc team deliverables.

🎯 Requirements

•3+ years of experience leading and executing complex Fair Lending or consumer compliance workstreams, for a fintech bank preferred. •Bachelor’s degree required. •Experience using Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and report creation tools. •Strong time management and oral and written communication skills. •Experience in the financial service or banking sectors, preferably in fintech bank compliance, consumer or small business lending products, or consumer or small business credit risk management. •Understanding of U.S. Fair Lending and Fair Banking-related laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA/Reg B), Unfair, Deceptive and Abusive Act and Practices (UDAAP), and the Fair Housing Act (FHA). •Critical thinking and the ability to "connect the dots"; to synthesize information from various sources and multiple data points across multiple business units. •Demonstrated problem-solving ability, flexibility and adaptability. •Ability to operate successfully in a fast-paced environment. •Ability to collaborate successfully across internal teams. •Strong planning and organizational skills. •Strong presentation skills. •Experience working with stakeholders to build relationships and ensure operations are effectively carried out. •Expertise in fintech banking data, data validation, statistical analytics is a plus. •2+ years experience in fintech banking fair lending compliance (e.g., risk assessments, program oversight, or complaints management) strongly preferred.