Compliance Analyst

You’ll be the engine of our regulatory and product compliance work: reviewing what product teams are building, researching the rules that apply, and making sure every commitment we make has an owner, a date and evidence behind it.

This is a generalist seat. In a given week you might review a payments feature, check a marketing claim, track a privacy fix with Engineering and update a partner due diligence file. You’ll start with broad coverage and grow into ownership of a regulatory lane (payments and money movement, payroll and tax, or privacy and data).

Here's how you will make an impact:

Product and marketing reviews

• Triage incoming compliance review requests, gather facts from Product and Engineering, and draft risk assessments using our templates
• Prepare draft conditions and recommendation for Leadership sign-off on Medium and High tier reviews
• Track approval conditions to closure in Jira and follow up with owners until evidence is in
• Review marketing content and customer communications against set guidelines

Regulatory research and program upkeep

• Research US and Canadian requirements and write short, clear summaries for the team and stakeholders
• Monitor regulatory change and flag what affects Wave’s products
• Maintain the regulatory inventory, policy library, registration calendar and issue log
• Keep the compliance scorecard and KPI data current

Partners and evidence

• Assemble evidence for processor, card network and partner audits, attestations and inquiries
• Help draft and maintain policies, procedures and training content

Make work easier

• Spot repetitive manual steps and help automate them (ex. AI assistance)

You Thrive Here By Possessing the Following:

Required

• 2-4 years in compliance, risk, legal or regulatory operations at a fintech, payments company, bank or other regulated business
• Experience reviewing products, processes or content for regulatory risk
• Comfort reading a regulation and explaining what it means in plain language
• Strong organization: you track open items across teams and close them
• Clear, concise writing and a habit of documenting decisions
• Curiosity about how products work, and confidence asking engineers and product managers direct questions

Nice to have

• Exposure to payments, car network rules, payroll, privacy (PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, CCPA) or consumer protection (UDAAP, CASL)
• Experience in both US and Canadian markets
• Experience with Jira, SharePoint, and GRC tools
• CRCM, CAMS, or other Compliance/Risk certifications or interest in pursuing one