Compliance Governance Reporting Lead

Company Description

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

Job Description

The Compliance Governance and Reporting (CGR) team manages main components of Block’s Compliance Risk Management Framework and is part of the Global Policy and Governance (GPG) team within Block Compliance. The CGR team has responsibility for the following: Policy Governance, Risk Assessment, Compliance Training, Compliance Risk Assessments, Third-party Risk Management, Issues Management, Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) tooling, and Board Reporting.  

As a Compliance Governance Reporting Lead within the CGR team, you will report to the Head of Compliance Governance & Reporting and lead the team that provides comprehensive compliance reporting for the Block, Inc board, subsidiary boards, and general compliance program management reporting across all markets and jurisdictions. You will design a board and management reporting program. You have expertise in different compliance and risk programs and have business writing skills with the ability to tailor reporting for different audiences within a global financial services company. You will help evolve the Compliance Governance Reporting team by setting the strategy for the team, promoting data-driven reporting, and partnering with senior leadership and important partner teams globally. You will build a cohesive team vision and culture, and establish standards, processes, and tools to ensure continued growth of the program and delivery of a high-quality work product. 

Our employment model is distributed, offering the opportunity to work with teams across the world. This role can be based in any of our US offices or remotely in the United States. Flexibility to travel and work across time zones is required.

You Will:

• Set the Compliance Governance Reporting strategy for end-to-end development and management of board and management reporting within Compliance 

• Oversee the end-to-end Compliance Governance Reporting program for Compliance, including all related processes, routines, and repositories

• Be the CGR single contact for regulatory exams and audits, including tracking and reporting on the remediation of issues/findings

• Identify opportunities for improved reporting effectiveness and for scalability of the program

• Partner with senior Compliance leaders and important partners to produce content for Board and management reporting on a quarterly and monthly basis

• Partner with Analytics and Data teams to source data, evaluate data quality, and identify/develop important metrics to measure the health of Block Compliance

• Extract meaningful insights from large amounts of data and present them in a concise and digestible format

• Present complex compliance risk topics tailored to different audiences such as boards of directors, executives, and regulators

• Lead a small team, made up of analyst(s), to support the development and scalability of the program 

• Develop standards and internal processes, procedures, and practices to manage compliance reporting including, but not limited to, establishing writing guides/standards, quality reviews, standardized templates/tools, and routines for document retention

• Manage team intranet, compliance reporting calendar, reporting libraries, shared drives, and manage access controls to sensitive reporting records

• Manage, resolve, and report on escalations of blockers or areas of non-compliance through existing channels

• Support Compliance leadership in special projects

Qualifications

You Have:

• 8+ years of compliance experience in financial services, within highly matrixed and/or global organizations with responsibilities for board and management reporting

• Experience with data analytics and visualization platforms such (e.g. Snowflake, Tableau, Looker, SQL)

• In-depth knowledge in three or more of the following domain or program areas: Regulatory Examinations, Issues Management, Consumer Protection, Lending, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Financial Crimes including AML, Sanctions, etc.

• Demonstrated ability to contribute to the development of new/improved rep