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AVP, Compliance Officer

Axos Bank
San Diego, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Apr 2026
💰 $82,000/yr($70,304/yr$82,000/yr)

About the role

Axos Bank

Target Range:

$70,304.00/Yr. - $82,000.00/Yr.

Actual starting pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, experience, skills, specialty, and education.

Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Cash Bonus Target: 10%

Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Restricted Stock Units Bonus Target: 10%

These discretionary target bonuses may be awarded semi-annually based upon your achievement of performance goals and targets.

About This Job

As the AVP, Compliance Officer, you will play a pivotal role in leading and executing compliance risk assessments, quality assurance reviews, and compliance monitoring processes across high-risk activities. You will support business units in navigating regulatory changes, marketing compliance, and company-wide training initiatives. This role is essential to maintaining the bank’s integrity and enabling its growth in a highly regulated environment.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop, enhance or lead scheduled loan level documentation reviews, kick off meetings, transactional testing, risk assessments on all lending products through focused and random sample basis to increase effectiveness of the compliance program

  • Lead touchpoint meetings with business unit leaders communicate results, action steps, and regulatory change management as applicable

  • Perform, identify and develop data driven compliance monitoring, model validation, and reporting to include working with data analytics to develop alerts

  • Serve as lead oversight on the review and approval of marketing and advertising collateral items (i.e. Bank and third party), disclosures, new products, and general regulatory questions

  • Provide response and/or guidance to the Business Units

  • Participate in new product and service initiatives

  • Evaluate process maps, procedures, policies, and management directives for accuracy and completeness

  • Proactively identify, analyze, communicate, and execute upon improvements to compliance procedures and programs

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Law, or related field

  • Minimum 5 years in compliance, risk management, or regulatory affair

  • Experience with OCC, CFPB, and other regulatory bodies preferred

  • Strong understanding of lending operations and underwriting guidelines

Axos Employee Benefits May Include:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance

  • Paid Sick Leave, 3 weeks’ Vacation, and Holidays (about 11 a year)

  • HSA or FSA account and other voluntary benefits

  • 401(k) Retirement Saving Plan with Employer Match Program and 529 Savings Plan

  • Employee Mortgage Loan Program and free access to an Axos Bank Account with Self-Directed Trading

About Axos

Born digital-first, Axos delivers financial tools and services that allow individuals, small businesses, and companies to access and manage their money how, when, and where they want. We’re a diverse team of dynamic, insightful, and independent innovators who are excited to provide technology-driven solutions that offer unbeatable value to our customers.

Axos Financial is our holding company and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "AX" (NYSE: AX).

Learn more about working at Axos

Pre-Employment Background Check and Drug Test:

All offers are contingent upon the candidate successfully passing a credit check, criminal background check, and pre-employment drug screening, which includes screening for marijuana. Axos Bank is a federally regulated banking institution. At the federal level, marijuana is an illegal schedule 1 drug; therefore, we will not employ any person who tests positive for marijuana, regardless of state legalization.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Axos is an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex (including pregnancy, breast feeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military and veteran status, marital status, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, physical disability, mental disability, or any other protected status

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