Top Compliance Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Oversee U.S. state and local income tax compliance, filings, forecasting, tax accounting, planning, audit defense, and compliance processes. Coordinate with external providers, review tax calculations and workpapers, monitor legislative developments, provide tax guidance to management, and improve compliance procedures. The role requires strong state tax expertise, ASC 740 and U.S. GAAP knowledge, communication skills, and experience in a large public accounting firm or multinational corporation.

Leads enterprise compliance testing across a financial institution, managing multi-tiered teams, testing methodologies, calendars, data scripts, reporting, and audit responses. Partners with compliance, data, technology, and business teams to improve testing through innovation, communicate significant findings to senior leadership, and ensure timely, accurate execution. The role requires substantial financial services compliance, risk, audit, people leadership, regulatory, and analytical experience.

Manage tax planning, compliance, and reporting across a multi-entity organization. Serve as primary tax authority, coordinate with external advisors, oversee partnership and indirect tax compliance, maintain filing calendar, handle information reporting (1099/1042), support international tax matters, liaise with government authorities, and improve tax processes and controls.

Own compliance advisory for the Affirm Card program across marketing, onboarding, payments, disputes, servicing, and new product features. Apply consumer finance regulations, review disclosures and UX, lead root-cause analysis and remediation, maintain risk assessments and controls, support regulatory exams and audits, and develop compliance training. Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal, Risk, and senior leadership to make independent, risk-based decisions.

Serve as a second-line Compliance partner for the New-to-Credit card business, advising on product development, controls, monitoring, remediation, and regulatory requirements. Perform control assessments, validations (including UDAAP), review audit and exam issues, support third-party compliance testing, analyze compliance data, and participate in governance and reporting to ensure scalable, compliant business growth.

Provides second-line compliance and risk management support for a credit card business. Advises leaders on regulatory requirements, product development, controls, policies, monitoring, remediation, UDAAP, compliance testing, third-party compliance, and governance reporting. Reviews control assessments, evaluates audit and regulatory issues, identifies risks, and recommends corrective actions. Requires strong knowledge of compliance frameworks, applicable laws, and card operations, with occasional travel to company locations.

Develop and implement a risk-based U.S. compliance program, including regulatory monitoring, risk assessments, controls, financial crime initiatives, whistleblowing, conflicts of interest, training, and regulatory change management. Advise U.S. leadership, support regulatory examinations, oversee compliance reporting, and partner with global Compliance, Legal, Risk, Audit, and business teams to promote ethical conduct and manage regulatory risk.

Own Motive’s global financial products compliance program across AML/BSA, sanctions, KYC/KYB, PEP screening, transaction monitoring, lending compliance, audits, and regulatory relationships. Develop policies and controls, ensure operational effectiveness, manage bank and card network partners, monitor regulatory changes, support compliant product launches, and establish governance across multiple jurisdictions including the US, Canada, and UK/EU. Build the compliance function and advise leadership on compliance risk.

Leads Microsoft’s anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance program for datacenter construction and infrastructure development. Responsibilities include designing compliance strategies, conducting books-and-records and transactional audits, performing risk assessments, strengthening controls, developing policies and playbooks, delivering training, monitoring risks, and driving remediation. The role partners with construction, engineering, procurement, legal, and senior leadership teams across global infrastructure programs.

Leads financial crime compliance business analysis for AML modernization initiatives. Partners with compliance, risk, engineering, and IT teams to define requirements, map banking data, translate regulations into monitoring rules, evaluate vendor capabilities, conduct gap analysis, and manage UAT. Develops BRDs, FSDs, test plans, user stories, and acceptance criteria while supporting transaction monitoring, KYC, sanctions screening, investigations, case management, and regulatory reporting programs.

Leads the U.S. consumer compliance program, focusing on Regulation E and UDAAP controls across credit, prepaid, and digital asset products. Responsibilities include compliance reviews, consumer complaint analysis, error-resolution oversight, chargeback compliance, regulatory examinations, audits, remediation plans, policy management, and cross-functional implementation of consumer protection requirements. Provides secondary support for BSA/AML alignment, regulatory submissions, and executive reporting.

Leads second-line oversight of PayPal’s global payment network and partner compliance programs. Responsibilities include independent challenge, partner due diligence, monitoring, risk identification, issue escalation, remediation, regulatory and network information requests, and executive advisory support. The role partners across Legal, Product, Risk, Sales, Partnerships, and Compliance to improve governance, automate workflows, and ensure adherence to Visa, Mastercard, regulatory, and contractual obligations.

Owns day-to-day corporate tax operations, compliance calendars, multistate indirect tax filings, nexus analysis, tax controls, income tax coordination, international tax matters, notices, examinations, and ancillary reporting. Partners with internal teams and external advisors to assess tax impacts of products, channels, pricing, and cross-border activities. Maintains tax infrastructure, reconciliations, registrations, documentation, and process improvements while supporting legal entity, transfer pricing, acquisition, R&D credit, and other tax projects.

The Senior Compliance Manager will build and scale a consumer-lending compliance program. Responsibilities include advising product development, partnering with Legal and bank partners, designing automated compliance workflows, creating dashboards and reporting, managing complaints and remediation, tracking issues, and delivering compliance training. The role requires expertise in consumer protection regulations, fintech or financial-services compliance, data-driven risk management, and cross-functional influence.

Manages regulatory compliance monitoring and testing for a fintech financial services platform. Designs testing protocols, audits lending disclosures and credit notices, reviews marketing and complaint trends, monitors regulatory changes, conducts compliance audits, and recommends remediation. Partners with legal, compliance, business, and operational teams to identify risks and implement practical controls across U.S. lending products.

Manage and continuously optimize the Compliance Management System, including external assessments, vendor monitoring, compliance training, governance documentation, and reporting. Serve as a risk and compliance subject matter expert for regulated partners, advise cross-functional teams, identify control gaps, and implement scalable process improvements. Use AI and automation to improve compliance efficiency while validating recommendations and ensuring accountability across partnerships.

Leads enterprise compliance programs and regulatory governance frameworks, providing second-line oversight, risk assessments, monitoring, testing, effective challenge, issue remediation, and regulatory change management. Advises senior leaders and partners with business, legal, risk, HR, audit, and regulatory teams. Oversees programs involving Regulation W, conflicts of interest, employee activities, accessibility, and related enterprise requirements while preparing governance reporting and supporting examinations, audits, and regulatory inquiries.

Leads Coinflow’s enterprise compliance governance program across the US, Canada, and EU. Responsibilities include policy and control framework ownership, second-line BSA/AML testing, regulatory change management, sponsor bank coordination, audit and exam readiness, issue remediation, governance reporting, and compliance tooling rollout. The role partners with Risk, Legal, Engineering, Product, Underwriting, AML, and Operations while driving findings and action items to documented closure.

Oversee multi-state and local tax compliance across multiple entities and jurisdictions, including sales and use tax filings, registrations, audits, notices, tax accruals, and risk mitigation. Manage and mentor a Sales Tax Specialist, coordinate income and franchise tax matters with external firms, maintain Avalara and NetSuite integrations, support tax configuration, and improve compliance processes and reporting.

Oversee internal audits, regulatory compliance, internal controls, risk management, governance, and fraud investigations. Plan and execute audits, identify control weaknesses, recommend corrective actions, prepare reports, monitor remediation, support external audits and regulatory inspections, and collaborate with stakeholders to improve operational efficiency and compliance.

Serve as second-line compliance advisor for US Card business, providing regulatory guidance (Reg Z, Reg B, FCRA, UDAAP), performing control assessments, advising on product/process changes, supporting compliance testing and remediation, participating in governance and reporting, and partnering with business leaders to integrate compliance into strategy and operations.

Provide fractional compliance advisory to alternative investment firms and family offices: develop and implement compliance programs, Form ADV filings, policies, controls, training, regulatory exam readiness, risk assessments, remediation, and ad-hoc projects.

Lead the firm’s AML program by monitoring transactions and customer activity, identifying money laundering and fraud, filing SARs, and maintaining AML, KYC, and compliance policies. Design monitoring scenarios, support model validation, risk assessments, testing, and compliance technology initiatives. Monitor regulatory developments and collaborate with legal, technology, senior management, and regulators including FINRA, SEC, and FinCEN. Support training, regulatory responses, and firmwide compliance initiatives.

Manages compliance and privacy governance, strategic initiatives, risk tracking, reporting, documentation, and accountability across cross-functional teams. Coordinates governance forums, KPIs, dashboards, issue remediation, controls, workflows, communications, and audit-readiness activities. Partners with business, legal, compliance, audit, and operations stakeholders to standardize processes, embed requirements, improve efficiency, and support change management.

Leads state and local income tax compliance operations, supervises multiple engagements, reviews complex multistate returns, handles tax authority notices and client representation, researches complex tax matters, and drives business development. Manages budgets, develops employees, coordinates department activities, and provides firm leadership. Requires deep expertise in state tax concepts, pass-through taxation, compliance technology, client service, and team management.