Director, Regulatory Relations & Oversight

Korn Ferry Group; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry is partnering with a financial technology and banking organization to recruit a Director of Regulatory Relations and Oversight. This full-time consulting engagement focuses on regulator engagement, examination coordination, and executive reporting in a complex regulatory environment.

The role requires hands-on leadership across Compliance, Risk, Legal, Operations, Product, and Technology to translate regulatory expectations into actionable work plans and to oversee remediation

Qualifications

• Senior Manager or Director-level experience in regulatory relations, regulatory compliance, regulatory risk, or a closely related financial-services function.
• Significant experience in financial services, banking, payments, fintech, or banking-as-a-service.
• Direct experience interacting with banking or financial-services regulators.
• Experience coordinating regulatory examinations, inquiries, requests, and formal responses.
• Demonstrated experience managing regulatory findings, commitments, corrective actions, or remediation programs.
• Working knowledge of payment platforms, payment infrastructure, and banking-as-a-service operating models.
• Ability to interpret regulatory expectations and translate them into practical business requirements and action plans.
• Experience developing executive and board-level presentations and regulatory status reporting.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear, accurate, and appropriately supported regulatory materials.
• Ability to lead through influence and coordinate stakeholders across multiple business functions.
• Strong judgment when handling confidential, sensitive, or high-impact regulatory matters.
• Willingness and ability to operate as a hands‑on individual contributor.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a principal point of coordination for relationships and interactions with applicable federal and state regulatory agencies.
• Coordinate regulatory examinations, inquiries, meetings, information requests, and follow-up activities.
• Draft, review, and manage responses to regulatory letters and other formal regulatory communications.
• Translate regulatory expectations into clear requirements, workstreams, owners, deliverables, and deadlines.
• Track regulatory commitments, supervisory findings, corrective actions, and remediation plans through closure.
• Work across Compliance, Risk, Legal, Operations, Product, Technology, and other business functions to address regulatory matters.
• Evaluate regulatory issues in the context of banking-as-a-service, payment platforms, and payment infrastructure.
• Support the development and review of disclosures related to payment products and services.
• Prepare concise, executive-ready presentations describing regulatory issues, exposure, progress, dependencies, and remediation status.
• Develop materials for executive leadership and board-level audiences.
• Identify delays, control gaps, resource constraints, and other risks that could affect regulatory commitments.
• Escalate material regulatory issues to senior leadership with clear analysis and recommended actions.
• Coordinate regulatory risk assessments and support governance over regulatory change.
• Monitor emerging regulatory expectations affecting payment and financial technology businesses.
• Strengthen regulatory governance, issue-management processes, reporting, and accountability.
• Promote a culture of regulatory compliance and effective cross-functional ownership.

Skills

Regulatory leadership

Regulatory compliance

Regulatory risk

Executive reporting

Regulatory communications

Stakeholder coordination

Hands-on contributor

Job description

Korn Ferry is partnering with a financial technology and banking organization to recruit a Director of Regulatory Relations and Oversight. This full-time consulting engagement focuses on regulator engagement, examination coordination, and executive reporting in a complex regulatory environment.

The role requires hands-on leadership across Compliance, Risk, Legal, Operations, Product, and Technology to translate regulatory expectations into actionable work plans and to oversee remediation