Director, Regulatory Relations & Oversight

Korn Ferry; 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 lead regulatory relations at the Director level. The role demands hands-on leadership in regulator engagement, examinations coordination, and executive reporting across multiple functions.

You will translate complex regulatory expectations into actionable workstreams and drive remediation efforts to closure. This is a full-time consulting engagement anchored in a complex regulatory environment, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Senior Manager or Director-level experience in regulatory relations, regulatory compliance, 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.
• Experience managing regulatory findings, commitments, corrective actions, or remediation programs.
• 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 with clear, accurate regulatory materials.
• Ability to lead through influence and coordinate stakeholders across multiple functions.
• Hands-on, execution-oriented mindset with ability to move regulatory matters forward.

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 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 cross-functional ownership.

Skills

Regulatory relations

Regulatory compliance

Regulatory risk

Executive reporting

Stakeholder coordination

Cross-functional leadership

Written regulatory communications

Examinations coordination

Regulatory governance

Hands-on contributor

Job description

Korn Ferry is partnering with a financial technology and banking organization to lead regulatory relations at the Director level. The role demands hands-on leadership in regulator engagement, examinations coordination, and executive reporting across multiple functions.

You will translate complex regulatory expectations into actionable workstreams and drive remediation efforts to closure. This is a full-time consulting engagement anchored in a complex regulatory environment, with a focus on