Operations & Compliance Analyst - Path to PMO

Midwest Startups; Chicago, Saint Petersburg (IL, FL); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kin Financing, a remote-first home lending program by Kin, is seeking an Operations & Compliance Analyst to own licensing, reporting, and audit work. Learn the filings, then drive improvements as the team grows.

No mortgage or legal background required initially; emphasis on learning, accuracy, and scalable processes. In this role you’ll own renewals, coordinate audits, and refine processes, with a path toward program or project management as Kin Financing expands to new states and partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• 1–3 years of professional experience in a role with recurring hard deadlines and external-facing obligations
• A track record of accurate work in a context where mistakes carry consequences
• Experience picking up unfamiliar rules, systems, or procedures quickly and getting them right
• Experience taking over work from someone else and running it without needing it re-explained
• Written and verbal communication that stands on its own with external parties like regulators, auditors, lenders, and vendors
• Interest in growing into program or project management

Responsibilities

• Own ongoing reporting obligations to licensing bodies, investors, warehouse lenders, and service providers, and manage the renewal calendar for all Kin Financing lending licenses
• Run the application process for new state licenses, warehouse lenders, investors, and service providers from first filing through approval
• Maintain Kin Financing's policies and procedures so they stay an accurate record of how the business actually operates
• Coordinate audits end to end and own post-audit remediation through closure
• Drive the review and approval process for Kin Financing vendor contracts in partnership with Kin's Legal, Finance, and Information Security teams
• Document the processes you inherit, then refine them — once you know the work well enough to see where it could run better, bring us the changes
• Use AI tools to work faster and with better coverage — researching regulatory requirements, drafting first-pass policy and process documentation, and reducing the manual load of recurring reporting

Skills

Written and verbal communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Kin Financing, a remote-first home lending program by Kin, is seeking an Operations & Compliance Analyst to own licensing, reporting, and audit work. Learn the filings, then drive improvements as the team grows.

No mortgage or legal background required initially; emphasis on learning, accuracy, and scalable processes. In this role you’ll own renewals, coordinate audits, and refine processes, with a path toward program or project management as Kin Financing expands to new states and partners.