Northwestern Mutual

Northwestern Mutual

Compliance Systems Consultant

Milwaukee, WI Corporate

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
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About the role

  • Provide training, onboarding, and coaching for team members and end users, and demonstrate the ability to triage and re‑prioritize quickly across multiple systems and competing demands in a dynamic, regulatory‑driven environment.
  • Compliance Metrics, Monitoring & Reporting: Establishes, analyzes and interprets compliance metrics.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and advance assigned initiatives for one or more monitoring and surveillance systems (scoping, requirements, design, UAT, deployment, change control), coordinating with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
  • Provide requirements to create monitoring dashboards. Monitor and publish compliance metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and trend reports that inform oversight decisions and executive/regulatory reporting
  • Perform baseline and ad hoc analyses to identify and quantify compliance risk and system limitations
  • document findings, recommend mitigations, and escalate significant risks to leadership and governance forums.
  • Drive continuous improvement by identifying automation and analytics opportunities, building business cases with success metrics, and leading pilots and program rollouts in accordance with firm AI and change governance.
  • Manage vendor-delivered enhancements and services: define business requirements, validate deliverables through rigorous testing, maintain release documentation, and coordinate support/resolution of operational issues.
  • Maintain and update system documentation, supervisory manuals, user guides, and procedural artifacts
  • oversee user support escalation paths and ensure consistent, high‑quality responses to regulatory and oversight requests.
  • Provide requirements to create monitoring dashboards.
  • Perform baseline and ad hoc analyses to identify and quantify compliance risk and system limitations; document findings, recommend mitigations, and escalate significant risks to leadership and governance forums.

Requirements

  • Skills You Have Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations.

Nice to have

  • ensure policies and procedures are aligned with system behavior, controls, and regulatory requirements.
  • Provide training, onboarding, and coaching for divisional employees and, potentially, stakeholders
  • Mentor and provide leadership to less‑senior team members
  • Triage and prioritize work by risk, urgency, and impact
  • rapidly re‑prioritize tasks and shift focus across multiple systems and competing demands while maintaining accuracy and timelines.
  • Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience supporting compliance monitoring, surveillance, or related technology programs
  • experience in financial services compliance or supervisory environments preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience leading medium‑to‑large, cross‑functional system projects from requirements through production implementation.

Compensation

  • Pay Range - Start:
  • Pay Range - End:
  • Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
  • $98,320.00 USD - $147,480.00 USD
  • $102,800.00 USD - $154,200.00 USD
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Benefits

  • Serve as a lead on the Enterprise Compliance Systems Management team with responsibility for one or more enterprise compliance monitoring applications used by the Home Office and field.
  • Conduct or oversee daily, monthly, and quarterly monitoring to confirm expected performance and control effectiveness, and perform program‑level analyses of system health, monitoring coverage, and regulatory risk.
  • validate system performance, tune detection logic to reduce false positives, and ensure monitoring coverage aligns with regulatory expectations and firm policies.
  • Lead and facilitate cross‑functional planning and stakeholder communications across field and Home Office
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to explain complex or sensitive information and build consensus across field and Home Office stakeholders.

Equal opportunity

  • Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds.

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