Senior Director, Corporate Compliance

If you're passionate about being part of a diverse organization that enables a company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to deliver innovative business solutions with excellence, then Nationwide's Legal team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

This is a hybrid opportunity, working 3 days out of the Columbus, OH office and 2 days from home.

Are you someone who is compelled to “do the right thing?” Are you able to make decisions to ensure regulatory and legal compliance that protects a business and its customers? If you thrive in an environment where you can solve tricky issues and achieve business goals within the complex, highly regulated insurance industry, we want to know more about you!

We work across the enterprise to help find ways to work through issues successfully. Nationwide's culture of compliance and passion for providing extraordinary care to its customers makes the Office of Compliance & Ethics a valued partner across the Nationwide enterprise.

As a Senior Compliance Director, you will collaborate with our business partners to ensure business operations are conducted in compliance with regulatory, legal and organizational requirements. You’ll direct a team of hard-working associates who are responsible for supporting business operations through the creation and maintenance of policies and procedures, training and communications, and coordination of the legislative and regulatory review and implementation program.

• Leads, engages and inspires a team of compliance associates who perform the activities of a corporate compliance program to support and ensure compliance with federal and state regulations.
• Partners with business to ensure objectives and strategies are aligned with regulatory requirements, maintaining in-depth business knowledge to ensure appropriate compliance oversight.
• Counsels business on compliance standards and emerging compliance issues. Collaborates with business unit leaders on the most complex compliance matters. Maintains a strong leadership presence in the business to cultivate an environment where our business partners comfortably seek guidance on compliance matters.
• Develops, documents and maintains a program that includes risk assessments, development and maintenance of applicable policies, procedures and guidelines and monitoring, testing and reporting protocols that are appropriately tailored to prevent and detect compliance risks. Assesses the design and adequacy of functional compliance policies, procedures, training and objectives to ensure effectiveness of compliance program.
• Monitors compliance and regulatory industry trends. Accountable for proactively communicating regulatory changes and their impacts, and proposing solutions to ensure compliance.
• Responsible for leading major projects associated with compliance objectives. May also lead compliance aspect of large projects taking place within business, including regulatory exams.
• Hires, trains and leads a team of compliance associates with responsibilities that include hiring, training and developing associates and managing individual and team performance.
• Maintains effective working relationships with business partners, insurance/regulatory agency authorities, trade associations, and other insurance/financial companies.
• Oversees the development and use of data analytics to enhance the compliance program.
• Raises compliance issues and potential violations of compliance policies and procedures, laws, regulations and standards of good business to Compliance leadership, Chief Compliance Officer and Nationwide's Chief Compliance Officer, as appropriate. Periodically reports/presents to senior management, boards of directors and others.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reports to VP, NFS CCO.

Education: Undergraduate studies in business administration, insurance, business ethics, criminal justice, computer science,…