Compliance Lead (Insurance & Service Warranties)

Job Description:

Likewize is seeking an experienced Compliance Lead to join our team at our global headquarters in Southlake, TX. In this role, you will act as a key member of the second line of defense, overseeing day-to-day compliance activities, ensuring alignment with internal policies and regulatory standards. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of second line of defense roles and responsibilities as well as insurance and service warranty requirements in the US and Canada. You will collaborate closely with the first and third lines of defense, providing expertise to strengthen our compliance posture.

Your day-to-day responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead and execute compliance programs, ensuring alignment with company policy, regulatory requirements, and contractual obligations.
• Perform independent monitoring, testing, and assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of internal processes and controls and adherence to regulatory requirements.
• Identify, assess, and escalate compliance risks, ensuring appropriate remediation and issue management processes are followed.
• Provide subject matter expertise in areas of insurance/service warranty programs, marketing, privacy, third party risk management and advise on effective mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with the first line of defense to enhance processes, controls, and risk management practices.
• Partner with the third line of defense (Internal Audit) to facilitate audits and ensure timely resolution of findings.
• Produce detailed reports and presentations for senior management and regulatory stakeholders.
• Participate in setup/renewal of state/federal/provincial insurance licenses

If you are who we are looking for, you will have the following education, skills and/or experience:

• 5-10 years of experience in a second line of defense role.
• Experience working with states on insurance license renewals.
• Experience with performing risk assessments, monitoring, testing, issue management, third party risk management.
• Familiarity with GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) tools.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across all lines of defense and influence stakeholders.
• Relevant licenses including insurance producer/adjuster.

Our global headquarters in Southlake TX is easily accessible to both Dallas and Fort Worth and we are 5 minutes from Southlake Town Square. We offer competitive compensation, market leading benefits and many fantastic onsite amenities through our real estate partner, VariSpace. VariSpace is designed to elevate the way businesses approach the office. Our innovative workspace brings a first-class employee experience with covered parking, spacious break areas, raffles/games, onsite gym, cafeteria and state of the art facilities.