Compliance Manager - Fair and Banking; FARB

Position: Compliance Manager - Fair and Responsible Banking (FARB)
Location:
4910 Tiedeman Road, Brooklyn Ohio

Job Summary

The Fair and Responsible Banking (FARB) Team Lead is a member of the Compliance team within Compliance Risk Management and supports FARB leadership in executing the Fair Lending Program. The Team Lead is responsible for leveraging advanced data analysis, leveraging AI-enabled analytics and business intelligence tools to quantify and/or assess risk as well as identifying, escalating, and mitigating FARB related risks through monitoring activities and manual file reviews.

The Team Lead will collaborate closely with the FARB Analytics Team to interpret regression model outputs, statistical analyses, and data-driven insights to identify potential FARB risks. The role will lead corresponding file examination reviews, develop testing worksheets, conduct reviews, and identify opportunities to automate file review processes to improve scalability, consistency, and insight generation while guiding analysts throughout execution.

This role will also drive innovation in data visualization, reporting automation, and analytics optimization to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the Fair Lending Program.

The qualified candidate must be able to work independently and use sound judgment, taking into consideration risk tolerances of the assigned LOBs as well as Key's overall risk appetite. This role will report directly to the Fair Lending Program Team Manager.

Essential Functions

• Lead the design and implementation of automation, AI-assisted monitoring, and advanced analytics processes to strengthen fair lending risk identification through file review, and monitoring scalability.
• Collaborate with the FARB Analytics Team to interpret regression model outputs, AI-assisted insights, and statistical analyses, and translate those results into monitoring priorities, automation opportunities, targeted reviews, and escalation of potential fair lending risks.
• Design and maintain repeatable analytics workflows, review worksheets, and work papers that align monitoring scope to model outputs, regulatory expectations, and identified areas of elevated risk.
• Design and implement automated reporting, dashboards, and data visualization that deliver accurate, timely, and executive-ready information to support management oversight, issue escalation, and program transparency.
• Lead fair lending loan file examinations, including comparative credit and file reviews, targeted testing, and validation of underwriting and decisioning outcomes to evaluate compliance with applicable fair and responsible banking laws, regulations, and internal standards.
• Use of analytics tools such as SAS, SQL, Python, and Power BI to quantify risk, analyze credit and lending outcomes, support comparative review selection, and inform automation-enabled fair lending monitoring strategies.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to peers and other members of the team as well as other members of Risk Management.
• Support the development and controlled use of AI-assisted monitoring, anomaly detection, and pattern recognition techniques to strengthen risk identification and investigative efficiency.
• Design and implement automated reporting and dashboards that deliver accurate, timely, and executive-ready information to support management oversight, issue escalation, and program transparency.
• Evaluate datasets to identify trends, disparities, and emerging risks across portfolios.
• Develop testing approach and work papers appropriate to analysis needs.
• Prepare clear, well-supported reports and presentations for internal leadership, senior management, and governance stakeholders that communicate methodology, findings, risk implications, and recommended actions.
• Respond to internal audit, regulatory exam, and other oversight requests by providing timely, accurate, and well-documented support, including analysis, work papers, and issue remediation input as needed.
• Possess in-depth practical knowledge of internal controls, risk assessments, compliance processes,
• and applicable techniques for the implementation of regulatory and legal requirements.
• Develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with mid to senior level management, other internal clients and peers, and Audit.
• Partner with other risk pillars, where appropriate, and provide a clear understanding of desired objectives.
• Maintain relationships with industry peers and regulatory bodies.
• Identify, respond, and/or escalate risks as appropriate.
• Assist in the development of policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines to align with corporate risk appetites, tolerances, and policies.
• Assist with conducting Second Line of Defense "review and challenge" activities and escalation, employing independent testing, as appropriate.
• Support the ongoing development and implementation of strategic plans and objectives, and regulatory changes.
• Support other risk disciplines in risk identification, mitigation, and reporting.
• Execute data-driven monitoring activities using appropriate analytical techniques…