FC Global Services India LLP (First Citizens India), a part of First Citizens BancShares, Inc., a top 20 U.S. financial institution, is a global capability center (GCC) based in Bengaluru. Our India-based teams benefit from the company's over 125-year legacy of strength and stability. First Citizens India is responsible for delivering value and managing risks for our lines of business. We are particularly proud of our strong, relationship-driven culture and our long-term approach, which are deeply ingrained in our talented workforce. This is evident across all key areas of our operations, including Technology, Enterprise Operations, Finance, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, and Credit Administration. We are seeking talented individuals to join us in our mission of providing solutions fit for our clients greatest ambitions.
Job Description
Value Preposition
Contribute to creating a culture of compliance where ethics and integrity are a critical part of what we do every day.
Job Details
Position Title: Lead Advisor - Compliance
Career Level: P3
Job Category: Manager
Role Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Bangalore
About The Team
The Regulatory Obligations Management team (ROT) operates as an independent compliance function within the Bank's broader Compliance Risk Management framework. The team is responsible for interpreting, creating, maintaining regulatory obligations from a comprehensive regulatory inventory, and ensuring obligations are appropriately mapped to applicable business units, risk taxonomy elements, and supporting controls.
The team partners closely with Compliance Advisory, Business Risk & Controls (BR&C), Internal Audit, and other second-line compliance stakeholders to promote consistent interpretation of regulatory requirements and to support enterprise-wide compliance governance. Through structured obligation management, the function warrants effective regulatory change management, risk identification, and sustainable compliance execution.
Impact
This position is responsible for executing and sustaining the Compliance Risk Management Program of the Bank's Regulatory Obligations Management Program. The position ensures that regulatory requirements are accurately interpreted, documented as discrete obligations, and aligned to business applicability, risk taxonomy, and control frameworks.
By providing centralized obligation oversight, this role supports proactive compliance risk identification, reduces regulatory interpretation risk, and strengthens audit and examination readiness. The role plays a critical part in enabling transparency and consistency across the compliance lifecycle to ensure the Bank is adhering to all applicable rules, regulations, and standards.
Key Deliverables
Regulatory Obligation Identification & Maintenance
- Analyze new and existing laws, rules and regulations from our Regulatory Inventory partners to identify applicable regulatory obligations
- Draft clear, standardized obligation statements that accurately reflect regulatory intent and supervisory expectations
- Maintain the inventory by ensuring obligations remain current, complete, and traceable to authoritative sources.
Obligation Applicability & Risk Alignment
- Determine business unit applicability for regulatory obligations in collaboration with Compliance Advisory partners
- Map obligations to the enterprise risk taxonomy, including compliance risk themes and sub-risks, to support risk identification and assessment processes.
- Support integration of obligations into related governance processes, including MIRA, risk assessments, and regulatory change management
Control Mapping & Oversight Support
- Partner with Compliance Advisory, Business Risk and Controls, and business stakeholders to map regulatory obligations to existing controls and processes, where applicable
- Identify potential gaps, redundancies, or inconsistencies between obligations and controls and escalate observations through appropriate governance channels
Continuous Improvement & BAU Execution
- Contribute to the development and refinement of obligation management standards and quality control procedures.
- Partner with Regulatory Inventory and Regulation Change Management to support new or amended regulations along with ongoing maintenance activities as part of BAU operations.
- Participate in special projects or enhancements related to regulation obligation tools (e.g., Regology) and operating model evolution.
- Compliance Expertise - Maintains a strong knowledge of current or changing laws, regulations, requirements, policies, and procedures that affect assigned area of the Bank. Serves as a resource to management and associates on compliance-related matters.
Functional Skills
Skills and Qualification
- Experience and understanding, including assessment of risks and controls, a minimum of 8+ with a financial services organization.
- Strong organization skills, attention to detail, and communication skills for collaboration, reporting, and documentation of obligations.
- Ability to work independently or with a team, meet deadlines, and pivot as priorities shift.
- Ability to identify and provide feedback regarding process improvements and potential risks.
- Proficiency in Governance, Risk, Compliance Systems
Technical/Business Skills
- Experience in Compliance, Legal, Audit, Regulatory Compliance Management Banking, or related field.
- General knowledge of consumer and commercial banking business, as well as the relevant regulations for Large Financial Institutions (e.g., for investments/securities, lending, deposits, payments, banking operations, foreign exchange, payments and channels, and data privacy)
- Experience in creating obligation requirements from laws, rules and regulations within the banking industry.
- Experience of working in one of the three lines of defense within a financial services organization.
- Great organizational skills plus strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Relationships & Collaboration
- Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with business partners through strong communication and a proactive approach to problem solving and identifying risks.
Accessibility Needs
We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you require accommodations at any stage (e.g. application, interviews, onboarding) please let us know, and we will work with you to ensure a seamless experience.
Equal Employment Opportunity
FC Global Services India LLP (First Citizens India) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment and prohibit all forms of discrimination on the basis of gender, religion, caste, disability, sexual orientation, economic status or any other characteristics protected by the law. We strive to foster a safe and respectful environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Our EEO policy ensures fairness throughout the employee life cycle. 
