Compliance Analyst - ON SITE

Job Summary: Assist Compliance Officer with daily compliance duties and serve as back-up for other Compliance Department employees. The Compliance Analyst is responsible for assisting in the development, implementation, and monitoring and maintenance of a compliance program designed to ensure that each functional area of the Bank achieves and maintains compliance with all applicable banking laws, regulations, and regulatory agency issuances.

Essential Functions:

• Performs periodic tests of transactions and procedures to ensure the effectiveness of the compliance program.
• Assists in developing, administering and monitoring programs that ensure the financial institution’s compliance with laws, regulations and rules governing operations and product offerings.
• Assists in researching federal and state banking laws and regulations, review the financial institution’s policies and procedures, and ensure financial institution compliance with laws and regulations.
• Helps the Compliance Officer schedule meetings with departments and supervisors, as necessary, to provide information on compliance changes that affect them.
• Assists in scheduling compliance audits of Southside Bank and supplying information to the Board of Directors.
• Maintains confidentiality of all sensitive Bank information.
• Maintains a positive and caring atmosphere for customers and employees consistent with Southside Bank’s mission, CORE Values, and Blue Book culture guide.
• Provides enthusiastic, professional, and courteous service to Southside Bank customers and employees.
• Participates in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
• Understands and agrees to abide by the policies and procedures established at Southside Bank.
• Responsible for complying with audit policies and procedures as they pertain to this position.
• Performs duties in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including but not limited to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and related anti-money laundering laws, and in accordance with the Bank’s Information Security Program.
• Must comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

Additional Functions:

• Performs routine duties with minimal supervision using standard practices or procedures.
• Complies with all safety policies, practices, and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources.
• Performs additional duties, as assigned or directed. 

Required Education/Experience:

• High School diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) preferred. 

Necessary Skills:

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to add, subtract multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Intermediate personal computer skills, including electronic mail, routine database activity, word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.

Physical Activity/Dexterity: 

• Manual dexterity sufficient to reach/handle items and work with fingers. Works with fingers and perceives attributes of objects and materials.

Physical Environment Demands:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 90% of the time.
• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to visit other offices, conference rooms, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and telephone.
• Constantly positions self to operate on a computer.
• The person in this position frequently communicates with other people throughout each day. Must be able to exchange accurate information when conversing.

Working Conditions/Environment:

• Well-lighted, heated and/or air-conditioned indoor office setting with adequate ventilation.
• Moderate noise (e.g. business office with computers and printers, light traffic).

Work Schedule/Hours:

• Monday through Friday; 8:00am – 5:00pm.
• Available for overtime, as necessary.

Southside Bank uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees.