# Regulatory Associate

> World Business Lenders, LLC · Ankara, Turkey (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-24

**Workplace:** remote

## Description

**Overview**

-    World Business Lenders (WBL) is a privately held portfolio lender specializing in real estate-secured business loans for underserved businesses. WBL operates with a fully remote, multinational workforce and an experienced executive leadership team.
-   Typically, the work schedule is from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, though additional hours may be required based on business needs.

**About the Role**

-   WBL is seeking a Regulatory Associate to support regulatory research, change management, licensing, filings, disclosure requirements, examinations, and regulatory reporting. This role will help maintain a clear inventory of obligations affecting WBL's lending, servicing, and corporate activities and coordinate timely implementation across the business.

**What Success Looks Like** 

-   Keeps regulatory obligations, changes, licenses, filings, and deadlines accurate and current.
-   Converts research into clear summaries, assigned actions, and documented implementation evidence.
-   Supports complete and timely regulatory submissions and examination responses.
-   Escalates unclear, high-risk, or overdue matters to the Team Lead promptly.

**What You'll Be Doing (Core Responsibilities)**

-   **Regulatory Research and Change Management**

-   Research applicable federal and state requirements affecting WBL's lending, servicing, and corporate operations.
-   Monitor legal and regulatory developments involving usury, licensing, disclosures, and related obligations.
-   Prepare clear summaries of changes, affected business processes, effective dates, and recommended next steps for review by the Team Lead or legal counsel.
-   Update the regulatory obligations inventory and track assigned implementation actions through completion.

-   **Licensing, Filings, and Examinations**

-   Maintain licensing, registration, renewal, filing, and reporting calendars and supporting documentation.
-   Coordinate information collection and preparation of applications, renewals, reports, certifications, and other submissions.
-   Support regulatory examinations, inquiries, and responses by organizing requests, owners, evidence, drafts, approvals, and deadlines.
-   Maintain accurate, audit-ready records of submissions, approvals, correspondence, and follow-up commitments.

-   **Business and Policy Support**

-   Assist with regulatory reviews of new products, processes, vendors, and jurisdictional expansion.
-   Compare requirements against current policies, procedures, disclosures, and operational practices and identify potential gaps.
-   Coordinate with Legal, Operations, Lending, Servicing, Finance, and other teams to gather facts and implementation evidence.
-   Support updates to policies, procedures, guidance, training materials, and regulatory reference tools.

-   **Reporting and Process Improvement**

-   Prepare status reports on regulatory changes, licensing, filings, examinations, and outstanding actions.
-   Identify approaching deadlines, incomplete records, conflicting information, and overdue actions for escalation.
-   Maintain standardized research files, trackers, checklists, templates, and workflows.
-   Protect confidential and privileged information and follow documented quality-control requirements.

## Requirements

-   **Education**

-   Bachelor's degree in law, legal studies, compliance, finance, business, public policy, or a related field.
-   Paralegal training, JD coursework, or a compliance or regulatory credential is preferred but not required.  
    

-   **Required Experience**

-    **2+ years** of experience in regulatory compliance, legal research, licensing, risk, audit, or financial-services operations.
-   Experience researching rules, maintaining regulatory calendars, preparing filings, or supporting examinations is preferred.
-   Ability to summarize complex requirements clearly and distinguish confirmed requirements from items requiring legal review.
-   Strong organization, writing, documentation, and deadline-management skills.

**Preferred Background / Industry Experience**

-   Financial services, commercial lending, private lending, banking, fintech, specialty finance, mortgage lending, or another highly regulated industry.

**Specific Technical Skills Needed**

-   Federal and state regulatory research.
-   Regulatory change, obligations, licensing, and filing trackers.
-   Examination and information-request coordination.
-   Microsoft Office and legal, compliance, or regulatory research systems.

**Key Competencies**

-   Research discipline
-   Analytical thinking
-   Clear writing
-   Attention to detail
-   Follow-through
-   Sound escalation judgment  
    

**Remote Work Requirements**

-   Stable, reliable internet connection.
-   Professional and dedicated remote working setup.
-   Ability to work effectively across a remote, multinational organization and maintain confidentiality.

## Benefits

**What We Offer**

💰 **Compensation** in USD.

🏖️ **Benefits** include paid time off (PTO).

🌍 **Work Environment:** Fully remote work environment.

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