Senior Compliance Manager - Corporate Trust & Custody Services (Hybrid - See Job Description for Listed Locations)

Location: Hybrid role requiring in-office work four days a week in Buffalo, NY; Metro NYC; Wilmington, DE; or Boston, MA.

Salary: $157,400.00–$262,300.00 annual USD

Company

M&T Bank is a banking organization providing corporate trust, custody, agency, fiduciary, and related institutional services.

What you will do

• Provide independent second-line compliance and operational risk oversight across Corporate Trust, Custody, Agency Services, Escrow Services, Loan Agency, Securities Administration, Collateral Administration, and fiduciary activities.
• Evaluate inherent and residual risks, control effectiveness, risk acceptances, remediation activities, and emerging regulatory, operational, compliance, and conduct risks.
• Lead risk and control self-assessments, compliance and operational risk assessments, KRIs, issue management, change risk assessments, event reviews, third-party risk reviews, and scenario analysis support.
• Develop and present risk reporting to business leadership, risk committees, and senior management.
• Monitor risk trends, control issues, loss events, KRIs, and regulatory developments, escalating material issues through governance processes.
• Partner with business leaders, Legal, Audit, Enterprise Risk, Compliance Testing, and Operations while mentoring risk professionals and improving risk frameworks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and 10 years of experience in compliance, legal, audit, risk, or another relevant function; alternatively, 14 combined years of higher education and work experience including 10 relevant years.
• Minimum of 5 years of managerial or supervisory experience.
• Experience overseeing compliance and operational risk programs, including risk assessments, control reviews, issue remediation, governance reporting, and regulatory engagement.
• Ability to work in a hybrid arrangement with in-office attendance four days per week at one of the listed U.S. locations.

Nice to have

• Corporate Trust, Custody, and Agency Services experience, preferably in a second-line-of-defense role.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time managerial position with responsibility for staffing, performance evaluations, promotions, salary recommendations, performance management, and terminations.
• Market-informed annual compensation of $157,400.00–$262,300.00 USD.
• Collaborative work with business leadership, enterprise risk partners, compliance teams, auditors, Legal, and Operations.