AVP Compliance and Audit Manager (Enterprise Risk & Investor Compliance)

About Us:

The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) believes stable and sustainable affordable housing is the foundation of strong communities and we strive to contribute to comprehensive neighborhood revitalization through our lending and partnerships. A nationally recognized leader in affordable housing finance, CPC has provided a consistent source of capital to underserved housing markets throughout New York State since our inception in 1974.

Today, CPC stands as the largest CDFI solely committed to investing in multifamily housing, having invested more than $15 billion to finance the creation and preservation of more than 230,000 units of quality housing in neighborhoods across New York State and beyond. CPC has a robust construction lending platform, a mortgage bank, and equity and impact investment platforms that focus on our three goals: Expanding Affordable Housing, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap and Investing in the Green Economy.

As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work on impactful projects that make a real difference in people's lives. We're looking for talented individuals who are passionate about our mission and share our values of commitment, respect, excellence, accountability, and collaboration.

Role Summary:

The AVP Compliance and Audit Manager provide enterprise-wide leadership for CPC’s compliance, audit readiness, and risk management programs across CPC’s entities, businesses, and functions. This role manages the compliance and audit strategy, leads internal and external audits end-to-end, advises senior leadership on key risk trends and remediation priorities, and builds scalable monitoring, documentation, and training programs to ensure ongoing adherence to investor, program, and enterprise requirements.

What You’ll Do:

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Partner cross‐functionally and across CPC’s entities, businesses and functions to continuously evolve a compliance program that ensures:

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Adherence to enterprise-level processes and procedures as required by relevant investors, program agreements, etc.

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Adaptation to changes in the legal, cybersecurity and industry landscapes.

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Identification and escalation of compliance risks.

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Provide ongoing oversight and review of investor and program requirements, manage updates to compliance policies and procedures, and coordinate with functional owners to ensure consistency.

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Create a consistent monitoring program for guidance documents that range from a few to as many as multi-thousands of pages in size, and which may be static for a defined period or iterate on an ongoing basis.

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Lead cross-functional working groups internally, creating and implementing project plans to ensure new requirements are met and that processes and procedures are documented, complementary, efficient and compliant.

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Create and implement an internal audit program, whereby key processes and procedures are tested on a rotating basis.

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Manage relevant annual audits and/or compliance requirements by external parties, leading coordination of in person visits where required, collection and distribution of responses, provision of documentation and resolution of identified issues.

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Manage a minimum of five audits or compliance processes on annual basis.

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Frequency and intensity of audits will vary depending on investor and partner-driven timelines and will include cross-functional internal controls testing that will be ongoing throughout any given year.

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Proactively and independently identify and resolve timeline and documentation provision issues for individual audits.

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Effectively and professionally communicate concerns, issues and opportunities related to the annual requirements internally and externally.

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Maintain a macro view of compliance and risk mitigation requests and best practices across CPC’s investors and partners, and:

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Escalate relevant trends to leadership

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Propose and implement responses that simplify redundant requests

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Manage audits on aggregate and outside of specific audit events; responsible for driving remediation outcomes on a rolling and ad hoc basis.

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Own end‑to‑end strategy and execution for in‑person reviews, including agenda setting, executive preparation, materials quality control, stakeholder alignment, and logistics oversight; ensure seamless day‑of execution (space, technology, access), delegating logistics as appropriate while remaining accountable for outcomes and stakeholder experience.

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As CPC pursues new programs and/or investor opportunities, frame operational impact for the compliance function by participating in stand-up meetings, submitting registrations/contributing to applications and/or performing document reviews. Complete or coordination completion of, and manage submission or distribution of certifications, investor forms or other compliance documentation on an annual or other cadence as required.

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Oversee vendor risk management program, including overseeing completion of relevant due diligence,