Matthew Conover Email & Phone Number

Remote First, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Led a global team in the assessment and management of regulatory risk associated with conflicts of interest, market abuse, insider trading, personal securities trading, whistleblower, and remuneration. - Restructured global team to instill accountability for all aspects of the centralized control environments. Following transformation, operational backlogs have been eliminated, service level agreements are consistently achieved, technology was upgraded, and known issues have been remediated.- Led extensive redesign and rewrite of global policies and standards to simplify requirements, enhance high impact content, and improve employee understanding of policy requirements resulting in an 20% reduction in related violations YoY, and a material improvement in every culture of compliance metric as measured in the annual employee survey. - Member of various executive level governance/ steering committees and working groups while leading a multi-year enterprise-wide culture initiative overseen by the Board of Directors.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Head of Compliance Program Methodology for State Street, responsible for developing and implementing the firm’s comprehensive programs for identifying, assessing, monitoring and reporting on compliance risk. Compliance Methodology serves as the go-to experts for second line of defense program management and represents the Compliance Department on various strategic initiatives impacting the firm.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Led a remote team of 10+ in the execution of North America Compliance Oversight Program and consulted regularly on-site on operational and regulatory issues with compliance and business leadership teams in the Cayman Islands, Bahamas, UK, Channel Islands, Ireland, Luxembourg, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Served as Compliance Lead (CCO) and board member to 10+ legal entity boards in US, Canada, and Caribbean.- Collaborated with management to develop and implement strategy to establish a high performing and scaled global compliance organization resulting in the hiring of 20+ regionally focused compliance officers.- Led response to intensive regulatory exam. Applied lessons learned to establish a first-of-its-kind regulatory relationship management program which contributed to improving the relationship with global regulators.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Manager for Global Compliance Operations Strategy and Transformation Team responsible for strategic planning, project management, and effective implementation of Compliance Transformation initiatives. - Supported the centralization of functional compliance teams, establishing low-cost centers in Bangalore, leading to a reduction in headcount while improving process documentation, standardization, and client satisfaction.- Responsible for the management of the Compliance Professional Development Program. A first-of-it's kind global job rotation program designed to recruit and develop high potential individuals for impactful roles within the global Compliance organization.

Boston, Ma, Us

Led the development and implementation of SSgA’s regulatory risk assessment model. Worked with SSgA CCO to lead groups of SSgA Compliance personnel in risk assessment workshops in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific to create projects and initiatives to mitigate key regulatory risks.

Boston, Ma, Us

Performed compliance program reviews and testing at SSgA and at numerous investment advisers as a member of the Controls & Testing team, the sub advisor oversight team and various due diligence teams.

Chicago, Il, Us

Participated in an anti-money laundering remediation at retail bank, an insider trading investigation at technology firm, acquisition due diligence at an energy company, and various compliance program implementations.

London, Gb

Bs, Finance

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)