By: Deanna Wachsmuth, Managing Director – Risk and Compliance

Wilhelmina Wachter, CRCM, CFE, formerly Compliance Director, has been announced as SC+S’ new Managing Director – Compliance Services. “Willy” is an accomplished risk management and compliance professional with over 30 years of regulatory experience and expertise. She is responsible for the quality of our compliance services delivery and directly supervises all of our SC+S compliance consultants. She is instrumental in the development of risk assessments, implementation and upkeep of the various compliance audit programs and provides “best practice” webinars to our client base regarding regulatory changes and hot topics.

She is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) and recently became a Certified Fraud Examiner demonstrating the knowledge and experience with fraudulent financial transactions, fraud prevention and deterrence, fraud risk assessments and the legal elements of fraud and fraud investigation.

Willy has more than 17 years of experience working in community bank lending and compliance positions. She was a VP of Residential and Consumer Lending, as well as a Compliance Officer, BSA Officer, and Security Officer. She has strong expertise in all areas of consumer regulatory compliance, including CRA, HMDA, Flood, and Fair Lending, as well as BSA/AML.

SC+S is very excited to have Ms. Wachter in this new role.