Manager, Process and Controls - Education Savings

Process and Controls - Education Savings

This job manages day-to-day operational activities and compliance-related controls supporting education savings plans, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant handling of specialized savings and incentive programs. The role serves as a checkpoint for sensitive account activity, customer communications, and regulatory matters, requiring the individual to research, document, escalate, and resolve issues independently once assigned. Work spans multiple operational functions — including promotional programs, fraud prevention, anti-money laundering, privacy, and complaint tracking — and requires close coordination with legal, compliance, and risk partners.
Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Oversees the day-to-day administration of specialized education savings and incentive programs, including matching grant and promotional savings initiatives, ensuring required reporting is completed accurately and large or unusual transactions are properly reviewed and resolved
• Reviews account activity across multiple data sources to identify items exceeding established thresholds, escalating and documenting findings in accordance with applicable policies
• Creates and maintains tracking logs and internal SharePoint sites supporting fraud prevention, AML, privacy, and complaint escalation functions
• Evaluates and tests internal processes and systems, and coordinates the documentation, approval, and communication of new or updated policies and procedures
• Partners with legal, compliance, and risk teams to ensure sensitive items and transactions are researched, escalated, and processed in accordance with regulatory requirements
• Maintains and updates client account forms, coordinates statement messaging and production schedules, and conducts annual reviews of legal disclosures included in customer communications
• Responds to vendor inquiries and customer complaints, ensuring timely research, documentation, and resolution, and monitors work queues daily to maintain accuracy and adherence to procedure

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 3+ Years Required; 5+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
7IC

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of business management experience in financial services
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF tools
• Familiarity with AI tools, such as ChatGPT and Copilot
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills (written as well as verbal)

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of business management experience in financial services
• Transfer agency (record keeping) experience in financial services strongly preferred
• Prior experience with 529 products

Anticipated Posting End Date:

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.  In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans). 

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Company Overview

Every worker deserves a secure retirement. For more than 100 years, TIAA has delivered it for millions of people. Founded to help educators retire with dignity, today weʼre a market-leading retirement company fueled by world-class asset management. But weʼre not just another legacy financial services firm. Weʼre fighting harder than ever before for our clients and the many Americans who need us.

Our Culture of Impact

At TIAA, we're on a mission to build on our 100+ year legacy of delivering for our clients while evolving to meet tomorrow's challenges. We equip our associates with future-focused skills and AI tools that enable us to advance our mission. Together, we are fighting to ensure a more secure financial future for all and for generations to come. We are guided by our values: Champion Our People, Be Client Obsessed, Lead with Integrity, Own It, and Win As One. They influence every decision we make and how we work together to serve our clients every day. We thrive in a collaborative in-office environment where teams work across organizational boundaries with shared purpose, accelerating innovation and delivering meaningful results. Our workplace brings together TIAA and Nuveen's entrepreneurial spirit, where we work hard and work together to create lasting impact. Here, every associate can grow through meaningful learning experiences and development pathways—because when our people succeed, our impact on clients' lives grows stronger.

Benefits and Total Rewards

The organization is committed to making financial well-being possible for its clients, and is equally committed to the well-being of our associates. That’s why we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to make a positive difference in the lives of our associates and their loved ones. Our benefits include a superior retirement program and highly competitive health, wellness and work life offerings that can help you achieve and maintain your best possible physical, emotional and financial well-being. To learn more about your benefits, please review our Benefits Summary.

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