Pathward, N.A. - Public Policy Associate Senior

• Monitor, analyze, and summarize federal and state legislative and regulatory activity relevant to Pathward, including banking, payments, fintech, digital assets, bank-fintech partnerships, small business finance, rural development finance, and other issues affecting Pathward’s businesses. • Contributes to the development of Pathward’s state public policy capabilities, including tracking priority state legislative and regulatory developments, identifying emerging risks and opportunities across key jurisdictions, liaising with state trade associations and external consultants, and state-level advocacy and engagement as appropriate. • Drafts internal memoranda, issue summaries, briefing materials, talking points, leave-behinds, and other written materials that help inform Public Policy strategy, stakeholder engagement, and senior leadership decision-making. • Responsible for the administration of Pathward’s PAC, including tracking PAC activity and participation, preparing materials, supporting solicitations and events, maintaining records, coordinating with external vendors on filings and compliance-related processes, and supporting execution across Public Policy priorities. • Participate, as appropriate, in federal and state government, regulatory, trade association, coalition, PAC, and industry engagement, including meeting preparation, background research, agendas, follow-up notes, and related tracking. • Leverage systems and processes for tracking policy priorities, stakeholder engagement, lobbying activity, regulatory developments, consultant deliverables, invoices, expenses, reporting obligations, and follow-up items. • Plans events and other activities to support organization policy objectives. • Acts as an information resource for internal partners and external consultants to advance issue advocacy, internal reporting, stakeholder engagement, and execution across Public Policy priorities. • Frequent travel to perform role – Requires travel up to 25% of the time, including overnight and out of state. • Other duties as assigned. • Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience. • Typically, 5+ years with bachelor's or equivalent. • Competencies: • Ability to convey complex financial and technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences. • Thriving in rapidly changing regulatory, technological, and competitive environments. • Building and managing relationships with FinTech partners, vendors, and strategic clients. • Effectively working across technology, operations, compliance, legal, risk, and business teams. • The responsibilities listed above are not all inclusive and may be changed at any time.