The cost of managing compliance doesn’t change based on the size of an organization. Whether the organization employs 10 or 10,000 people, the fines associated with non-compliance are the same. In a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, it was stated that the average cost for organizations that experience non-compliance issues is estimated to be $14.82 million. For a smaller organization, this could be devastating.
Motusbank, while smaller than its parent company Meridian credit union in terms of deposits, staff and budgets, they still have to follow the same compliance process. For Mark, this means having to do more with a lot less.
For a small team to effectively oversee the compliance process of 27 individual business units, motusbank employs a decentralized approach, requiring each business unit to be aware of its own regulations, do its own risk assessments and implement its own controls.
This leads to a number of challenges: each business unit has its own specialty, like human resources, sales, etc., and none are compliance experts. In addition, many of them dread the idea of using a complicated enterprise software solution. They specifically asked for a solution that is easy to use and will help with efficiencies.
This led to Mark needing a solution that enables anyone, not just subject-matter experts, to capture complete and accurate data. He also needed a system that makes the process easy by guiding the user through a clearly defined process.
“The adoption of Resolver was painless. The users realized very quickly that it was not like other complex systems, the self-explanatory data-driven forms reduced the training time to just two hours and onboarding new employees now takes about 10 minutes,” he said.