External Compliance

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Regulatory Intelligence and Interpretation:

• Monitor, analyze, and interpret changes in laws, regulations, and regulatory guidance relevant to the company’s businesses.
• Assess changes in regulations for applicability, impact, and compliance obligations, translating them into clear and actionable requirements, focusing on governance and reducing risk
• Maintain structured regulatory intelligence outputs to support consistent understanding across the organization.

2. Compliance Framework and Obligation Management

• Develop, maintain, and update Compliance Obligation Lists (COLs) across all operating entities and business lines.
• Ensure regulatory requirements are accurately reflected in internal policies, procedures, and operational controls across the organizations’ diverse businesses.
• Support the integration of standardized compliance requirements into business processes across locations and functions.

3. Monitoring, Verification and Review

• Monitor compliance performance through structured reporting, reviews, and thematic assessments.
• Conduct reviews and targeted investigations into actual practices to verify alignment with regulatory and internal compliance requirements.
• Identify gaps, weaknesses, or inconsistencies between documented procedures and real-world execution.

4. Risk Assessment and Escalation

• Assess the risk of non-compliance, regulatory breaches, or misconduct across business activities in all locations.
• Prepare clear, evidence-based findings, risk assessments, and recommendations for senior management and relevant governance bodies.
• Track remediation actions to completion and assess the effectiveness of corrective measures.

5. Business Engagement and Oversight:

• Act as a compliance partner to business functions, providing guidance on regulatory requirements while maintaining independence of judgment.
• Support compliance oversight in key risk areas, including procurement, third-party relationships, gifts and hospitality, and stakeholder interactions.
• Promote consistent application of regulatory standards across all areas of operation.

6. Compliance Training and Awareness Building:

• Deliver targeted compliance training and updates to enhance regulatory awareness and execution discipline.
• Contribute to building a culture of regulatory awareness, accuracy, and accountability.

Qualifications and Experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Law, Auditing, Internal Audit, Compliance, or a related discipline.
2. 5+ years of relevant experience in regulatory compliance, audit, or industry regulatory functions, preferably within large or multinational organizations.
3. Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks and the practical application of compliance requirements in operational environments.
4. Demonstrated ability to conduct structured reviews, assess compliance risks, and document findings with precision.
5. High standards of analytical rigor, attention to detail, and documentation discipline.
6. Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and maintain objectivity when addressing sensitive issues.
7. Fluency in English and the ability to operate confidently in multinational and cross-cultural environments.
8. Awareness of international best practices and regulatory expectations.

Personal Attributes

• Strong sense of professional integrity and responsibility.
• Careful, methodical, and disciplined in approach.
• Comfortable questioning assumptions and verifying compliance in practice.
• Calm and resilient when addressing regulatory issues or potential non-compliance.
• Willing to raise concerns early and escalate matters appropriately through established procedural and governance channels.