Compliance Specialist

Overview

As a Compliance Specialist, you will act as a subject matter expert in functional compliance, ensuring integrity and ethical practices across the organisation. You will build strong relationships internally and externally, offering guidance and support to colleagues while influencing business and process owners to strengthen their controls.

You will be responsible for integrating multiple project and programme timelines with varying objectives, ensuring compliance risks are effectively identified, managed, and mitigated. This role requires developing robust processes, policies, controls, and metrics to ensure alignment with relevant compliance standards and evolving regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and plan requirements with the team to drive compliance projects and processes through the full project lifecycle, ensuring successful outcomes.
• Validate recurring compliance reports, analyse metrics, and identify trends to evaluate programme effectiveness.
• Provide programme management support on compliance issues, driving initiatives from scoping to delivery.
• Conduct data analysis to identify key findings and recommendations, presenting outcomes clearly in writing and verbally to support decision-making.
• Identify opportunities for improvements in compliance policies and processes, and create action plans to address these gaps.
• Coordinate risk assessments to highlight key risks, prioritise programme efforts, and focus resources across the compliance function.
• Lead the development and delivery of compliance training programmes and communication strategies across multiple teams, ensuring consistency with company-wide standards.
• Oversee the execution of the controls framework, translating obligations from legal, regulatory, and internal policy requirements into practical controls and business processes.
• Support compliance integration for new markets by incorporating relevant requirements into existing frameworks and defining new controls where necessary.

Minimum Requirements

• Proven experience in risk assessments and control frameworks.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Effective stakeholder management experience.
• Background in developing and embedding new programmes and processes.
• Solid project management capability, with the ability to prioritise resources effectively.
• Experience in compliance and regulatory data analysis.
• Knowledge of evolving regulatory and compliance standards, with awareness of best practice.

Industry Context

This role sits within the construction sector, with a particular focus on project controls, cost management, and quantity surveying.

This role is open for a limited time. Next steps will be shared with shortlisted candidates ASAP. Due to the high volume of applicants, we may be unable to reply to each applicant individually. If you have not received a response, please assume that you have not been selected for progression to the next stage of the hiring process.