Compliance Specialist

Our client, who is one of America's largest and most diversified midstream energy companies is seeking a Compliance Analyst Specialist to join their team.

This position is in the office and is located in Downtown Houston. (Parking is free)

To qualify for this long term Contract position, you must have a Bachelor's Degree and have a strong compliance background.

• The client will be looking for experience in third party due diligence handling in the Oil and Gas industry.
• You must also have a minimum 2+ years in compliance or similar function (e.g. audit, risk, QA).
  
  

Core Responsibilities:

Anti-Corruption and Trade Compliance Program:

• Conduct reviews of third parties

• Assist with conducting internal and external investigations pertaining to foreign compliance issues

• Support legal counsel in research and advice to key stakeholders within Asia on compliance risks

• Support the design, implementation and continuous enhancement of the anti-corruption compliance program

• Focus on activities in emerging risk markets, high compliance risk locations and high compliance risk transactions

Gift & Entertainment Program Management:

• Act on and resolve domestic and international gift and entertainment requests in line with company policies and federal regulations

• Prepare quarterly updates and trend analysis for management

Regulatory Monitoring Program (U.S. & International):

• Assist in the in-house federal, state and local regulatory monitoring for the department

• Communicate changes to management and coordinate follow up discussions

• Research Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (?FERC?) regulatory orders and monitor proceedings of interest

• Compile and analyze regulatory orders, legal decisions or any decisions on hearings pertaining to the company?s business activities

Required Education and / or Experience:

• Bachelor?s Degree in Business Administration / Management (or Paralegal/Legal Studies Degree or related area.)

• Minimum 2+ years in Compliance or similar function (e.g. audit, risk, QA)

Required Skills:

• General understanding of the Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) trade sanctions and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)

• Working knowledge of the third party due diligence screening process, end-to-end

• Strong analytical, logical reasoning and problem solving skills with high attention to detail and accuracy

• Proactive individual with a team player, collaborative approach

• Strong organizational and communication skills (verbal and written)

• Proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, Word

Desired Skills:

• 2+ years in third party due diligence handling in the Oil and Gas industry.

• Experience with TINCheck, Nexis Diligence, Refinitiv World-Check One and Steele Securimate applications.

• Experience with SAP

• Experience preparing metrics for department

Hot Buttons:

• Must have a strong background in Compliance

• Proven experience effectively researching, writing, and interpreting policies to meet business requirements.

• Strong prioritization and multi-tasking skills for competing deadlines.

• Strong financial and analytical ability working with financial graphs and tables.

• Strong interpersonal skills and proven track record of building and maintaining solid business relationships with internal and external contacts Job Description: ? Lead the in-house research function and analytics reporting on compliance and data privacy matters.

• Assist department on unplanned privacy/cybersecurity matters.

• Conduct planned and unplanned compliance and legal research, develop compliance processes and deployment plans, collect, analyze and interpret compliance data to identify trends and potential gaps.

• Manage the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (?FCPA?) and Anti-corruption compliance transactional process and timely conduct anti-corruption and AML/Compliance Know-Your Customer (?KYC?) reviews of applicable business entities.

• Corporate compliance and privacy file management of records on SharePoint and FCPA database.

• Develop and lead trade compliance meetings, including compliance teleconferences and roundtable meetings.

• Develop compliance roundtable content and initial content for presentations to Board and Audit Committee and Compliance Committees.

• Assist in Compliance Policy Reviews for all compliance policies to meet regulatory guidance and coordinate compliance policy steering committee meetings for changes to compliance policies. Oversee the Compliance Policy & Procedure Management software.

• Administer all compliance applications and create and schedule recurring reports from compliance applications for compliance and additional stakeholders. Oversee service provider contract administration and rate analysis for existing and new compliance applications. Monitors and develop next steps and action plans on key compliance and ethics matters in order to highlight business sensitive matters that need to be addressed by the Chief Compliance Counsel.

• Lead compliance response filings as part of routine or unplanned audits.

• Prepare Quarterly publications and reports for dissemination.

• Prepare senior staffers for quarterly and annual compliance meetings.

• Assist department on project initiatives.
  
  
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Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 123863 when responding to this ad.