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The Compliance Officer is responsible for:
- Ensuring the business adheres to all relevant legislation, regulations, and user group rules including but not limited to relevant regulators and all relevant industry best practice;
- Testing and assessing compliance across the business ; and
- Ensuring any required Compliance changes are successfully implemented into the business.
Working with the Compliance Manager; EMEA, the role is also responsible for the delivery of a robust compliance and governance function which is underpinned by the Global Compliance Management Program (CMP).
Scope of Role
Reporting to the Compliance Manager; EMEA, the Compliance Officer is responsible for:
- Operational Compliance (including oversight),
- Oversight, testing and logging of compliance issues, and
- Delivering Compliance change
Key result Areas
- Accountability
- Ensuring the business is provided with compliance advice and support;
- Be the first point of escalation for any compliance related incidents;
- Working with operational business to test and assess their compliance risk against the CMP;
- Keeping the Compliance Manager; EMEA informed of the compliance risks across the business and the actions being taken to mitigate these risks;
- Understand how regulation applies to the business; and in particular in relation to new regulatory announcements, communicate the change (and oversee implementation) to any impacted areas;
- Understand the impact and any risks associated with potential change, ensure the Global Risk Management framework is considered and utilised, as necessary;
- Complete compliance due diligence for all business acquisitions;
- Where appropriate, successfully lead the delivery of change within any new business acquisitions.
2. Policies and procedural responsibility
- Responsible for effectively delivering CMP across the business within an agreed timeframe;
- Ensure compliance queries are managed effectively;
- Ensuring a product development and approval process is developed and embedded within the business;
- Manage and oversee compliance support for business projects;
- Development and delivery of a robust reporting process to the Compliance Manager; EMEA, which comprehensively demonstrates the level of compliance risk mapped against CMP;
- Ensure compliance mandatory training is completed across the business in a timely manner;
- Develop (where necessary) and deliver face-to-face compliance training;
- Ensure policies and procedures in relation to oversight are written and regularly maintained;
- Establish and deliver and report on a Compliance Review and Testing Programme;
- Liaise with the Global Risk Management and Global Internal Audit to ensure that any compliance risks/ actions/ recommendations that they have recorded are inputted into the programme and remediated where appropriate;
- Ensure Global Policies (incl. Anti-corruption) are embedded and understood locally
- Manage the Compliance Incident Reporting process and post-incident reviews;
- Provide comprehensive reporting of issues and incidents to Compliance Manager; EMEA.
3. Advice and guidance
- Provide compliance support to the business on queries, projects, acquisitions, product developments, bids and tenders;
- Liaise directly with clients on any compliance related matters as and when required by the business;
Required Experience / Qualification
- An understanding of the regulatory environment in which a CRA/data organisation operates;
- Experience in a compliance oversight type role is preferred although not essential;
- Experience of incident management is preferred although not essential;
- Experience of developing processes and writing reports to a high standard;
- Experience in dealing with and reporting on compliance risks & issues;
- Some knowledge and experience of developing and implementing compliance governance frameworks;
- Good knowledge and experience of the practical application of relevant laws/regulations especially Data Protection/Privacy;
- Experience of developing processes and writing reports to a high standard;
- Experience of presenting to senior leadership (up to Director-level);
- Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline;
- Knowledge of GDPR;
- Regional understanding of data protection requirements across Nordic region;
- Interaction with data protection regulators
Required Skills
- Fluent in (written & oral) English as well as Norwegian;
- Strong communicator at all levels with experience of working with management and external stakeholders;
- Strong relationship management skills will help facilitate a pro-active and effective compliance-to-business relationship;
- Good risk based judgement skills including the ability to assess compliance risks appropriately with commercial needs;
- Intuitive self-starter with the ability to prioritise workloads effectively for themselves and their Team;
- To be recognised as a role model who leads, solves problems and inspires
- Fully embraces Experian Global behaviours;
- Ability to rapidly assimilate and interpret information covering a wide range of diverse business areas and the associated risks/regulations;
- Capable of evaluating the impact of risks and breaches;
- Excellent attention to detail;
- Ability to manage own time and work to tight deadlines;
- Thorough planning and organisational skills;
- Ability to work well independently or as part of a Regional team;
- Strong written communicator with good attention to detail;
- Excellent influencing/negotiation skills;
- (International travel will be required from time-to-time)
Additional Information
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