Compliance Senior Director

Grant Thornton • Chicago, IL

14h • $187,000 - $270,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Grant Thornton is seeking a Compliance Senior Director to join the team. This role will focus on developing, enhancing, and managing a global compliance program for our expanding multi-national organization, with a particular emphasis on compliance related to sanctions, AML, anti-bribery and conflicts of interest as well as other regulatory areas relevant to professional services firms. In addition to laying the foundation of a global compliance function, this role will manage and continuously mature the operations of the U.S. compliance program together with a team located in the U.S. and India. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role that requires close partnerships with legal, risk, privacy, and other business teams. Grant Thornton has a hybrid work model, and colleagues are expected to work at minimum two days per week in their local office or from a client site.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Business Administration, or related field (Master’s or JD preferred).
• Certified compliance professional or legal background is required
• Proven experience as compliance professional or have a legal background; minimum 10+ years of experience
• Deep subject matter expertise in legal and compliance areas applicable to privately-held global organizations
• Well-versed in compliance program management, frameworks and best practices, and strong project execution skills
• Excellent writing and editing skills are mandatory, including preparing presentations and reporting packages
• Proven experience creating training content and producing training courses
• High ethical standards and ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with professionalism and maturity
• Methodical and diligent with outstanding planning and process improvement abilities

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in professional services industry a plus

Responsibilities

• Proactively managing identified risks and evaluating the effectiveness of ethics and compliance policies
• Researching new and existing laws, regulations, policies, and industry standards and identifying emerging compliance risks, performing risk assessments, and managing an enterprise compliance risk register in collaboration with other risk stakeholders
• Project managing cross-functional initiatives, developing remediation roadmaps to address compliance risks and implementing monitoring mechanisms to ensure regulatory adherence across the global enterprise.
• Promoting ethics and compliance as a top priority to the organization
• Creating ethics and compliance awareness training materials, including developing annual Code of Conduct training content
• Collaborating with the legal and other departments to monitor enforcement of policies, regulations and other standards
• Coordinating internal compliance risk assessments
• Developing and updating policies, procedures, and guidance based on prioritized needs and risk assessments
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance programs
• Employee assistance program
• Paid sick leave
• Paid firm holidays
• 401(k) savings plan
• Employee retirement plan
• Discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior