Compliance Assurance Partner

The Compliance Assurance Partner (AP) is primary accountable for delivery an Assurance activity and conduct investigation for your responsible market and support GCI in Global Investigations providing the local market business expertise. As an AP, you are required to shirting the mind set of traditional focus from monitoring to provision of proactive assurance activities to independently evaluator of marketing company, site and unit. Your will also be accountable for highlight risk areas that will be determined bases on your analysis and suggest remediation plans in Local Compliance Committee Meeting or any other agreed forums and provide real- time insights of monitoring and investigations to Leadership. Further you will need strong working relationships with Compliance Business Partners, the broader Sustainability team and the business.
As an Assurance Partner, you will be a member of Global Compliance Risk and Assurance Team. Reporting directly to Regional Assurance Lead. The function operates regionally with the Regional Assurance leads reporting to the Head of Global Compliance Risk & Assurance. Each Assurance Partner delivers assurance work for a cluster of countries.

As Assurance Role:
• To develop Assurance form to respond to risks that has been identified if the form is not yet exist.
• Ensuring the Assurance Plans are responsive to risk signals rather than static annal documents, focus on risk-based activities, all relevant stakeholders’ feedbacks are sought regularly and drives area of focus.
• Review of data drives focus on high-risk activities/areas and be flexible to adjust the plan in a timely manager (if needed).
• Deliver Global assigned Assurance Activities as agreed in timely manager in line with agreed timeframes and drive globally aligned remediation initiatives to address non-compliant areas.
• Be strategic when conduct the local Assurance Activities, tailored to the specific risk of the markets/unit. To use the right assurance approach for the risk/environment not a one size fits all approach.
• Be creative and flexible to think out of the box to “look beyond the form” and promptly adjust if changes are needed based on issues/observations identify.
• Proactive to routinely utilize Assurance Insight to enhanced analytical approached to review and identify red flags/risk areas.
• Record and report all relevant assurance activities in the relevant data repository in timely
• Timely shared meaningful insights with practical recommendations to business and relevant stakeholder to drive positive changes/ improvement opportunities
• Relevant stakeholders are consulted to ensure assurance recommendations are practical and aligned with business expectations and have been developed through careful analysis of assurance findings and the risks associated with them

As Investigation Role:
• Plan, organize, and conduct end to end compliance investigation (local) and support Global Investigation of cases reported through the available channels provided by the company like AZethics, HR, Line Manager, Legal, Global Compliance etc. in accordance with Investigation Standard, ensuring case close out in timely.
• Effectively communicate the nature, status, and outcomes of relevant investigations to senior stakeholders in Regional Investigations, Global Compliance, Legal, HR and/or line management, as required
• Conduct root-cause analysis of substantiated violations and the development of corrective actions as well as recommendations to prevent future violations. Ensure discipline is proportionate and globally aligned
• Record all findings, results and data related to compliance investigation including disseminate final report, document all relevant information in AZethics.
• Provide local language support to support the GCI investigation (if required)

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Closing Date

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