Assistant Manager - Internal Compliance

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Compliance Manager located in Chennai location.

The Internal Compliance Manager is responsible for driving enterprise-wide compliance governance, risk assessment, monitoring, and assurance activities across business functions. The role acts as a trusted advisor to business leaders, process owners, and value stream teams to identify compliance risks, strengthen control environments, and improve governance maturity.

This is an individual contributor role with no direct people management responsibilities and requires strong stakeholder management, compliance expertise, and analytical capabilities.  

Reports to the Senior Manager, and the role involves,

What a typical day looks like:

Compliance Governance & Oversight

• Execute the enterprise compliance framework across assigned business areas.
• Monitor regulatory, policy, and governance compliance requirements.
• Facilitate periodic compliance reviews and control assessments.
• Ensure alignment between corporate policies, operational processes, and compliance requirements.

Risk Assessment & Monitoring

• Conduct compliance risk assessments and identify emerging risks.
• Maintain compliance risk registers and track risk mitigation plans.
• Support development of risk-based compliance monitoring programs.
• Perform thematic reviews to identify control weaknesses and process gaps.

Internal Controls & Assurance

• Evaluate control design and operating effectiveness.
• Support SOX, SoD, policy compliance, and governance reviews.
• Align the findings/observations, and remediation plans.
• Monitor closure of corrective and preventive actions.

Reporting & Analytics

• Develop compliance dashboards and executive reports.
• Analyze compliance metrics, KRIs, KPIs, and trends.
• Provide periodic compliance updates to leadership and governance forums.
• compliance issues and emerging risks.

Business Partnership

• Global process Owners, Value Stream Leaders, Functional Leaders, and Site Leadership.
• Suggest process changes, transformations, initiatives from a compliance perspective.
• Provide practical compliance guidance to operational teams.

Compliance Program Management

• Support policy governance, training, awareness, and communication initiatives.
• Participate in investigations and special reviews when required.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the compliance program.

Audit & Assurance Support

• Coordinate internal and external audit requests.
• Support management responses and action plan tracking.
• Assist in audit readiness activities.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Bachelor's /master’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Risk Management, or related discipline.
• 7 -10 years of experience in Compliance, Internal Audit, Risk Management, Internal Controls, SOX, or Governance.
• Strong understanding of internal controls, governance frameworks, and compliance programs.
• Experience working within a multinational organization, Big4, GCC, or shared services environment preferred.
• Flexible to work in (8am – 5pm / 11am – 8pm)

 

Key Competencies

·         Compliance Governance

·         Enterprise Risk Management

·         Internal Controls & SOX

·         Compliance Monitoring

·         Audit & Assurance

·         Stakeholder Management

·         Data Analytics & Reporting

·         Business Partnering

·         Executive Communication

·         Problem Solving

Here are a few examples of what you will get for the great work you provide:

• Health Insurance
• PTO

NK99

Job Category

Finance

Required Skills:

Optional Skills:

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