Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role as a Compliance Officer. As a Compliance Officer, you will be responsible for ensuring our business operations, policies, and procedures comply with regulatory requirements and industry standards. You will be responsible for conducting internal audits, identifying areas of improvement, providing solutions to maintain compliance, and communicating compliance requirements to internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure operations are compliant with local and national laws, contractual and shareholder obligations and best practices.
• Undertake legal and regulatory research and assess and evaluate the impact of changes in applicable legislation and international best practices.
• Coordinate a program of training and capacity-building activities for employees across, covering all key areas of compliance policy and practice.
• Support the development and implementation of relevant policies, processes, and procedures, and maintain an appropriate review cycle.
• Identify, understand, and escalate compliance risk events/issues in a timely manner and focus on fixing the root causes of the issues.
• Manage the compliance tools such as the compliance obligations register, compliance training calendar, compliance incident register, and compliance risk register.
• Create and maintain documentation that demonstrates evidence of legal and regulatory compliance.
• Support in regulatory compliance including the timely preparation and submission of regulatory filings such as annual returns or timely response to regulator circular.
• Develop, implement, and maintain compliance policies, procedures, and controls to address regulatory obligations and minimize compliance risks.
• Review Company process/operational manuals and systems to ensure that are regularly updated to meet the set regulations, policies, and all other requirements such as mandates, escalations, controls, etc. are in place and aligned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Law or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a similar role
• Experience in the paper packaging industry is a plus
• Compliance Management and Regulatory Compliance skills
• Analytical Skills, including experience conducting audits and analyzing data
• Finance skills, including understanding of financial regulations and financial statement analysis
• Fluency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)