Senior Specialist - Ethics & Compliance

Role Summary

The Senior Specialist - Ethics Compliance ( ECSS ) will be part of the Ethics Compliance team at WSP. The role will be located in WSP India. The ECSS will be supporting the Regional Ethics Compliance Officer - Middle East ( MEECO ), based in Dubai. The ECSS will be have a particular role in seconding the MEECO s additional responsibilities for the Louis Berger operations of WSP, based in Gurgaon, India. The ECSS will work daily alongside the rest of the EC team based in WSP s Noida/Bangalore offices, and remotely with the MEECO. Occasional scopes of work in other regions, or in support of WSP s global EC program, may also be assigned from time to time based on EC program need and structural evolution, and ECSS interests and skillset.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the MEECO in conducting and documenting Due Diligence on Third Parties (clients, partners, subcontractors, consultants and vendors, as well as occasional others such as corporate donation beneficiairies); designing appropriate mitigations to red flags in the findings; maintaining related registers and conducting occasional follow-up audits of the third parties, or the mitigations recommended to work with them.
• Supporting the MEECO in participation in the company s Go-NoGo process of selection of project opportunities, including by conducting research on, preparing Project Integrity Reviews, and keeping related registers, databases and mitigation actions.
• Administering the Global and ME Ethics Compliance Tools, such as:
  • Gifts, Entertainment and Hospitality Register
  • Personal COI Register
  • Organisational COI Registers
• Compiling program data for periodic reports, and supporting in the preparation of these reports to the LBI Management Committee, the Middle-East Executive Committee, the Middle-East Senior Leadership team, and the EMEIA Head and Chief Compliance Officers in the Global program.
• Supporting anticorruption risk assessment activities and ongoing risk reviews, at the direction of the MEECO or EMEIA Head of EC.
• Assisting in the design and delivery of Ethics awareness tools, from general Ethics Moments, Ethics Shares to other presentations, games and exercises at the direction of the MEECO.
• Responding to intakes received from the LBI operations, including by conducting internal investigations, under the supervision and direction of the MEECO; supporting the MEECO in his/her internal investigations in the Middle-East.
• Providing other operational or administrative support functions at the request of the MEECO, or of the Global EC program based on need and structural evolutions and anticipated growth.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor s degree
• 3-5 years of relevant professional experience preferably in Quality Assurance, Legal, Ethics Compliance, Procurement, Audit or Risk
• Significant experience in preparing written reports and documents in English
• Significant experience in conducting desk-top research
• High degree of comfort with using databases, designing reports from existing IT and data management systems
• Proven experience with Office 365 (majorly in MS Outlook, Word, Access and Excel); and with due diligence tools such as Dow Jones, Exiger or other similar tools.

Competencies

• Ability to conduct thorough, targeted and comprehensive searches, document and discuss them in person (via Teams), and produce results in clear and concise reports
• Ability to conduct compliance, audits and assurance activities, and provide clear and concise written findings
• Ability to engage in critical thinking, constructively challenge other reported findings as needed, work through ambiguity, and pay attention to details
• Ability to learn how to navigate different systems and databases efficiently, including using Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and similar tools
• Impeccable ethical standards
• Intellectual curiosity about business operational and reputational risk factors, such as geopolitics, human rights, legal history and the news
• Demonstrated sound judgment and tact in preparing to advise, and advising, a multitude of stakeholders
• Good time management, interpersonal, communication and organisational skills
• Ability to understand and integrate cultural differences and motives and work in cross-cultural team
• Highly self-motivated with the ability to work independently.

Other Notable requirements

• Strong English language skills, written and verbal, are essential.
• Occasional travel may be required for investigations, regional or functional meetings, or at the reasonable discretion of the MEECO.