Ethics & Compliance Specialist

Role Summary

Specialist - Ethics & Compliance would support Group Ethics & Compliance team and reports to the Manager - Ethics & Compliance Process Management - India.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the implementation of WSP’s Third-party Due Diligence Tool (“TPDD-Tool”) in all regions.
• Provide administrative support and train regions on usage of the TPDD-Tool.
• Review and assess any findings that the TPDD-Tool gathers for possible red flags.
• Generate reports to report on due diligence activities or check for any gaps.
• Review monitoring alerts for third parties entered in the TPDD-Tool for any possible compliance breaches or potential concerns and red flags.
• Conduct due diligence checks and issue internal due diligence reports by:
  • Running due diligence checks on third parties and their beneficial owners involved in a project to look for breaches and issues in relation to bribery, antitrust, modern slavery, corruption, financial and military sanctions, trade laws and financial crimes;
  • Collating all information revealed in the due diligence check, analyzing and reviewing results to prepare internal due diligence reports;
  • Supporting with the qualitative reviews of the data entered in risk assessments as well as due diligence checks to ensure accuracy, consistency and completeness.
• Support regional Ethics and Compliance Officers with due diligence checks by:
  • Adjudicating and analyzing red flags on clients and business partners;
  • Providing complete internal due diligence reports for specific entities and individuals;
  • Assisting in the day to day handling of the TPDD-Tool;
  • Providing information about possible errors or potential issues in relation to the Business Partners entered in the TPDD-Tool.
• Support regional Ethics and Compliance Officers in the completion of project integrity review forms by:
  • Completing project integrity review forms;
  • Assessing risk associated to a project;
  • Conducting due diligence on all third parties and beneficial owners involved in a project;
  • Preparing project specific enhanced compliance programs.
• Support clients, stakeholders with other Ethics & Compliance activities and initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration or Finance or Law.
• 3 to 5 years of relevant professional experience in a large corporation.
• Good working knowledge of US, UK and EU regulations and other countries’ regulations related to anti-corruption, AML, international sanctions and watchlists, and EDD requirements.
• Good working knowledge of risk assessment and management in high risk countries
• Prior experience in a highly automated environment and/or high degree of comfort with computers and technology.
• Proven experience with MS Outlook, MS Word, and MS Excel

Competencies

• Demonstrated sound judgment, tact, and decision-making ability.
• Good management, interpersonal, communication, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to understand and integrate cultural differences and motives and to lead cross cultural teams.
• Personality: Show distinct strategic and critical thinking, work through ambiguity and pay attention to detail.
• Highly self-motivated with the ability to work independently.

Linguistic requirements

• Strong English language skills, written and verbal, are required
• Knowledge of additional language(s) an asset (e.g. French or Spanish)