Legal / Ethics & Compliance Officer - International ...

You oversee and conduct internal audits and controls to ensure compliance with ethics, data protection, and corporate governance programs across all entities, collaborating with relevant officers.

As one of the world's largest engineering consultancy companies and with more than 150 years of experience, our client is able to offer to its customers multidisciplinary solutions in energy, water and infrastructure. Its broad range of expertise extends across Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East and Latin America, and allows to rise to our clients' most demanding challenges with the same high-quality engineering and consulting services no matter where their projects are. Our client is part of a bigger Group, a global energy company and leading provider of electricity, natural gas and energy services.

• You are in charge of conducting internal controls and audits to verify the implementation of the compliance programs in all our entities worldwide related to ethics (including anti corruption / human rights), data protection and corporate governance;
• You interact with the different entity ethics, legal and data protection officers/managers to organize, conduct and follow up on the internal controls and audits;
• You prepare internal control and audit reports with action plans and follow up on implementation of the actions;
• You contribute to the ISO 37001 audit and certification process; follow up of action plans to address non-conformities and observations;
• You identify compliance and internal control deficiencies, recommend actions to rectify, implement if applicable and follow up these actions;
• You communicate findings and recommendations to improve the compliance programs and internal processes to address risks, determine root causes, propose an action plans for remediation in a timely manner, implement actions if applicable and track findings through resolution;
• You follow up compliance actions, consolidating data and producing reports;
• You develop and manage working relationships with key stakeholders;
• You propose an annually internal control and audit program of processes and controls reviews, made to give reasonable assurance of the quality of the self-assessments made by the Business Process Owners (BPOs);

Internal Interfaces

• Internal Control and Audit to whom you will report functionally;
• Group's Internal Control and Internal Audit functional lines;
• Entity and group compliance teams;
• Managers, business and support line teams;
• ICCs (Internal Control Coordinators), BPOs (Business Process Owners) and/or other internal control representatives within our client's Business Areas;
• Corporate Risk Officer;
• Purchasing Officer;
• Quality.

External Interfaces

• External auditors.

• Master Degree in Law
• > 5 years' experience in a similar function;
• Solid understanding and experience with internal control frameworks and/or process mapping and risk management;
• Relevant professional certification is a plus;
• Fluent in English;
• You have an excellent command of office tools (MS Office 365) and you are particularly familiar with tasks relating to Excel (spreadsheet preparation and management), SharePoint and SAP;
• Good knowledge and experience on the ISO 37001 and ISO 19011 standards is a plus;
• Your strong organization skills, high degree of flexibility, and critical mindset are key for success;
• You are assertive and defend firmly and clearly your point of view in case of differences of opinion;
• You have a strong analytical mind-set, you are accurate and rigorous;
• You are a very good communicator (both written and oral), dynamic, a team player, and you integrate easily in multidisciplinary teams;
• You are 'solutions' oriented, prepared to take initiatives, and striving for continuous improvement and optimization;
• Experience and interest for how technology and systems can support internal control effectiveness and efficiency is a plus;
• Although not a requirement, you have ideally some knowledge of the Engineering and/or Services business in an international environment;
• Willingness to travel regularly inside and outside Europe.

• An interesting and varied job in an international environment with a good work/life balance;
• A stable work environment where professional growth and development are stimulated
• An attractive compensation package with fringe benefits;
• A permanent contract to ensure the roles offered are in accordance with your skills, interests, career goals and lifestyle.

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