• Ensure the company complies with its outside regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Effectively communicates the company’s key ethics principles and compliance regulations.
• Work with business units to ensure appropriate contingency plans are in place that set guidelines on how to respond to a possible compliance breach.
• Manage process to maintain HR policies in compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations.
• Represent HR in investigation, compliant and disciplinary cases. In an event of a regulatory breach occurring, it is important for the compliance officer to have appropriate disciplinary measures in place to avoid a future recurrence.
• Design or update internal policies to mitigate the risk of the company breaking laws and regulations and lead internal audits of procedures.
• Maintain the department’s reputation in the community and establish a baseline for future improvement for the function.