Senior Compliance Manager

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Description

Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we're the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.

About CDW

CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers around the Globe. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW was founded in 1984 and employs over 15,000 coworkers, with headquarters across the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.

CDW prides itself on "making amazing happen". Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and are grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together.

Job Summary

Senior corporate ethics and compliance professional with responsibility for providing a broad range of expertise and practical, business-minded advice and support to the Ethics & Compliance programme internationally. This position will monitor external developments and best practice methodologies and remain current on proposed and enacted legislation and regulations affecting ethics and compliance programmes for public companies, providing guidance on CDW's international compliance and ethics strategy. Reports to the Global Director, Ethics & Compliance based in the U.S. Market competitive compensation.

Key responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with local and global cross-functional teams to manage, maintain and enhance the regulatory and risk framework for the UK and International entities, including controls, policies and procedures and assessment and monitoring of the same.
• Assist in developing a scalable framework for compliance arrangements relying on smart, consistent, streamlined, technology-supported processes and tools including guidance, templates, checklists, training and controls embedded in IT, ERP and cloud platforms to maximize efficiency and quality of experience for CDW and its customers.
• Support corporate/internal audits and closure of any corrective actions.
• Track changes in regulations and laws and analyse their impact on CDW's products, technologies, and supply chain.
• Collaborate with the global Ethics and Compliance team and other risk and assurance functions to develop, provide guidance on and support for the development and execution of global strategic goals and initiatives.
• Build, cultivate and drive a strong culture of high ethical standards of conduct as an organization, including support of ethics and compliance champions across CDW's international locations.
• Oversee and manage CDW's confidential ethics and compliance hotline for UK and international cases, including working with other key internal stakeholders to: manage investigations; identify key trends and outcomes; develop reporting for CDW's Audit Committee; and raise awareness for reporting with international entities/locations
• Build effective relationships with international business leaders to become their go-to, trusted advisor, providing practical guidance on diverse regulatory and compliance matters within function.
• Work with Legal, Risk, Ethics & Compliance team, other departments and external advisors in order to complete projects in an efficient manner.
• Advise upon supplier onboarding, due diligence and ongoing compliance and review to support CDW business activities and relationships.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Experience managing risk, ethics and compliance matters for a global, public company, with particular experience within EMEA and APAC
• Knowledge of ISO standards and their application e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 20000 and ISO 14001
• Experience with acquisitions, divestitures and similar transactions, including integration of ethics and compliance into M&A diligence and post-close integration activities.
• High degree of technology literacy and familiarity with technology-based compliance systems in particular.
• Experience building, motivating and managing high performance teams.
• Willingness to travel as required (less than 10%).

Essential Attributes

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• Experience in a senior compliance role, with a demonstrable ability to develop, support, and continuously improve a risk-based global ethics and compliance function.
• Proven success in partnering with and effectively counseling internal stakeholders on a wide array of ethics and compliance-related issues, such as anti-corruption, international trade, anti-trust, internal investigations and issues impacting public sector sales.
• Ability to work autonomously, issue-spot and provide incisive, practical and business-focused advice and counsel. Creativity and resourcefulness. Strong problem-solving skills with a pragmatic orientation. Ability to balance strategic and tactical issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to facilitiate workshops and training and to clearly and concisely articulate complex concepts and to interact with stakeholders of all levels, including senior management.
• Proven awareness of risk management and control methodologies and approaches e.g. COSO Framework.
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to seek out and understand granular levels of detail, ambiguity and complexity and to present and promote practical solutions.
• Service-oriented attitude, high standards of ethics and professional integrity, passionate commitment, intellectual curiosity, growth mindset.
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills and the ability to work under pressure, prioritize, and manage workloads to meet deadlines in a challenging and fast-paced environment.
• Team player who welcomes responsibility and engagement.
• Eagerness to build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders and other coworkers to maintain an awareness of developments within the wider business and support opportunities for standardisation across geographies where applicable.
• Ability to influence and engage with senior stakeholders and drive actions to completion.
• Adaptable to changing needs, priorities and deadlines.

More about CDW and your career with us:

At CDW, you'll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes whom you will learn and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self - and your best ideas - to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving - and better solutions for our customers in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

CDW is an equal opportunity employer committed to maintaining a policy of non-discrimination towards all coworkers and applicants for employment in all aspects of employment. CDW does not discriminate against any applicant because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other basis that is prohibited by local employment law, including those protected by the UK Equality Act 2010.

We encourage candidates from all walks of life to apply and join us in our mission of cultivating a culture of belonging, diversity and inclusion for better collaboration, innovation, and business results.

Together, we strive to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong and is empowered to bring their full energy, capabilities and authenticity for coworker and business benefits. Will you be a part of it?

What we offer:

Life Assurance

Competitive Contributory Pension

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced Maternity Pay

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Option to buy additional holiday

Dental Insurance

Season Ticket Loan + additional perks

Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.

What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers.
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you'll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self-and your best ideas-to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving-and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

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