Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience working in an audit or compliance role, assessing risks, testing controls and recommending process and controls improvements using industry best practices.
- CPA/CIA/CCEP/ RIMS-CRMP or related certification.
- Experienced in risk management, audit or compliance programs in large organizations with a large contingent workforce (e.g., identify and assess risks, design and test controls, and developing risk, control or compliance frameworks).
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage multiple project assignments simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, accepting ownership and accountability of the process and delivering on commitments.
- Ability to take initiative to address problems and make continuous process improvements.
- Excellent communication and people management skills with the ability to work with a wide variety of departments.
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About the job
gTech's Extended Workforce Solutions (xWS) team empowers Product Areas (PAs) to optimize outsourced operations while reducing risks and driving efficiency through the enforcement of Google best practices and policies. We advocate for informed decision-making, ensuring our partners find the right talent in the right locations. Our collaboration across Google leads to streamlined processes, minimizing administrative burdens and optimizing the extended workforce (xW) experience. We ensure Google's policies and guidelines are consistently adhered to.
The Risk and Compliance (R&C) team is responsible for ensuring that Alphabet complies with all laws and regulations applicable to its contingent workforce globally. The team does this by identifying and assessing risks, setting requirements and obligations, designing and assessing controls, and doing this all through appropriate governance to provide visibility and reporting to key stakeholders. R&C also manages supplier risk (third-party risk management) of its contingent workforce by auditing and testing suppliers to expectations and policies, assessing escalations and risk events involving suppliers, and enforcing through consequence management the necessary remedial steps to protect Alphabet against legal, regulatory and operational risk.
Responsibilities
- Assess risks of regulatory requirements as they pertain to Google's contingent workforce including operational, legal, reputation, cultural and financial risks.
- Identify and map controls to regulatory or internal requirements and assess their adequacy in ensuring compliance.
- Identify control gaps and design sound and balanced recommendations to improve compliance in partnership with management and risk partners. Monitor and validate completion of business mitigation plans.
- Provide guidance to process and control owners on how to design effective controls that meet regulatory, policy, and operational requirements, ensuring that the controls are proportionate to the identified risks.
- Collaborate, communicate, educate and influence policy, process and control owners throughout Google and at different levels to improve processes and controls to mitigate compliance risks.