Ethics and Compliance Director

Location

Milwaukee, WI | United States

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Company Description

About Veolia North America

A subsidiary of Veolia Group, Veolia North America (VNA) offers a full spectrum of water, waste and energy management services, including water, and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. VNA helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education, and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Veolia North America has approximately 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across the continent. Please visit our website 

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BENEFITS

Veolia's comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental and vision insurance. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement. Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement. 

Position Purpose: 

The Corporate Ethics and Compliance Director reports directly to the VP, Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”). This position requires an ability to work across diverse internal and external stakeholder groups, and requires a candidate with strong analytical, management, and communication skills.

The Compliance Department globally is tasked with enhancing the culture of ethics and compliance within the Veolia Group, protecting the Group from any risk related to non-compliance, and preventing and detecting violations in a wide range of matters. Headquartered in France, the Veolia Group is subject to the requirements of France’s Sapin II Law administered by the French Anti-Corruption Agency. The Corporate Ethics and Compliance Director will work with the CCO to ensure that these tasks are performed across Veolia North America consistent with Sapin II and other applicable laws, including in its relations with clients, partners, and other third parties, by implementing and administering policies, training courses, and related tools. 

Primary Duties/Responsibilities:

• Culture. Enhance culture of compliance within VNA and with clients, partners, third parties, and suppliers.
• Compliance Program Management. Work with the company’s various business units and support functions to implement, interpret, and continually improve VNA’s compliance policies, procedures, tracking, and reporting. Identify areas of weakness in the Compliance Program and develop improvements.
• Action Plans. Maintain and implement action plans for addressing any weaknesses in the Compliance Program identified during the Group-wide self-assessment process and/or risk mapping process.
• Investigations. Review employee claims through the local whistleblower system. Advise and assist on the Compliance team’s investigation planning, management, and execution with respect to potential compliance violations. When required, conduct site visits, interviews and prepare reports.
• Group Reporting. Manage elements of VNA’s tracking and reporting obligations to Group headquarters. Liaise with business teams to ensure that their practices are compliant and that they are providing accurate data for reporting. Maintain organized records of reportable data throughout the year.
• Communication. Communicate promptly and clearly with stakeholders in different regions and countries.
• Coordination; Management. Coordinate with other Compliance team members globally and assist in various ad hoc projects as necessary. Manage the Corporate Ethics and Compliance Manager in the performance of his/her duties.
• Other duties as assigned by the CCO.

Qualifications

Education/Experience/Background:

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• A graduate degree may be substituted for years of relevant experience.
• Relevant experience may include corporate compliance, legal, risk management, procurement, human resources, internal control.
• Experience managing at least one direct report.
• Familiarity with data protection concepts a plus, but not required.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Team player with excellent interpersonal, written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Ability to organize, prioritize and execute on numerous, sometimes competing priorities.
• Ability to understand and interpret corporate policies, laws, and regulations.
• Comfort making reasoned decisions on issues that are not black and white.
• Willingness to be a culture change agent.
• Respect for confidentiality and ability to manage confidential information with discretion.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Attention to detail.
• Responsiveness
• Word processing, Google Slides or PowerPoint, Google Sheets or Excel.

Physical Requirements:

Hybrid schedule available. Fast paced work environment involving collaboration with management, sales, business development and other staff.

This job description is a general description of essential job functions. It is not intended as an employment contract, nor is it intended to describe all duties someone in this position may perform. All employees are expected to perform tasks as assigned by supervisory personnel, regardless of job title or routine job duties.

Additional Information

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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